Hi. I am a new user of the Booksense, just having purchased it
last week. I'm really impressed with the Booksense. It's a
great product despite some quirks which I would love to see dealt
with in future versions. I was a Victor READER Stream user from
it's release until last week. I'm afraid I changed products as
the Booksense has much better speech (I find Kate great to listen
to), and I love the ability to be able to read word documents
without converting them.
I must admit, that although Kate is great to listen to, someone
at whichever company produces the Kate and Paul voices must have
quite a strange sense of humour. The first time I heard Kate and
Paul were when they shipped with the Kurzweil reading system. I
was reading a Harry Potter book at the time and was baffled by
hearing the phrase "he's not busy Weassley" on regular occasions.
It transpired that whenever Kate came to the word Charlie, she
pronounced it as "he's not busy"!
Now, whenever Kate comes across the word "interest" he says
"inpest" and so on with other similar words. Clothing becomes
"clotheb" and there are others of a similar nature. It's not
just a quirk in her speech algorythms, I think, as she pronounces
most words excellently. I'm sure such weird word pronunciations
have somehow been deliberately introduced! I'm not blaming anyone
of course, but I would love to see these off-the-wall
pronunciations corrected in future. I accept that she is always
going to mispronounce some words, but words such as interest
really aren't difficult.
I truly wish the booksense was supplied with a case with a belt
clip. I don't like having it hanging around my neck and I don't
tend to wear clothing with pockets. I understand GWMICRO make
such a case but it's not available in the UK which is a real
shame.
Having said all the above, it's a great product and so I just
wanted to pass on my thanks to all at Gwmicro and Himms for all
their work on making this possibly the top of my list of must
have gadgets at present.
With best regards.
Donna Slater.
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