RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued.
John: How would I resolve that problem? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon C. Pierson Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:38 PM To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Subject: RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued. Hi Jim, Does SF think perhaps that your mp3 plugin's not registered? It's a shot in the dark and usually it'd nag you but I've seen it work both ways where rather then teling you that you had exceeded your encoding limit and bla bla bla, it just won't let you set custom options for saving an mp3 file. Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Noseworthy Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:30 PM To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Subject: RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued. Hi Again: The highest bit rate I can choose is 128. I must have an encoder problem. Cheers. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued.
If the plugin's not registered you should have a button which allows you to enter a code but it only appears when you choose the custom option. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Noseworthy Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:41 AM To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Subject: RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued. John: How would I resolve that problem? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon C. Pierson Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:38 PM To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Subject: RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued. Hi Jim, Does SF think perhaps that your mp3 plugin's not registered? It's a shot in the dark and usually it'd nag you but I've seen it work both ways where rather then teling you that you had exceeded your encoding limit and bla bla bla, it just won't let you set custom options for saving an mp3 file. Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Noseworthy Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:30 PM To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Subject: RE: SoundForge V8.0 problem continued. Hi Again: The highest bit rate I can choose is 128. I must have an encoder problem. Cheers. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
library in Windows MediaPlayer
Hi, listers, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add to my library in Windows MediaPlayer version 11. I am pointing at a folder of .mp3 files but I can't seem to get the files in a list or if I am, I can't find the list. Can anyone help me to either properly select a folder and/or get a list of my music files? I am also using System Access from Serotek for my screen reader. Thanks aLLEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ederol R09
Hello, when I use my Ederol R09, there is a hiss, which I want to get rid of. How can I make it so that when I record, I do not get that hiss? Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Batch file renamer
I tried renamer. It got the job done for me where Snapstream generates bad names of the form show title-(short description)-year-month-day.mpg. A few times, I used the ability to use variables in renamer to break it down, eliminating the short description, and could change to month-day-year format, which could give me chronological playback as long as months from different years don't duplicate. There's some issues with accessibility with renamer, but it got the job done as long as there weren't duplicates, where I'd want to add -1, -2, etc before the extension. - Original Message - From: Jon C. Pierson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:41 PM Subject: RE: Batch file renamer I use multiren (multiple file renamer) which was a PC Magazine shareware hit a few years back. It's good for typing whole titles plus the mp3 or whatever extention into the box and then numbering away. It has a creat undo file option which makes one of those old familiar dos batch files in case of screw-ups. Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 6:20 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Batch file renamer Hi Can anyone recommend a good freeware batch file renamer? I will be using it to rename mp3 files though the file type probably should not matter. There are many file renamers available. I tried a couple but they turned out to be trial versions or required making changes in the registry. I thought it would be safer to get one others are already using and is less likely to contain malware. Thanks Russ Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ederol R09
The preamp of the R-09 is a bit noisy. To get rid of the hiss, one has to use a good quiet external preamp or a loud microphone. the Sound Professionals have one especially made for the R-09. *** Michael Lang *** You wrote: Hello, when I use my Ederol R09, there is a hiss, which I want to get rid of. How can I make it so that when I record, I do not get that hiss? Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to find software which will enable me
Hi Dan; Well, that sounds good; *excuse the pun* grin; Do you have any idea where I can buy Goldwave? I wonder if there's any low cost type site for software? Instead of saving to my pc, for transferringfrom cassette ETC., I'd like to put any sounds and music typeof 02 stuff directly to a cd. God wave sounds like fun to run even though I have no experience in transferring but will learn and besides, I'd probably get help on this list. Chow for now; Ken inToronto; f - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Ken, What I'm assuming you want to do here, is record stuff from tapes and put it onto your pC, if you want to go for something relatively inexpensive that'll do the Job, I'd go with GoldWave. IT's just a matter of hooking up your tape recorder to your sound card's line-in jack, and changing the appropriate settings in your volume control, then you should be able to do it once you have software. HTH At 19:02 5/13/2007, you wrote: to record, via a relatively inexpensive software that will enable me to burn from my cassettetapes various collected voice/music, Ealso am not surre that I can attain all of this via mp3 format; Also, does anyone know about the new software called coolsoft? I think I have the nname, coolware, right. TXS for any feed back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC., onto a cd; Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2263 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to find software which will enable me
