Hello Friends The first hundred pieces of Buddy are here.
The cost of the buddy player after tax is Rs. 4500. Key features include very small size, full and proper DAISY book navigation features, many special features for music listening including various equaliser presets and really good output of music on headphones and amplifiers. Voice note recording and long recording mode. Very good quality of recordings. Three different modes of recording qualities. Internal microphone is good for close voice recordings where as external microphones can be attached for high quality recordings. It has jacks for line-in, microphone and headphones. Changing from USB from computer and also from mains electrisity. The internal speaker is little week thus is usable only in quite rooms. There will be an option of taking extre speaker woth 350 which would not require any additional power and will give loud voice for listening. Earphones are provided with the unit. Buddy has FM radio with auto tune channels etc. The unit currently doesn't have TTS thus you will not be able to read text files directly on the unit but you can always convert text files to audio files before transfering them to the Buddy. Buddy will support SD Card. It has been tested with 16 GB card although documentation says it would support 32 GB card. It has wide colour screen and content of table of contents of DAISY books are shown on the screen. Future upgrades to firmware will support full display of text on the screen. Battery back up is of 15 hours on full charge and charging takes about 2 to 3 hours. People who are interested to participate in the first lot users will get the player at the cost of 4300 instead of 4500. Units are replacable if any faults are found int eh players. This is one of the true Indian development and one of the first product of its kind developed in India itself. Thus be a part of this development and contribute to make this product the best in the world. Being Indian product, it has the potential of catering to our needs and put our needs at top priority. For example, customisation to Indian languages is something which will be done as soon as English version has been accepted by the users. The development team is all set to provide support even to specific books that might be having problems in playing properly on this player. Thus, this is the right time to point out if you need any special features or if you feel any improvements are required in any of its features. Interested persons may get in touch with i...@saksham.org to get this fully accessible DAISY book player and digital recorder. Thanks Dipendra Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
