Hi Michael, I agree THAT all daisy recordings are different, which is why I'm just suggesting more user options. When one wants to produce their own titles, I produce my own recorded books, phrases are very unpredictable. I too believe the 1 and 10 minute time jumps are very useful and will welcome them greatly. I would just like to have something more constant in a shorter time than the 1 minute time jump, or something as unpredictable as a random phrase marker. What I hate about RFBD books is that RFBD is stupidly not taking advantage of all daisy has to offer. They only allow for level 1 chapter and page navigation. If a reader accidentally presses the back or forwards keys, they will move an entire page. Believe me, this will drive you insane when you get use to a book you produced with quick and predictable navigation then have to use an RFBD book and finding yourself having to manually forward and rewind just to try to find your place once again--they are wasting the Daisy navigation features and the reader's time.
I'm not asking for 2 or 5 second time jumps, although letting the reader adjust time jumps would be a great feature satisfying all readers, I'm just asking for 10 seconds. In other words, 10, 1 minute and 10 minute time jumps will provide lots more flexibility for the most projects. For example, in the words of Window Eyes GW Micro, I feel Freedom Scientific comes up with lots of "frilly features," and though I agree that lots of the jaws features are useless, I believe an added benefit of the Fs mentality is to allow for the most flexibility as possible resulting in many more application uses--Assuming the frilly features work properly. Again, I'm anticipating great new features in the new PTR1 update and will suspend final judgment till then. I'm just making these suggestions because I often pause while I'm reading and think: "Wouldn't it be neat if the PTR1 could..." J Garcia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "J Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: Re: 1 minute rewind interval > Hello J, > > I think that the ability to jump by one and ten minute increments is > very useful. Let's suppose, somebody records something on the PC. The > stuff is then converted to MP3, and the producer notes the times, where > he wants to set Daisy markers, page markers, headings etc. One can then > import this MP3 file into the PRS, burn a CD, jump to the noted time > stamps and set the Daisy markers. > > Being able to go back three, five or ten seconds would be nice. However, > if the phrase markers are set correctly in a Daisy book, nothing can > even come close to phrase navigation. If I do not understand something > in a Daisy title, I just press the back key once or twice and the last > sentence or so is repeated. This does not work, if the phrases are one > or two minutes long as it is with some talking books. For MP3 CDs, the > PTR1 and the PTN1 can already do what you want: If you press the back > key, while listening to an MP3 or an Audio CD the machine jumps back > aproximately three seconds. So, it is very easy to go back ten seconds > on an MP3 or audio CD with the Plextalks. Are the phrases in your titles > too long to use phrase navigation? > > <*** Michael Lang ***> > > You wrote: > > > Hi all and Mr. Nemoto in particular, > > > If you read the text below, which I took from the new features page on the > > plextalk website, you will see that they are adding a 1 minute time jump > > navigation feature. I believe the user will be able to adjust this from 1 > > minute to 10 minute intervals. If you ask me, and I feel many of you will > > agree, 1 minute is an awful lot of time when wanting to quickly reread the > > last few words of your daisy book. For example, when reading complex > > material that one would like to quickly review again, or listen to over and > > over until comprehension is complete, having to wait an entire minute until > > you are at the phrase of audio you want to listen to once again is a very > > long time to wait. In other words, I might as well simply press and hold the > > rewind button and wait till the mechanism takes enough time to engage, which > > will probably be faster than waiting 1 minute until I can hear my desired > > text again. It almost seems useless to be able to jump an entire minute back > > when one can hear the last phrase much faster by pressing the back key and > > waiting for the mechanism to engage. Those of you who also use the Visuaide > > Victor ReaderSoft software know that when pressing the letter r for rewind, > > you have to wait for what seems like an eternity for the software to catch > > up to the text you wanted to reread. I just ran a little test and it seems > > as though the Victor ReaderSoft rewinds by increments of 25 seconds, but it > > seems like an eternity to catch up where you left off. I understand that 1 > > minute is much better than nothing, but I'm suggesting that, if not too > > late, maybe Plextor can include an additional time jump increment of 10 > > seconds. We will then be able to choose from 10 seconds, 1 minute, or 10 > > minutes. This would make reading very easy, quick, and a great joy. Quickly > > rewinding 10 seconds is comparable to a sighted person shifting their eyes > > back a few sentences and rereading something they did not understand. I > > don't know the hardware issues or firmware code complexities involved in > > this, but jumping forward and backwards just a few seconds when editing text > > or simply rereading complex text sounds like a great way to read and enjoy > > all types of books. > > > From text of upcoming features: > > Time Jump Navigation Feature Added > > The time jump option is added in the navigation menu. First press the 2 or 8 > > key until you hear the "time". Then each press of the 4 or 6 key will cause > > a jump of one minute, and press and hold 2 or 8 key to move by 10 minutes. > > > J Garcia > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
