Well, some of them are extra features, but most of them are just
different features. I could buy a stream any time I want, but it
doesn't have the recording support I want and it doesn't have some of
the playback support I want. If the stream offered what I want, I
might seriously consider it despite my own opinion on most of
humanware's hardware lines.
This is going to have the features I want, so I will probably buy
it. When it came to stream vs plextalk, Ptp didn't have the playback
features american users wanted. No nls support and I'm pretty sure no
audible support though I could be rong about that. The stream had
them, so it's not surprising that the stream is the better seller.
We won't see the nls book reader here when it comes out, so I have no
way of knowing how it will stack up. If it has other features besides
the ability to play nls content you might have a winner in the US, but
there are other places in the world, and there is still a demand for
products that compete on features rather than on price.
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erik burggraaf
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On 22-Mar-09, at 1:13 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
I just don't see the point of internal storage when prices on cards
are dropping like a rock. Mp3 has always been fine for what I do, and
my icon can record in stereo if I need it. Different strokes I guess.
My biggest issue with it all is that being third or fourth in a
limited market is going to make it very hard to make any money, I'd
think. The extra features might sell to some, but for the people who
just want a book reader, the only things that are going to convince
them is a lower price or the death of one they already have. I don't
know if the nls machine will be albe to read e-text, but if it can, it
will be hard for anybody to beat the price on it.
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:07:14 -0400, you wrote:
Eh, Looks like you missed the 1-4 gb of internal storage, binoral
internal recording direct to mp3 and wav, and ogg and flac support.
Those were the features that cught my eye especially.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 22-Mar-09, at 12:35 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
I must've missed it. I really didn't see anything in the booksense
that the victor stream doesn't do. I personally prefer my icon. It
doesn't play digital nls books as well as the victor, but being able
to get on the web anywhere there is wi-fi to grab the latest news
or a
stock quote makes up for that failing. My first victor stream
lasted
about six months before it gave up.
That seems about par for these sorts of objects, considering the
luck
I had with road runner and bookport in the past. I have a
two-year-old cell phone, but I can't figure out why it still works.
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:41:32 -0400, you wrote:
Hum, well for one thing the development on this is mostly done by
HIMS. I would imagine the decision to make a book reader probably
rested with them, and that the development of a book reader is
detracting very little if at all from the development of window-
eyes.
Which leads right in to another thing. GW probably has to
distribute
and support the book sense or risk losing the agreements they have
with the hardware developer.
And to finish up, the book sense is the best of these players there
is
on paper. We'll see when the price emerges and we actually take
the
hardware out of the box, but HIMS and gw are developing a solid rep
for putting the most amount of hardware and the best quality into
this
stuff. I'm supposed to like humanware because I live in Canada and
they were first at a lot of this stuff and the peir pressure is
overwelming, but their hardware is built like junk. Sorry boys
it's
just a fact. Give me a nice plextor book reader any day. The
thing
is, the portable plextalk pocket doesn't compete on features nearly
as
well as it competes on quality.
I never thought I'd want to own one of these type of players, but
my
mouth is really wattering over the book sense.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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Phone: 888-255-5194
Email: [email protected]
On 22-Mar-09, at 11:29 AM, Chris Hill wrote:
Phone systems are based on recorded and digitized human voices.
They
have limited vocabularies and require a good bit of processing
power
to pull off. If you want your speech to be able to pronounce any
word, such systems just don't cut it.
Now, why gw-micro would want to jump in and be the third in the
market
of book readers, that one is beyond me. I'd much rather see bug
fixes
in window-eyes.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:01:02 -0600, you wrote:
It's sad when some of the phone auto sestem sounds better then
our
voices; and yet, they want to charge us so much.
At 03/21/2009, Mary Otten wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:58:08 -0400, Jeremy Curry wrote:
1. Voice Text from Voiceware
I'm sorry to hear that. I don't think any of the so-called high
quality
voices are all they are cracked up to be, and because they try
to
sound
human, when they fall down, they're awful. Maybe its
psychological. But
despite the fact that these voices can sound good when things
are
just
right, that condition seldom prevails, and a wanna-be human is
much
worse than a more mechanical sounding synthesizer with known but
consistent flaws. So I'm sorry that there won't be an
alternative
such
as a tripple talk chip or even Eloquence. I know that the choice
of
speech synthesizers is a personal matter. So I hope that once
this
product is out, some consideration will be given to adding
alternatives, although obviously, the hardware approach won't be
possible. Too bad, as hardware like the trippletalk is still the
snappiest, most responsive speech out there.
Mary
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