Hi robert; jWhen you said via e mail, to Get your software here do you mean that you sell software? Cheeers; Va3 kb or, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Robert Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:34 AM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me They don't call us computer brains for nothin! Get your software updated here!!! - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:14 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Ken, What I'm assuming you want to do here, is record stuff from tapes and put it onto your pC, if you want to go for something relatively inexpensive that'll do the Job, I'd go with GoldWave. IT's just a matter of hooking up your tape recorder to your sound card's line-in jack, and changing the appropriate settings in your volume control, then you should be able to do it once you have software. HTH At 19:02 5/13/2007, you wrote: to record, via a relatively inexpensive software that will enable me to burn from my cassettetapes various collected voice/music, Ealso am not surre that I can attain all of this via mp3 format; Also, does anyone know about the new software called coolsoft? I think I have the nname, coolware, right. TXS for any feed back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC., onto a cd; Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2263 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to find software which will enable me
Ken, for Goldwave, go to www.goldwave .com It runs around $50 CDN. Larry - Original Message - From: Ken Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:30 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Dan; Well, that sounds good; *excuse the pun* grin; Do you have any idea where I can buy Goldwave? I wonder if there's any low cost type site for software? Instead of saving to my pc, for transferringfrom cassette ETC., I'd like to put any sounds and music typeof 02 stuff directly to a cd. God wave sounds like fun to run even though I have no experience in transferring but will learn and besides, I'd probably get help on this list. Chow for now; Ken inToronto; f - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Ken, What I'm assuming you want to do here, is record stuff from tapes and put it onto your pC, if you want to go for something relatively inexpensive that'll do the Job, I'd go with GoldWave. IT's just a matter of hooking up your tape recorder to your sound card's line-in jack, and changing the appropriate settings in your volume control, then you should be able to do it once you have software. HTH At 19:02 5/13/2007, you wrote: to record, via a relatively inexpensive software that will enable me to burn from my cassettetapes various collected voice/music, Ealso am not surre that I can attain all of this via mp3 format; Also, does anyone know about the new software called coolsoft? I think I have the nname, coolware, right. TXS for any feed back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC., onto a cd; Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2263 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: crashing and problems burning winammp with vista
Hi. I am using the latest winamp with vista without any problems. However, I am not burning cd's. Paul Henrichsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of patrick Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 11:14 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: crashing and problems burning winammp with vista Hi, I'm new here. I have a question reguarding winamp and vista. I'm unable to burn cds with it, and it crashes constantly. Are there any free players that work good with vista and also burn audio cds? Or, could someone tell me the easiest way to burn a cd with media player 11? I'm using window-eyes 6.1 Thanks, Patrick Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to find software which will enable me
Try: www.goldwave.com Richard Justice www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: Ken Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:30 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Dan; Well, that sounds good; *excuse the pun* grin; Do you have any idea where I can buy Goldwave? I wonder if there's any low cost type site for software? Instead of saving to my pc, for transferringfrom cassette ETC., I'd like to put any sounds and music typeof 02 stuff directly to a cd. God wave sounds like fun to run even though I have no experience in transferring but will learn and besides, I'd probably get help on this list. Chow for now; Ken inToronto; f - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Ken, What I'm assuming you want to do here, is record stuff from tapes and put it onto your pC, if you want to go for something relatively inexpensive that'll do the Job, I'd go with GoldWave. IT's just a matter of hooking up your tape recorder to your sound card's line-in jack, and changing the appropriate settings in your volume control, then you should be able to do it once you have software. HTH At 19:02 5/13/2007, you wrote: to record, via a relatively inexpensive software that will enable me to burn from my cassettetapes various collected voice/music, Ealso am not surre that I can attain all of this via mp3 format; Also, does anyone know about the new software called coolsoft? I think I have the nname, coolware, right. TXS for any feed back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC., onto a cd; Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2263 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to find software which will enable me
