I've had a Booksense for over a year now. I've heard a demo of the
Bookport Plus. I used to have a Bookport, but it finally stopped
working, and no one repairs them now. I bouthg a Booksense. The
synthetic voice on the Bookport Plus is the same one as used by the
Plextalk Pocket. The voices on the Booksense are ones used by the
Voiceware speech program from Neospeech called "Kate" and
"Paul". They sound much more human. There are some pronunciation
problems, but not that many, as far as I am concerned. The voice
quality makes up for these shortcomings. You can get the voice speed
using "Kate" or "Paul to the point that it would be very difficult
for most people to understand it. As far as NLS books go, the
Bookport Plus plays them faster, but not a lot faster. I think the
speed on these books should be so fast that the user would need to
slow it down, instead of wishing for something faster. As far as
recording goes, I've only used the internal microphone on the
Booksense. You can very the sensitivity rate from one to four. One
for close-up recording, and four for recording something in, for
example, a large room. You can also very the bit rate of the
recordings from 16,000 to 44,000. Of course, the high-bit recordings
are going to take up more space, but they'll be of increasingly better quality.
There is a bit of subjectivity involved here, but overall, I think
the Booksense is a superior product.
Kim Lingo
At 01:41 AM 6/25/2010, you wrote:
Well, I'm again contemplating the purchase of a portable player. I'm
calling on the wisdom of the list to pass on how the Book Sense rates
compared to the Book Port and Stream. I'm interested in overall
impressions, any flaw or benefit I don't mention here, and in these
questions:
Can you speed up the tts or human voices fast enough?
Are there any limitations with line-in recording?
If you have one, how does recording in general compare to that on the Book
Port Plus?
How does playback of NLS books compare to that on either of the other
players?
Thanks for any feedback.
Dean
If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original
sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour
message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please
consider sending your message to [email protected] so the
entire list will receive it.
To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit:
http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
signature database 5229 (20100625) __________
The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
http://www.eset.com
If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only.
If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW
Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to
[email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit:
http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
