Re: [Braillenote] Is this normal?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:23:27 -0800

Just to add to this thread, Catherine, it's agreed generally that the notetakers these days just don't seem to be able to manage the speed some of us oldie Braillists can write at. Some of us suspect one of the problems is the timing of the spacebar and perhaps that it gets stuck on occasions. I don't usually encounter your problem as most of the time I work using Braille only, just thinking that this is probably marginally faster and also may mean less drain on the battery. In addition, I often write in public so want to be totally confident about writing in Braille only.
You mentioned something about one-handed, and this certainly may add to the problems you're seeing. 


In addition to the possiblity of low memory, you may find you have almost 
filled your Flash disk.  It's surprising how quickly it can fill, especially 
if you inadvertently record a file, which then resides in your My Memos 
folder and you don't notice ...  Take a look there.



Oh, there's something else I notice too and that is that speed writing is 
not accomplished so well if you're actually holding the BN, or have it 
resting on your knees but not very flat.  Sometimes when I'm caught out and 
the spacebar appears to be lagging behind, I realise I'm not sitting in a 
very good position.



I do hope these pointers go some way to sorting your problems.  All I can 
say is that you're not alone.  Anyway, it seems as though you're taking the 
time to learn things and make the best out of your PK, and that's really 
good.



Come back if your questions aren't fully covered with your various 
responses, or if you need to ask further questions.


Cheers now.

--
Carol
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Chao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Joseph Lee'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Catherine Turner'" 
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Is this normal?



Catherine and Joseph,


Well, Joseph already answered the first and third question rather well I 
thought. As for the issue of the PK's speech stopping in
the middle of no where. I thought myself that this was an issue of memory 
being low, but I hav  seen the memory drop even lower then
the reported values when speech stopped. I think there is just some issue 
between HumanWare and Baum working out a few kinks in the
PK. The PK's speech stopping is just one example, another would be at the 
moment the C2 does nothing. This is because Baum isn't

giving HumanWare the code to access the C2 key.


Well, I don't want to give away too much behind the scenes and will end it 
here.


Kevin




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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:40 AM
To: Catherine Turner; [email protected]
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Is this normal?

Hi Catherine,
1.  The browser: this can be numerous
factors, including low memory, too many Temp
files and so on.  I personally recommend that
you check memohy status frequently (Go to
Options/Support Information Mode (SPACE with
I from Optionsgg/Memory Info (SPACE with I
again)); you'll notice that under KeyWeb, the
memohy gets so low (especially virtual
memory).
2.  Speech lockup: I have no idea at all.  My
hypothesis would be that it might be due to
low memory.
3.  Faster command execution: I've noticed,
on my mPower, that when I type fast, speech
tends to speed up quite rapidly.  Have you
tried typing without speech - that is, with
speech set to off?
The best "expert" would be Kevin Chao.
Cheers,
Joseph


----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Turner"

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Date sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:08:24 +0000
Subject: [Braillenote] Is this normal?



Hi,



I've had my PK for a couple of months ane,

while it's crashed

sometimes in the past it's doing it mor now,

though that might be me

noticing it more because I'm using it more.



There are three things which happen fairly

regularly.


1.  One specific thing which seems guaranteed

to stop it responding at

all until I reset is switching from the

browser to the bookreader.  I

don't know if this would happen with other

books but every time I've

switched from reading my e-mail in the

browser to bookreader and tried

to open the manual chapter for the browser,

it either crashes when I

press for the Keysoft System Disk or whan I

press enter for the manual

folder.  So I have to reset, and can't switch

between reading about

the browser and using it.



2.  Quite often speech stops without me (to

my knowledge) switching it

off.  Sounds don't work either.  Is there a

keystroke for muting

sound?  Maybe I'm pressing it by accident.

So far from what I've

learned I thought the way to switch speech

off was with space and n3.

But I'm not pressing that when this happens

and when I cycle it round

to speech on again I still don't get any

sound.  The last time I reset

after this the speech was slower than usual,

it said something about

cannot find string and wouldn't go into the

main menu as usual and I

had to reset again.  I'm getting worried.

Should I be?


3.  Sometimes when I'm typing, speech stops

and nothing happens when I

type; I press backspace/advance/back and get

the error beep.  Then if

I wait a few seconds I can carry on typing.

Since I'm using it with

one hand but not in one handed mode (so some

of my keystrokes may be

unclear/slippery plus I still type quite

fast) maybe the PK can't cope

with that/doesn't like it?  This doesn't

worry me as much as the

speech stopping/resetting/cannot find string

thing.


If anyone has any comments and/or can tell me

a keystroke for muting

sound I might be accidentally pressing I'd be

interested to hear.


Thanks,
Catherine



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