Ya check out www.goldwave.com At 15:30 5/14/2007, you wrote: Hi Dan; Well, that sounds good; *excuse the pun* grin; Do you have any idea where I can buy Goldwave? I wonder if there's any low cost type site for software? Instead of saving to my pc, for transferringfrom cassette ETC., I'd like to put any sounds and music typeof 02 stuff directly to a cd. God wave sounds like fun to run even though I have no experience in transferring but will learn and besides, I'd probably get help on this list. Chow for now; Ken inToronto; f - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: trying to find software which will enable me Hi Ken, What I'm assuming you want to do here, is record stuff from tapes and put it onto your pC, if you want to go for something relatively inexpensive that'll do the Job, I'd go with GoldWave. IT's just a matter of hooking up your tape recorder to your sound card's line-in jack, and changing the appropriate settings in your volume control, then you should be able to do it once you have software. HTH At 19:02 5/13/2007, you wrote: to record, via a relatively inexpensive software that will enable me to burn from my cassettetapes various collected voice/music, Ealso am not surre that I can attain all of this via mp3 format; Also, does anyone know about the new software called coolsoft? I think I have the nname, coolware, right. TXS for any feed back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC., onto a cd; Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2263 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 2265 (20070514) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Article: Audio Menus for iPods
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought this was very interesting ... Dave Technology Review Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Audio Menus for iPods By Kate Greene Download an MP3 version of this story http://www.audiodizer.com/technologyreview/infotech/download.aspx?id=18 703 Researchers are testing ways to let people listen to gadget menu options instead of looking at them. Clicking through the menu on your iPod demands a significant amount of visual attention, which can be a hassle (while jogging) and even dangerous (while driving). But engineers at the University of Toronto and Microsoft Research are working on software that could make it possible to navigate the menus of gadgets that use circular touch pads, like the iPod, without looking at them--only audio cues would be used. The researchers have designed an auditory menu technique--called earPod--that provides audio feedback when a person drags his or her finger around the touch pad. Although it's not ready to replace the expansive menus on real iPods, the results are encouraging, says Patrick Baudisch, a research scientist at Microsoft Research, in Seattle, who worked on the project. LINK: http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/ Within 30 minutes of beginning to use the technology, people can navigate two levels of earPod menus faster than traditional visual menus, and just as accurately. Requiring constant visual attention while using a PC is reasonable, says Baudisch, but if you're using an iPod on the road, [constant visual attention] is unreasonable. In addition to giving people back their eyes, he says, audio menus could help gadgets save battery life by not wasting energy on a screen, and they could add functions to the screen-free devices such as the iPod shuffle. The idea of using audio menus isn't new. Auditory interfaces can, after all, be found in touch-tone phone menus and in various assisted technologies for seeing-impaired users. But historically, handheld consumer gadgets haven't widely used audio menus. There are a few reasons for this, says Bruce Walker, professor in the school of psychology and college of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. LINK: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/ One reason, he says, is that audio hardware and software have been resource intensive, requiring significant amounts of computation and energy. In addition, audio software has been difficult to program. But computing power is becoming cheaper, and there is an increasing need to find different ways to interact with handheld devices, says Walker. Within the past 10 years, he says, the ubiquity of mobile devices with small displays has made us all visually impaired. Currently there are only a handful of researchers who are systematically looking at ways to make better audio interfaces for various devices, but Walker expects the ranks to grow in the coming years. This first earPod prototype has a two-level menu hierarchy with 8 items per category, for a total of 64 items. To test how well people use the system, the researchers assigned to the first menu level a random assortment of categories: clothing, fish, instrument, color, and four others. The next level contained eight examples of these items. The iPod analogy would be found in the opening menu, which includes music, extras, settings, and then lower menus that include playlists, artists, and albums, for instance. The earPod approach could be extended to read off a limited number of names of artists and songs as well. EarPod was designed specifically for gadgets with circular touch pads, says Baudisch. The circular touch pad is evenly divided into eight sectors: it's cut like pieces of a pie, with each menu item associated with each piece. When a person touches the dial of an earPod-equipped gadget, the audio menu responds with a prerecorded human voice. If a person puts his or her finger at 12 o'clock on the touch pad, the voice might