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 From: nicolas.lagace at humanware.com
To: repcodds at aol.com
Sent: 3/17/2009  4:20:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: HumanWare Unveils Victor Reader  Stream 3.0


HUMANWARE UNVEILS VICTOR READER STREAM 3.0

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Los  Angeles California, March 17, 2009 -- Today at the annual CSUN 
technology  conference in Los Angeles, HumanWare announced the latest version of its  
popular Victor Reader Stream DAISY NISO book player, MP3 player, and voice  
recorder. The latest release of software for the Stream is version 3.0. It is  a 
free upgrade software for the tens of thousands of users who now enjoy their  
Stream worldwide.

Version 3.0 is a major release packed with new  features that continue to 
distinguish the Stream as the industry leader among  pocket size accessible 
players. Version 3.0 responds to popular requests  received from many Stream 
customers. New features include:

•  Multi-level bookshelf navigation for Other Books, Podcasts, and Text. Now 
you  can optionally organize these bookshelves into multiple levels of folders 
and  navigate at those levels.
• Multi-level folder navigation within Music  files. For example, now you 
could choose to organize your music by levels such  as genre, artist, and album 
and navigate at those levels to more quickly find  your desired music.
• Further you can now instantly create temporary  playlists of any subset of 
your music collection and limit Random play to only  that portion of your 
music.
• Moreover, you can turn random play on or off  with a single key press like 
many commercial MP3 players. 
• Text Search.  Yes, now you can enter words to search for in your text files 
or text-only  DAISY books.
• Bookmark alert. You can enable an optional bookmark alert  feature to 
notify you when you are playing a book and pass over a previously  bookmarked 
position. It will even automatically announce your audio  bookmarks.
• Two text-to-speech voices. The English version of Stream 3.0  will now 
include both a male and female text-to-speech voice.
• A 30 minute  Time Jump feature and many other usability improvements have 
been  added.


"With the increasing use of 8gb, 16, and even 32gb storage  cards, users are 
managing ever increasing amounts of data on their Stream",  says Gerry 
Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager. "With thousands of music  files and 
hundreds of podcasts or text files they have asked us to provide  more efficient 
navigation and version 3 delivers just that."

Says  Chevalier, "The improved navigation as well as the bookmark alert, text 
search  and other usability improvements in Stream 3.0 renews HumanWare's 
commitment  to our Stream customers that we would continue to enhance the Stream 
over time  to maximize their Stream investment."

And there's more. HumanWare is  pleased to announce that Stream 3.0 will also 
be accompanied by a completely  new-look Stream Companion software. The new 
Stream Companion 3.0 Windows  software has a completely new menu driven 
interface, support for the new  Bookshare zip format, and more.

HumanWare expects to have both the  Stream 3.0 and Companion 3.0 available 
for free download before the end of  March. The software will be made available 
on the Stream Support Page  
(http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/support/victor_reader_stream). To  receive  an email announcement for this release and stay 
informed on  future Stream activities be sure to Register to the Stream Newswire  
(http://www.humanware.com/en-canada/products/blindness/dtb_players/compact_mod
els/stream_news).


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Contact:

USA:  1 800 722-3393 or 925 680-7100

UK/Europe: +44 1933 415 800  

Canada: 1 888 723-7273 or +1 450 463 1717

Australia/Asia: +61 2  9686 2600

New Zealand:  +64 3 384 4555



Media  contact:

HumanWare
Nicolas Lagace
Tel.: (450) 463-1717   
E-mail:  nicolas.lagace at humanware.com



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