How can you reject the speech of the BN? It is better than most products I
have seen. Try other notakers' voices before saying the BN's voice must
change.
Mike the star trek guy
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From: "Mary Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Future of BrailleNote hardware
The problem with telling people who want modern hardware to get a PK is
that there is no voice only equivalent to the pk. Many people don't have
the serious money it will cost to buy a pk. Plus, there is also no
qwerty variant, probably because the unit is too small to house a decent
qwerty keyboard. I feel that the critique of the outdated port compliment
of the bn./vn is right on point, as is the critique of the slow processor.
People who have gotten the pk have all commented on how much faster the
gps application runs on the pk as compared with the bn/vn. I appreciate
Pulse Data/Humanware's commitment to customers in trying to
squeeze every bit of useful life out of the old hardware before moving on.
But in this case, I as someone who would seriously consider the product,
but for its age and the fact that there is no voice only equivalent in
the more modern product, feel that its time for a new, modern replacement
for the venerable bn/vn platform. I can't afford to lay out several
thousands of dollars for the braille display part of this technology. mUch
as I
acknowledge that it would be good to have, its quite simply too expensive
for me to justify that purchase. I'd also like to see an alternative to
the keynote speech offered in a future version, but only if such an
offering
didn't introduce sluggishness into the unit's operation.
Mary
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