Curtis, Thanks for the info. Yes, the Stream goes to level 10. I typically listen at level 7, which is about 2.4X, though I suppose I could live at level 4 or 2X. It is good the levels match those of the Stream. I wonder, however, why it is not planned for the Booksense to be able to do faster speeds. For some Podcasts especially, where the regular speech is so slow, it is a great feature to be able to speed it up.
It sounds as if you have listened to both devices; at level 4, is the quality of the Booksense's algorithms at least equal to (or better than) the Stream? I want to make sure that they are not worse. Thanks, Suleyman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <[email protected]> To: "Suleyman Gokyigit" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Questions from a Perspective Buyer I will answer question 2, about speeding up. It will be equivocal to the Streams first 4 levels, or up to twice as fast which is number 4. No faster than that in it's present development. If you are familiar with the Stream at level 4, then you've heard the book sense at it's level 4. The Stream goes to level 10 I believe? Curtis Delzer. HS. At Monday 11/9/2009 12:08 AM, Suleyman Gokyigit wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I am a current VictorReader Stream user and am looking at purchasing a >Booksense; however, I have two questions (I will probably have more in the >future) that I cannot seem to find definite answers for. > >First, I just saw today some discussions on this mailing list regarding the >information that is presented when pressing the 0 key while playing a file. >Specifically, it was stated by several users that when listening to an >Audible file, pressing the 0 key does not tell you the total time of the >file. I wanted to get confirmation on this because while listening to >multiple demos and podcasts of the Booksense, the 0 key always presented >the >total time of an Audible file (I just went back and checked a couple >podcasts to confirm). So when I saw users saying that it is not reported, >this is giving me pause, as this is very important information, and I am >wondering what has changed to suddenly make the unit not report this >information. > >Second, I have read that the Booksense does not speed up audio files up as >much as the Victor (I am referring to recorded books such as Audible or >NLS, >not TTS here), but I have not seen any information regarding exactly how >much faster the Booksense can play the file. I am aware it can increase up >to 4 levels (+1, +2, +3, and +4), but this is not very meaningful since it >does not indicate how fast each of these settings are. Does it speed up by >25%? 50%? 100%? Specifically, I like to listen to podcasts and other >audio at exactly double (2x) normal speed. Can the Booksense play this >fast? I know the Victor can go faster than even 2x, but I don't need it to >be that fast, but if the Booksense cannot speed up to at least 2x, I will >not be purchasing it. > >Many thanks for anyone who is willing to address the above two questions. > > >Suleyman > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour >message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please >consider sending your message to [email protected] so the >entire list will receive it. > >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the >message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the message.
