Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text
Dennis, The Voice Recognition feature went away because HIMS claimed that it wasn't being used by many of their customers. They licensed voice recognition from another company, and they didn't want to continue paying the license fee. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text this along with the mp3 player in the xt not being as good really makes me edgy about this being a good product. when they added voice commands to the xt it worked for a short time. then they did another fermware upgrade and the voice commands went away. at least on mine. they should have a much easier method of upgrading fermware on those devices. On 6/3/2014 11:23 AM, Gary King wrote: The Blaze EZ will have Bluetooth, but not the latest version. I hope it will be better implemented than it is in the BookSense XT. You can't control the BookSense from a headset. I've had trouble keeping a Bluetooth connection with my XT and my Plantronics 590 headset. I have no such trouble with the same headset and my iPad or iPod Touch. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brian Olesen br...@blindkom.dk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text hi, Not correct. Victor Stream 2 doesn't have bluetooth connectivity, which is amazing if you use it together on the go with a dual pairable bluetooth headset on the go. Book Sense xt has that feature, and I asume the new also will have that. Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Gary King Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text
thanks gary. i didn't know that. they didn't even give it enough time to clame that i don't think. and why they thought it would in the first place is strange. On 6/3/2014 12:37 PM, Gary King wrote: Dennis, The Voice Recognition feature went away because HIMS claimed that it wasn't being used by many of their customers. They licensed voice recognition from another company, and they didn't want to continue paying the license fee. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text this along with the mp3 player in the xt not being as good really makes me edgy about this being a good product. when they added voice commands to the xt it worked for a short time. then they did another fermware upgrade and the voice commands went away. at least on mine. they should have a much easier method of upgrading fermware on those devices. On 6/3/2014 11:23 AM, Gary King wrote: The Blaze EZ will have Bluetooth, but not the latest version. I hope it will be better implemented than it is in the BookSense XT. You can't control the BookSense from a headset. I've had trouble keeping a Bluetooth connection with my XT and my Plantronics 590 headset. I have no such trouble with the same headset and my iPad or iPod Touch. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brian Olesen br...@blindkom.dk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text hi, Not correct. Victor Stream 2 doesn't have bluetooth connectivity, which is amazing if you use it together on the go with a dual pairable bluetooth headset on the go. Book Sense xt has that feature, and I asume the new also will have that. Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Gary King Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using
