Hi Lee, I am going through old mail, to see if any of it will help on my new
computer. I was interested in your transmitter on the keyboard, allowing you
to be anywhere around your house and still use the keyboard.
Do you mean that your transmitter has a speaker? So you can hear the Jaws
voice, regardless of where you are?
Many thanks! Vicky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Mounger" <lmoun...@comcast.net>
To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:03 AM
Subject: Freedom From The Computer
Hi Listers,
A few years ago, I decided that since I was using Jaws and had no need for
the screen, why should I have to be tied to the computer to use the
computer. Here's what I did. I connected an FM transmitter to the sound
card of my computer and now use a small FM radio or my Sansa mp3 player
which is tiny and equipped with FM to hear Jaws or anything else from the
sound card. Then I bought an RF wireless keyboard with a range of a
hundred feet or so. The keyboard is small and light and with a
transmitter built in. The keyboard's receiver plugs into the USB port of
my computer. With this combination, for probably the last five years,
unless I have to load a disc or do something physical on the computer, I
compute wherever I want from bed, to the living room, to the kitchen, etc.
My only problem is that because it's an RF keyboard, I sometimes have to
physically adjust the keyboard receiver's little antenna at the computer
depending on where I am in the house. So here's my question. I haven't
done anything with Bluetooth and I know some of you are much more
knowledgeable about this technology. Is anyone doing the same thing I'm
doing with Bluetooth? I think I need a longer range, Class 1, wireless
Bluetooth keyboard. Does anyone know where I could buy such an animal?
There seem to be plenty of infrared or short-range wireless keyboards out
there but the first question from well-meaning sighted computer people is,
"why would you want a wireless keyboard anywhere too far to see the
computer screen," <grin>. Of course the answer is that you probably
wouldn't unless you were a visually impaired person using a screen reader
so it's kind of a niche problem. Any help and advice would be greatly
appreciated.
Lee Mounger'
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