say Color, indicating that the finger is on the color sector. When the finger crosses one of these invisible sector lines, the user hears a clicking sound. As a finger moves, a new menu item is announced. To select an item and go to the next menu level, the user lifts his or her finger and hears a camera-shutter sound, which indicates that an item has been chosen. Because the touch pad is divided into portions, says Baudisch, people can easily learn where menu items are and quickly jump to certain items without having to scroll through a list, as with an iPod. Another feature of earPod, he says, is that a user doesn't need to wait until a menu item is read before moving on to another. When a finger moves to a new sector, the audio is interrupted and the new item is announced. In the earPod usability study, conducted by Shengdong Zhao, a doctoral student at the University of Toronto, and project lead, the researchers found that people who had no experience using either an iPod or an earPod-equipped device used the
Re: Article: Audio Menus for iPods
Hello Steeve, I just red your posting about the talking ipodder. I've always wanted an eyepodder, but I didn't thank that it would work for me because of the fact that I'm blind. If they pull this earpodder off, I will be the first in line at Cirket City to get one. I hope this talking eye/earpodder will be avillable soon. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Access-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PC Audio Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:34 PM Subject: Fwd: Article: Audio Menus for iPods To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought this was very interesting ... Dave Technology Review Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Audio Menus for iPods By Kate Greene Download an MP3 version of this story http://www.audiodizer.com/technologyreview/infotech/download.aspx?id=18 703 Researchers are testing ways to let people listen to gadget menu options instead of looking at them. Clicking through the menu on your iPod demands a significant amount of visual attention, which can be a hassle (while jogging) and even dangerous (while driving). But engineers at the University of Toronto and Microsoft Research are working on software that could make it possible to navigate the menus of gadgets that use circular touch pads, like the iPod, without looking at them--only audio cues would be used. The researchers have designed an auditory menu technique--called earPod--that provides audio feedback when a person drags his or her finger around the touch pad. Although it's not ready to replace the expansive menus on real iPods, the results are encouraging, says Patrick Baudisch, a research scientist at Microsoft Research, in Seattle, who worked on the project. LINK: http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/ Within 30 minutes of beginning to use the technology, people can navigate two levels of earPod menus faster than traditional visual menus, and just as accurately. Requiring constant visual attention while using a PC is reasonable, says Baudisch, but if you're using an iPod on the road, [constant visual attention] is unreasonable. In addition to giving people back their eyes, he says, audio menus could help gadgets save battery life by not wasting energy on a screen, and they could add functions to the screen-free devices such as the iPod shuffle. The idea of using audio menus isn't new. Auditory interfaces can, after all, be found in touch-tone phone menus and in various assisted technologies for seeing-impaired users. But historically, handheld consumer gadgets haven't widely used audio menus. There are a few reasons for this, says Bruce Walker, professor in the school of psychology and college of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. LINK: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/ One reason, he says, is that audio hardware and software have been resource intensive, requiring significant amounts of computation and energy. In addition, audio software has been difficult to program. But computing power is becoming cheaper, and there is an increasing need to find different ways to interact with handheld devices, says Walker. Within the past 10 years, he says, the ubiquity of mobile devices with small displays has made us all visually impaired. Currently there are only a handful of researchers who are systematically looking at ways to make better audio interfaces for various devices, but Walker expects the ranks to grow in the coming years. This first earPod prototype has a two-level menu hierarchy with 8 items per category, for a total of 64 items. To test how well people use the system, the researchers assigned to the first menu level a random assortment of categories: clothing, fish, instrument, color, and four others. The next level contained eight examples of these items. The iPod analogy would be found in the opening menu, which includes music, extras, settings, and then lower menus that include playlists, artists, and albums, for instance. The earPod approach could be extended to read off a limited number of names of artists and songs as well. EarPod was designed specifically for gadgets with circular touch pads, says Baudisch. The circular touch pad is evenly divided into eight sectors: it's cut like pieces of a pie, with each menu item associated with each piece. When a person touches the dial of an earPod-equipped gadget, the audio menu responds with a prerecorded human voice. If a person puts his or her finger at 12 o'clock on the touch pad, the voice might say Color, indicating that the finger is on the color sector. When the finger crosses one of these invisible sector lines, the user hears a clicking sound. As a finger moves, a new menu item is announced. To select an item and go to the next menu level, the user lifts his or her finger and hears a camera-shutter sound, which indicates that an item has been chosen.
