Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Hamit Campos]

Amen to that. Look at how plextalk's still selling the PTR2. Now maybe 
my PTR1's  jaded me. Whith how it's rejected 3 cards in a row. Three in 
a row dam it. I don't understand how people that bought the PTR2 from 08 
to today this verry day are getting buy. If anyone like this is here on 
list and wants to shed some light for me please let me know either here 
or off list. I'd really love to know how 1 justifies $995. I'm not 
bashing. Like you said at the start of your message I too wish they'd 
update the thing. Make a PTR3. Fine keep the CD writer for what ever 
it's worth, but lift the dam limits off the card reader. Cause even 
compact flash is still a thing but it's not the thing of 2006. There are 
128 GB CF cards. I've seen them on Amazon. They also have some tech I 
can't remember the name of right now that Sound Devices also takes 
advantage of that makes them fast. Like dude come on. So how's the PTN2? 
Is the drive loads quieter then the PTN1's drive? I've seen the PTP1 
it's cool. It's a mini PTR1. I still have my ptr1 and it is a shame it's 
rejecting CF cards left and right. I'd love to continue useing it for 
things here and there while it lasts. Though I'd love to get a PTR2. I 
had 1 for a bit. But it went south after a bit. I miiss it. It was epic. 
Though thhis new Cchinese player sounds cool.



On 5/5/2017 1:39 PM, Aidan wrote:

Well, I think that humanware really like to give us quite crappy
hardware and then we pay fru our nek for what? I love my stream, but I
agree that PlexTalk do a much better job with hardware. The stream
wifi chip is really not that good. I would love to get a milestone, I
think I would like the 212 as it sfor voice and music mostly, as I
have enough players with more in a package.
I have both ptp1 and ptn2, wich have great speakers as said.
I just think that PlexTalk should make their devices faster and update
it more, then I can support them 100%. But the player I enjoy a lot
now is the evo e 10 from vin-vision. They a china baste company but
they really do great work.
The player have wifi, and its very strong, and the hardware in general
is very good. It don't have a full keypad though, so you do most
things with the up, down, left and write and enter, but it have the
most features of all.
Both fm radio and internet radio, podcast ability, recorder, and soon
will hopefully be able to record internet radio also. Five alarms,
voice memos, voice reminders, (similar to the notepad on ptr2)
The recorder is actually so loud when recording from external sorces
or radio that you need to set recording volume to 1 or 2, and the nice
thing about it is that if something is very soft, then you can make it
louder to record better.
Also have noise gate. Not to high quality bitrates, but the most used
are there. It even have time announcements on hour or hafr hour or 15
minits. It uses evona tts joei and sally. It have calculator and
compus bookmarks, and customizable hotkey set. Also alouw for
copying/moving/deleting files. It have four gig internal memory and
uses also sd hc carts. Extremely stable firmware and take ten seconds
to upgrade firmware. Can also check for updates online. It have a
large speaker on the top frunt, and sound louder than even ptp1. You
can choose if you want it to remember the playback position of
different content. Music, wich also include any playable audio,
e-books and daisy.

On 04/05/2017, john schwery  wrote:

The Battery in my NLS player is down to around 8
hours, now.  I don't know why they can't solve the battery life issue.

At 10:07 AM 5/4/2017, you wrote:

I read quite a lot and while at home, in my
opinion, nothing beats the NLS player, with its
good sound, long-lasting battery, although the
battery life, that begins at 40 hours, slowly
degrades to about 16 with prolonged use.  The
Iphone of course, is also excellent for
listening to BARD books, but with so many other
apps on the Iphone and now with unlimited data,
plus texting and the telephone itself, I prefer
to also take the Milestone 312 for the books.

The problem is that we are slowly  becoming pack
horses, when you take into consideration that
when travelling, I normally take my Iphone,
Milestone, Olympus, ORCAM, laptop and CPap machine.

