Yes, you can turn down the volume, but wouldn't that increase the time needed to do the discharge? I'd think that the amount of power needed to drive the speaker or headphones would be greater at a higher volume and thus drain the battery faster.
Don On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:14:25 -0400, Bruce Alexander wrote: Terry: You can do any of the things you suggest, or all, it doesn't matter. You also can turn the volume on your BN down by with the enter/dot 1, (BT), until it is at it's softest point. To reach the Support Information Mode, (again BT, sorry), go ti the options menu, space-O, then space with I to support information, then f. HTH: Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] An amusing bit of BN trivia > Hi Peggy > Can you give me the steps and how do you do this in a small apartment? > Could I plug the head set in and time it or put it in a drawer. > Thanks for your help. > Terry Powers > -----Original Message----- > From: Peggy Kern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Braillenote] An amusing bit of BN trivia > Hi, guys. I got a chuckle out of this, so thought I'd share it. Yesterday > I was re-calibrating my BN's battery, using that wonderful message, "I'm > talking until my battery goes flat. This repetition is enough to drive me > crazy. How about you?" My husband, being sighted, doesn't really focus on > what speech synthesizers say, because he doesn't need to. Now granted, he > was in a different room than the BN (as was I), but what he decided he > heard my BN saying was, "I bought you an international pet. Would you like > to give it a name? Idaho." <lol> It's funny how to us it's so obvious > what it's saying, but to those who aren't synthesizer literate, it's > not. <grin> > Peggy > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac > MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
