What a magnificent breakthrough! I wonder what Helen Keller and Richard
Kinney would think of this?
Man I wish more were being done in that regards.
Congratulations, Roger!
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
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From: "adaptive information systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] blind-deaf and qwerty keyboard and braillenote pk!
Hi Lisa Kozlik and folks,
I just received my braillenote pk yesterday and it is awesome!!
I can't believe the size and power it has and ease of use!
Lisa, It works!
I had to try out the ability of attaching a regular qwerty ps2 keyboard to
the brailenote using the usb to ps2 adaptor cable, and it works!
I went to the options menu and keyboard settings and turned on computer
braille and also turned on keyboard words and spell, so that the qwerty
ps2 keyboard would work with the braillenote pk and also speak every
letter that is typed and also speak the word when the space bar is pressed
after the word is typed.
What this means for those who haven't been wondering like Lisa and I for
the past many months, is for a deaf-blind person they now have a very
easy way of one on one communications with the sighted/hearing world!
What I did was connect the ps2 qwerty keyboard to the braillenote pk and
opened up a new word document, which is in text format, so no contracted
braille, but all computer braille, and typed in a question on the perkins
keyboard on the brailenote pk and you could hear and see on the braille
display what i had typed.
now I typed on the qwerty ps2 keyboard my answer and it was spoken and
also showed up on the braile display using the brailenote pk.
This is Great! I mean this is great!
Not only now can the braillenote pk be used as a two way communication
device for sighted/hearing person communicating with a blind/deaf person,
but everything that both parties type is recorded in a text document on
the braillenote pk and you can save it and come back later to review what
was said, but also back up your memory with hard copy proof of what was
said!
I can see this being used in the classroom of universities with a
captionist sitting next to the blind/deaf person typing in what is said in
the lecture room the blind/deaf person can then write immediately
questions or ask for clarification of what was said back to the
captionist.
Of course, the captionist would have a ear bud plugged in to the earphone
jack on the brailenote pk.
There are so many options and opertunities that this device can and will
be use to assist the blind/deaf person in knowing what is goingn on around
them instantly!
Better yet, is I bought a bluetooth qwerty keyboard in anticipation that
this would work and Larry Lewis and Marlaina Lieberg along with Lisa
Kozlik and others voices were finally heard by a hard working careing
vender of adaptive products, like Pulse Data, that there dreams of a two
way communication device for the blind/deaf person, came to fulfillment
and is now reality in the BraileNote PK
You take that blutooth qwerty keyboard and the BrailleNote PK and go to
options, connectivity, bluetooth, turn bluetooth on, search for devices
yes, press enter and it will search for bluetooth devices and come back
with a list and if you have your bluetooth keyboard on with batteries it
will be in the list then press enter and now you can type on the
bluetooth qwerty keyboard and see it appear magically on the braillenote
pk braille display and then you can type on the perkings keyboard ont
ehbrailenote pk and it wil be spoken and also show up on the braille
display. I am typing this email now, while having my braillenote pk in my
office with me, and the bluetooth keyboard is in two rooms down and I am
having someone type on it and it is showing up on my brailenote pk.
you could also buy a small powered fm transmitter and have your captionist
wear a small fm radio tuned into that frequency and then sit further apart
and communicate between each other. C-Crane sells these devices for not
much money. You can see my mind just grasping new ideas for this new
wonderful device.
The person could be sitting next to or behind or in front of, or just
about anywhere with in 30 feet of the person with the braillenote pk
and no cords attached at all.
Many of us out here thank you very very much.
Wow! Way to go Pulse Data!
Roger Behm
Adaptive Information Systems
We Make Technology Accessable to the Vision impaired and Reading Disabled
Roger A. Behm, president
1611 clover Lane
Janesville WI 53545-1388
voice: (608) 758-0933
Fax: (608) 758-7898
Toll Free: (877) 792-4768
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page: www.adaptiveinformation.org
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