Everything could be improved of course.  The NLS
players could solve the battery-life issue plus
add Bluetooth capability;  the Milestone could
add Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an antenna for the FM
radio, for now it uses the wire of the
headphones as antenna; the ORCAM should be able to save the text it scans,
etc.

Regards,

Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 7:33 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

Cool. Yes I've red that the new 1 has a radio. I'm glad it's so much
better then my 311. So you'd say it's worth it then? Cause I've never
seen 1 

Re: Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote

[Dane Trethowan]

Thanks for that, I’ll find the review and post a link here so you can compare 
it with what you know, may be helpful.

> On 6 May 2017, at 9:20 am, Mary Otten  wrote:
> 
> I did not read the access world review, and only fairly recently got the fire 
> TV stick. But it works fine, although some apps are not accessible. All of 
> the Amazon stuff is accessible. Netflix is accessible. You can adjust the 
> voice speed and the volume. So I'm not sure what you might be looking for 
> specifically in terms of accessibility questions.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 5, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Dane Trethowan  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Does anyone on list own one of these devices? If so then how are you finding 
>> it.
>> 
>> I read a review of the device in an issue of Access World last year, I know 
>> someone who just bought one and thus was curious to know if any further 
>> progress had been made with subsequent updates of the Amazon Fire firware, 
>> the VoiceView Screen Reader, the Voice Remote Controller etc.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> **
>> "Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if 
>> you were going to live forever"
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
halfwits in this world behind.

Re: Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote

[Mary Otten]

I did not read the access world review, and only fairly recently got the fire 
TV stick. But it works fine, although some apps are not accessible. All of the 
Amazon stuff is accessible. Netflix is accessible. You can adjust the voice 
speed and the volume. So I'm not sure what you might be looking for 
specifically in terms of accessibility questions.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On May 5, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Dane Trethowan  wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Does anyone on list own one of these devices? If so then how are you finding 
> it.
> 
> I read a review of the device in an issue of Access World last year, I know 
> someone who just bought one and thus was curious to know if any further 
> progress had been made with subsequent updates of the Amazon Fire firware, 
> the VoiceView Screen Reader, the Voice Remote Controller etc.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> **
> "Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if 
> you were going to live forever"
> 
> 

Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote

[Dane Trethowan]

Hi!

Does anyone on list own one of these devices? If so then how are you 
finding it.


I read a review of the device in an issue of Access World last year, I 
know someone who just bought one and thus was curious to know if any 
further progress had been made with subsequent updates of the Amazon 
Fire firware, the VoiceView Screen Reader, the Voice Remote Controller etc.




--

**
"Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if you were 
going to live forever"

Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Aidan]

Well, I think that humanware really like to give us quite crappy
hardware and then we pay fru our nek for what? I love my stream, but I
agree that PlexTalk do a much better job with hardware. The stream
wifi chip is really not that good. I would love to get a milestone, I
think I would like the 212 as it sfor voice and music mostly, as I
have enough players with more in a package.
I have both ptp1 and ptn2, wich have great speakers as said.
I just think that PlexTalk should make their devices faster and update
it more, then I can support them 100%. But the player I enjoy a lot
now is the evo e 10 from vin-vision. They a china baste company but
they really do great work.
The player have wifi, and its very strong, and the hardware in general
is very good. It don't have a full keypad though, so you do most
things with the up, down, left and write and enter, but it have the
most features of all.
Both fm radio and internet radio, podcast ability, recorder, and soon
will hopefully be able to record internet radio also. Five alarms,
voice memos, voice reminders, (similar to the notepad on ptr2)
The recorder is actually so loud when recording from external sorces
or radio that you need to set recording volume to 1 or 2, and the nice
thing about it is that if something is very soft, then you can make it
louder to record better.
Also have noise gate. Not to high quality bitrates, but the most used
are there. It even have time announcements on hour or hafr hour or 15
minits. It uses evona tts joei and sally. It have calculator and
compus bookmarks, and customizable hotkey set. Also alouw for
copying/moving/deleting files. It have four gig internal memory and
uses also sd hc carts. Extremely stable firmware and take ten seconds
to upgrade firmware. Can also check for updates online. It have a
large speaker on the top frunt, and sound louder than even ptp1. You
can choose if you want it to remember the playback position of
different content. Music, wich also include any playable audio,
e-books and daisy.

