Also, when I am saying things like having a dedicated book reader, I want my book reader's speech engine to have clean crisp diction which pronounces all sounds as correctly as possible. If making it also possible to play music on the device is detracting from that speech engine diction, I don't want to play music on the device. I don't want to continue to listen to Baboowa for Barbara and Octoboo for October. That is what I mean by the possibility of needing to dedicate the device to book reading only. If making it possible to play music takes valuable memory away from cleaning up that speech engine, cleaning up the sound level discrepancy between the TTS and recorded material, then, toss out the music. I'll do something else about my music when I want to.
That's just one old lady's opinion for whatever it's worth. Dianne -----Original Message----- From: Missy Hoppe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:40 PM To: Booksense Support Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Re: book sense requesting opinions I totally agree with you on this. I'd much rather have the best reading device possible, and to me, the booksense is that player. Yes, I wish the volume on nls and RFBD books could be made louder, but apart from that, I have absolutely no complaints with my booksense. I've never put any music into the booksense, and have no plans to ever do so. When I'm on the go, I'm most likely going to want to hear a book anyway, and if I really want music, I could use the radio on the booksense, or listen to a song on my cell phone. Missy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]> To: "'EVAN REESE'" <[email protected]>; "'GW-micro'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 4:59 PM Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] Re: book sense requesting opinions >From a theoretical standpoint, I don't know how these book readers can be expected to be music players as well. I think we are all expecting far too much of this one player, and I wou8ld rather have memory and resources directed simply to book reading as in Book Share books with the TTS system or the recorded book features. I'lll go else where for music. I know people are trying to carry less, but why do we have to carry all aspects of entertainment with us at all times anyway? Here, I just want the best book reader I can have! Music, which is also important to me, I'll get from a player which makes music its priority because I want the best I can hear when I listen to music as well. My music player, chances are, isn't going to be a good book reader. Dianne -----Original Message----- From: EVAN REESE [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 5:07 PM To: GW-micro Subject: [GW-Booksense] Re: book sense requesting opinions I've been reading RFB&D books on my Book Sense Standard model since support was added in January. It works great. The only two minor things are that for books beyond a certain length,, because they design their books to fit on CD's, more than one folder is used, one for each CD of the book; so you can't navigate throughout a large book the way you can with an NLS book. Also, you need to actually go into the folder where each RFB&D book is stored before you can play it. Other than those minor issues, it really works very well. (I think they could notch up the top reading speed a bit, too, but it's fine for me most of the time. And many people have asked for a bit more volume for NLS and RFB&D books. This can be an issue for some books when using it on speakers, but I tend to use headphones most of the time, so while there are occasions when I would like some more volume, it's not a major problem for me.) I think the Book Sense has some weaknesses as a portable music player, although I still use it quite a bit for that as well. But if your main interest is in audio books, particularly RFB&D, I don't think you can go wrong. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:49 PM Subject: book sense requesting opinions > Howdy folks, > I've been considering purchasing a digital book reader. I am wary of > Humanware products for a couple of reasons, which I don't feel it > necessary to go into here. I was thinking of purchasing a book sense, > since I own several GW Micro products and have been happy with just > about all of them. I have Window-Eyes, a Voice sense, and a Sync > Braille. The Voice Sense I don't really use because it doesn't meet all > of my portable computing needs, but I've played with it anyway and its a > nice device in spite of that. > > I need something that is portable and can read rfb&d (this is an > absolute requirement, not a maybe). I see from the web site that the > book sense products now do support RFB&D. Do all models support that? > And can anyone tell me there experiences using this product? I need to > make my dicision soon, so any feedback any of you can give on the book > sense line of products would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > -- > They say god has always been. Linux and I will now disprove that: > $ ar m God > ar: creating God > There you have it. God was created by the ar program. Good news is, God > really does exist! > Joseph C. Lininger, <[email protected]> > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. 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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 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