RockBox on IPOD
Ok, this is probably a simple one for you RockBox fans. I just installed RockBox on my Color Photo 60 this past weekend, and I am very pleased with it, and love the VW Paul voice. So, two questions. 1. Can we access and use the calendar and contacts? And, do they sync with Outlook or Outlook Express? 2. Are there any of the plug-ins that work with speech? I am sure a lot of them don't, but I wondered about such things as the text editor. Thanks, D. T. Skype user name: dtat100 Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RockBox on IPOD
David Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:52 PM Subject: RockBox on IPOD Ok, this is probably a simple one for you RockBox fans. I just installed RockBox on my Color Photo 60 this past weekend, and I am very pleased with it, and love the VW Paul voice. So, two questions. 1. Can we access and use the calendar and contacts? **NO. And, do they sync with Outlook or Outlook Express? **NO 2. Are there any of the plug-ins that work with speech? I am sure a lot of them don't, but I wondered about such things as the text editor. **NO not at this time...KG Thanks, D. T. Skype user name: dtat100 Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Article: Audio Menus for iPods
Hi well while we've not yet heard of the ipodder, we would like to inform you that you do not need to wait for this (most likely pricey) add on for an ipod to navigate one while totally blind. rockbox.org provides a similar, but much more advanced system of navigating many models of mp3 players using a voiced user interface. I very highly recommend looking in to it. I use it flawlessly to use my ihp 120. tj tj - Original Message - From: John Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:16 PM Subject: Re: Article: Audio Menus for iPods Hello Steeve, I just red your posting about the talking ipodder. I've always wanted an eyepodder, but I didn't thank that it would work for me because of the fact that I'm blind. If they pull this earpodder off, I will be the first in line at Cirket City to get one. I hope this talking eye/earpodder will be avillable soon. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Access-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PC Audio Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:34 PM Subject: Fwd: Article: Audio Menus for iPods To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought this was very interesting ... Dave Technology Review Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Audio Menus for iPods By Kate Greene Download an MP3 version of this story http://www.audiodizer.com/technologyreview/infotech/download.aspx?id=18 703 Researchers are testing ways to let people listen to gadget menu options instead of looking at them. Clicking through the menu on your iPod demands a significant amount of visual attention, which can be a hassle (while jogging) and even dangerous (while driving). But engineers at the University of Toronto and Microsoft Research are working on software that could make it possible to navigate the menus of gadgets that use circular touch pads, like the iPod, without looking at them--only audio cues would be used. The researchers have designed an auditory menu technique--called earPod--that provides audio feedback when a person drags his or her finger around the touch pad. Although it's not ready to replace the expansive menus on real iPods, the results are encouraging, says Patrick Baudisch, a research scientist at Microsoft Research, in Seattle, who worked on the project. LINK: http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/ Within 30 minutes of beginning to use the technology, people can navigate two levels of earPod menus faster than traditional visual menus, and just as accurately. Requiring constant visual attention while using a PC is reasonable, says Baudisch, but if you're using an iPod on the road, [constant visual attention] is unreasonable. In addition to giving people back their eyes, he says, audio menus could help gadgets save battery life by not wasting energy on a screen, and they could add functions to the screen-free devices such as the iPod shuffle. The idea of using audio menus isn't new. Auditory interfaces can, after all, be found in touch-tone phone menus and in various assisted technologies for seeing-impaired users. But historically, handheld consumer gadgets haven't widely used audio menus. There are a few reasons for this, says Bruce Walker, professor in the school of psychology and college of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. LINK: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/ One reason, he says, is that audio hardware and software have been resource intensive, requiring significant amounts of computation and energy. In addition, audio software has been difficult to program. But computing power is becoming cheaper, and there is an increasing need to find different ways to interact with handheld devices, says Walker. Within the past 10 years, he says, the ubiquity of mobile devices with small displays has made us all visually impaired. Currently there are only a handful of researchers who are systematically looking at ways to make better audio interfaces for various devices, but Walker expects the ranks to grow in the coming years. This first earPod prototype has a two-level menu hierarchy with 8 items per category, for a total of 64 items. To test how well people use the system, the researchers assigned to the first menu level a random assortment of categories: clothing, fish, instrument, color, and four others. The next level contained eight examples of these items. The iPod analogy would be found in the opening menu, which includes music, extras, settings, and then lower menus that include playlists, artists, and albums, for instance. The earPod approach could be extended to read off a limited number of names of artists and songs as well. EarPod was designed specifically for gadgets with circular touch pads, says Baudisch. The circular touch pad is evenly divided into eight sectors: it's cut like pieces of a pie, with
Re: Article: Audio Menus for iPods