On 04/05/2017, john schwery  wrote:
> The Battery in my NLS player is down to around 8
> hours, now.  I don't know why they can't solve the battery life issue.
>
> At 10:07 AM 5/4/2017, you wrote:
>>I read quite a lot and while at home, in my
>>opinion, nothing beats the NLS player, with its
>>good sound, long-lasting battery, although the
>>battery life, that begins at 40 hours, slowly
>>degrades to about 16 with prolonged use.  The
>>Iphone of course, is also excellent for
>>listening to BARD books, but with so many other
>>apps on the Iphone and now with unlimited data,
>>plus texting and the telephone itself, I prefer
>>to also take the Milestone 312 for the books.
>>
>>The problem is that we are slowly  becoming pack
>>horses, when you take into consideration that
>>when travelling, I normally take my Iphone,
>>Milestone, Olympus, ORCAM, laptop and CPap machine.
>>
>>Everything could be improved of course.  The NLS
>>players could solve the battery-life issue plus
>>add Bluetooth capability;  the Milestone could
>>add Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an antenna for the FM
>>radio, for now it uses the wire of the
>>headphones as antenna; the ORCAM should be able to save the text it scans,
>> etc.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Humberto
>>
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Pc-audio
>>[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos
>>Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 7:33 AM
>>To: PC Audio Discussion List 
>>Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
>>
>>Cool. Yes I've red that the new 1 has a radio. I'm glad it's so much
>>better then my 311. So you'd say it's worth it then? Cause I've never
>>seen 1 and wasn't sure how much of an upgrade it is. As for the NLS
>>player. I too have 1. It's cool looking. Don't use it as often though.
>>What with the app being on my phone.
>>
>>
>>On 5/4/2017 2:03 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:
>> > Hello Hamit:
>> >
>> > Yes, I do have the 312 and it is excellent,
>> except as I said, that it does not have
>> Wi-Fi.  I also have a VRS but one of the first
>> generation.  I do not use the Milestone for
>> recording except for emergencies, I have an
>> Olympus DS-50 for that and I normally do not
>> record stereo, mostly monoaural voice.
>> >
>> > The Milestone 312 has a circular speaker with
>> a grill in front, rather large for the size of
>> the hardware, that plays excellent sound,
>> albeit mono; to hear stereo you must use
>> headphones, but either way the sound is
>> remarkable for such a small player.  It also has FM radio.
>> >
>> > I normally use the NLS player to listen to
>> BARD books at home, but when travelling or
>> otherwise away from home, use mostly my
>> Milestone, I prefer it due to size and clarity of sound.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Humberto
>> >
>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: Pc-audio
>> [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos
>> > Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 9:57 PM
>> > 

Re: Nokia 3310 relaunch: handset unveiled ahead of its mid-June release date | WIRED UK

[Anders Holmberg]

Hi!
I think they relaunched that phone in february or march.
BUt yes i think i also had that phone for a while.
Now i wait for the new flagship from Nokia.
/A
> 4 maj 2017 kl. 17:13 skrev Dane Trethowan :
> 
> An interesting read, I had one of these phones for a while around 15 years 
> ago I think it was and loved its simplicity however I wouldn’t myself go back 
> to using one now and - even suppose I really wanted to - I wouldn’t be able 
> to use it as Australia is fazing out or has fazed out many of the frequency’s 
> this phone used and still is using.
> Anyway a boom for those who just want to use “A Phone”
> 
> 
>> http://www.wired.co.uk/article/nokia-3310-and-nokia-6-global-launch 
>> 
> 
> 
> **
> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
> halfwits in this world behind.
> 
> 
>