Hi. First, you're not going to be able to get the spelling of a word in an NLS book. NLS books are recorded, not read from text by the built-in speech synthesizer.
When you are reading a book from Bookshare or another source of books in text format, the text is there to be spelled out, moved through by sentence and paragraph and so forth. When reading an NLS book, you are listening to a recording. There is no associated file containing text to search, move through by anything but time increments or spell out. The information is not in the audio file. This can be a little confusing, since both are "Daisy" files. But all Daisy is is a way of marking sections in a file so a Daisy player can navigate through them. Some Daisy files are recorded. Some are text. A few sources provide both recorded and text files which can be coordinated so you can go back and forth between the audio portion and the text. NLS Daisy books, however, only have an audio component. As for the other problem you've had, I wonder if you might be doing something I did the first time or two I tried to use the time jump feature. I set the interval to skip using the "Time Interval" option, but then forgot to use the down-arrow to move back to the menu item which is just called "Time". So when I was still sitting on the "Time Interval" menu option, the left and right arrows moved me through the possible selections for that setting-- i.e. 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute and so on. It is necessary to first use the left and right arrows to select the amount of time to skip and then use the down arrow to move back to the "Time" option. After that, the left and right arrows skip backward and forward by the amount you have selected. If that's not what's happening, I'll have to leave it to someone else to trouble-shoot for you. Hope that helps. --Carla Carla Campbell [email protected] httP://www.quadrussage.com -----Original Message----- From: qubit [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GW-Booksense] navigating an nls book Hi all -- I am having trouble getting my booksense to navigate an nls book. What I was hoping was that I would be able to do things like skip back and reread an increment, and hopefully even stop and spell a word. Well, I find nothing on the booksense that supports spelling, but I followed the instruction for use of the arrow keys to choose an increment (up/down arrows) and skip forward or back using the left and right arrows. It fails completely on one of my books. I swear I got it to work on the first book I read, but when I pause in my current book and set the increment to 5 seconds, then hit the left arrow to jump backward that amount, it is doing nothing -- in fact, left and right arrow is simply mimicking what the up/down arrows are supposed to do, and the reading keeps continuing no matter what I do (except pause). Can anyone make a suggestion? Thanks -- I'm loving reading, but annoyed at a few nits. --le 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. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv 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. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
