Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Hamit Campos]

Who are Andre and Anthony? As for the PTR2 it is epic. I'm just saying 
that before 1 buys 1 cause you can still buy 1 if you wish. But before 
ya do so I think it's best to borrow 1 from a homy which is the gangsta 
word for friend and try some CF cards. See if it doesn't do like the 
PTR1. Or maybe it's mi PTR1 that has the issue. Cause like I said mine 
has rejected 3 CF cards in a row. That's something like 30 dolars down 
the John. I don't know why it's being so dam picky all of the sudden.



On 5/6/2017 8:45 AM, Aidan wrote:

Andre, Anthony and his team cell them since last year.
Hamit, you so rite, I would love to try out the ptr2 and I think its
put together very well, but yes the hardware is a big show stopper,
and you will be better off with bookport dt from APH if you want to go
that root. I cannot compare drive of ptn2 with ptn1 as I did not
experience ptn1, but I think it will be better since one of the
firmware updates did address issues with the drive.

On 06/05/2017, André van Deventer  wrote:

Now where will you get this little player since Neville retired?



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 7:39 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

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 

Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Aidan]

Andre, Anthony and his team cell them since last year.
Hamit, you so rite, I would love to try out the ptr2 and I think its
put together very well, but yes the hardware is a big show stopper,
and you will be better off with bookport dt from APH if you want to go
that root. I cannot compare drive of ptn2 with ptn1 as I did not
experience ptn1, but I think it will be better since one of the
firmware updates did address issues with the drive.

On 06/05/2017, André van Deventer  wrote:
> Now where will you get this little player since Neville retired?
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan
> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 7:39 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
>
> 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
>>> 

RE: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[André van Deventer]

Now where will you get this little player since Neville retired?



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 7:39 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

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 

Re: Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote

[Anders Holmberg]

Hi!
There is a guy on the mac visionaries list that has one.
Would you like me to talk to him via e-mail and let him contact you.
/A
> 5 maj 2017 kl. 21:48 skrev 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"
> 
> 

The Fire TV with VoiceView from Amazon: An Accessibility Review - AccessWorld® - September 2016

[Dane Trethowan]

http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pubnew.asp?DocID=aw170902

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