Well, I'll tell you what. After using the RockBox software on my IPOD for 4 days I would say that the day of the talking IPod is here. If you can use the speech on a PC you can definately use the speech that RockBox gives you to access your IPOD. The improvements in the software, and in the ease of installation in the past year have made it a quite reasonable solution for making IPOD accessible to the blind user. - Original Message - From: John Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Article: Audio Menus for iPods : Hello Steeve, : I just red your posting about the talking ipodder. : I've always wanted an eyepodder, but I didn't thank that it would work for : me because of the fact that I'm blind. : If they pull this earpodder off, I will be the first in line at Cirket City : to get one. : I hope this talking eye/earpodder will be avillable soon. : - Original Message - : From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: Access-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PC Audio Pc-audio@pc-audio.org : Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:34 PM : Subject: Fwd: Article: Audio Menus for iPods : : : : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : From: David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : I thought this was very interesting ... : : Dave : : Technology Review : Tuesday, May 08, 2007 : : Audio Menus for iPods : : By Kate Greene : : Download an MP3 version of this story : http://www.audiodizer.com/technologyreview/infotech/download.aspx?id=18 : : 703 Researchers are testing ways to let people listen to gadget menu : options : instead of looking at them. : : Clicking through the menu on your iPod demands a significant : amount of : visual attention, which can be a hassle (while jogging) and even : dangerous : (while driving). But engineers at the University of Toronto and : Microsoft : Research are working on software that could make it possible to : navigate : the menus of gadgets that use circular touch pads, like the iPod, : without : looking at them--only audio cues would be used. : : The researchers have designed an auditory menu technique--called : earPod--that provides audio feedback when a person drags his or : her finger : around the touch pad. Although it's not ready to replace the : expansive : menus on real iPods, the results are encouraging, says Patrick : Baudisch, a : research scientist at Microsoft Research, in Seattle, who worked : on the : project. : : LINK: : http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/ : : Within 30 minutes of beginning to use the technology, people can : navigate : two levels of earPod menus faster than traditional visual menus, : and just : as accurately. : : Requiring constant visual attention while using a PC is : reasonable, : says : Baudisch, but if you're using an iPod on the road, [constant : visual : attention] is unreasonable. In addition to giving people back : their eyes, : he says, audio menus could help gadgets save battery life by not : wasting : energy on a screen, and they could add functions to the : screen-free : devices such as the iPod shuffle. : : The idea of using audio menus isn't new. Auditory interfaces can, : after : all, be found in touch-tone phone menus and in various assisted : technologies for seeing-impaired users. But historically, handheld : : consumer gadgets haven't widely used audio menus. There are a few : reasons : for this, says Bruce Walker, professor in the school of psychology : and : college of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. : : LINK: : http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/ : : One reason, he says, is that audio hardware and software have : been : resource intensive, requiring significant amounts of computation : and : energy. In addition, audio software has been difficult to : program. : : But computing power is becoming cheaper, and there is an : increasing : need : to find different ways to interact with handheld devices, says : Walker. : Within the past 10 years, he says, the ubiquity of mobile devices : with : small displays has made us all visually impaired. Currently : there are : only a handful of researchers who are systematically looking at : ways to : make better audio interfaces for various devices, but Walker : expects the : ranks to grow in the coming years. : : This first earPod prototype has a two-level menu hierarchy with 8 : items : per category, for a total of 64 items. To test how well people use : the : system, the researchers assigned to the first menu level a random : : assortment of categories: clothing, fish, instrument, : color, and : four others. The next level contained eight examples of these : items. The : iPod analogy would be found in the opening menu, which includes : music, : extras, settings, and then lower menus that include : playlists, : artists, and albums, for instance. The earPod approach could : be : extended
Re: RockBox on IPOD
Thanks, I wish the answers were better, but considering the level of access to the music I certainly can't complain. - Original Message - From: Keith Gillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: Re: RockBox on IPOD : : David Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:52 PM : Subject: RockBox on IPOD : : : Ok, this is probably a simple one for you RockBox fans. : : I just installed RockBox on my Color Photo 60 this past weekend, and I am : very pleased with it, and love the VW Paul voice. : : So, two questions. : 1. Can we access and use the calendar and contacts? : **NO. And, do they sync with Outlook or Outlook Express? : **NO : : 2. Are there any of the plug-ins that work with speech? I am sure a lot of : them don't, but I wondered about such things as the text editor. : : **NO not at this time...KG : : Thanks, : D. T. : : Skype user name: dtat100 : : : Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... : http://www.pc-audio.org : : To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : : Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... : http://www.pc-audio.org : : To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : -- : No virus found in this incoming message. : Checked by AVG Free Edition. : Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.8/800 - Release Date: 5/11/2007 7:34 PM : : Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
