Sarah: That's an interesting statement because if you truly believe that then this whole discussion is worthless because the answer would then be get a laptop. Laptops have phone diallers telnet capabilities and the ability to scan and the list goes on and on.
As what has already been said its personal preference yours is important to you however mine is to me just for example because you happen to like the speech doesn't make the concerns of the rest of us invalid it only means that all of us use our devices in different ways. Having said that maybe humanware should raise the price by about 5000 go out and hire 1000 programmers and give everyone what they want. Trouble is that nobody would buy it because they can't afford it. This list represents only a small group of users and in four years I have seen many changes that have come from this list on the other hand I have seen the same complaints being brought up by a select few who have there own requirements. Its important to remember the humanware is in business being in business means you must meet the needs of as many as you can because if you can't make a product that you can sell you won't be around for long at all. Just look at telesensory at one time the absolute leader in adaptive technology as big as any company today but they aren't there any longer. If humanware believes that the majority of users would prefer to have a choice in what speech they want then they will give it to them and it won't matter in the end. I think that all most people want is the ability to make some choices and not necessarily be dictated by a few who happen to express themselves loudly. The fact is that the majority is truly silent. Finally and this I believe is important to remember your needs as a student are not what your needs may be when your working. If in order to do your job you need access to excel PowerPoint along with a host of other programs are you going to say sorry can't do that I need to use my BN. I don't think so many companies for security reasons won't even let a BN. Connect to there networks it doesn't have a firewall or a virus checker and it doesn't support Html in e-mail. Having said all that I love my own units and use them all the time but not for work except as strictly a portable note taker for meetings. Have a good day and never stop discussing. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarai D. Bucciarelli Sent: July 15, 2005 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote I agree, if you want eloquence, get a Pack Mate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Nutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote Hi, All Humanware would need to do for that, would be to resurrect Keynote Gold for Windows XP. I wish they would do that. The software Keynote Gold was exceptional speech in its time, and I used to use it with Window-Eyes, but because of Pulsedata, as they were then, insisting on using a now ancient method of copy protecting it, you can't now use it under Windows XP. If they got rid of Everlock, and did a little development, and resurrected it for XP, you could use it for JAWS, Window-Eyes, or whatever you wanted to use it with. I would prefer them to do this, than to put Eloquence, a much inferior synth, into the Braillenote. Just my opinion. All the best -- Computer Room Services: the long cane for blind computer users. Telephone Voice: +44(0)1438 742286, Fax/BBS: +44(0)1438 759589 mobile: +44(0)7956 334938, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.comproom.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarai D. Bucciarelli Sent: 15 July 2005 01:46 To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote I love the BN's speech better than Jaws, infact, I wish Humanware would market their speech in to a screen reader. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Arrigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote Oh, I don't know, I like eloquence, but I also do like the keynote speech engines as far as pronunciation.peech quite a bit. It's definitely one of the more accurate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bray, Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:28 AM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote Josh that would be a real improvement. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Sent: July 13, 2005 9:10 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] eloquence for braillenote Hi, Maybe now since we have the m-power machines. Maybe it would be possible to add the multilingual eloquence as an option for speech software on the braillenote that could run with KeySoft? 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