Hi Sarah,
I've been getting the nfb newsline via email for around a year now.
Daisy is a great format for navigating through something such as a
newspaper, and I've been extremely disapointed at the performance of the
daisy player in my Voicesense. Personally, I find it almost impossible
to navigate from one item to the next or from one section of the paper
to the next.
The daisy player is the one area of the vs which really needs serious
work sooner rather than later.
The daisy format has a lot of advantages, but it really seems to lack in
player support.
I don't even bother with daisy on the voicesense, but rather use the
stream. What's unfortunate is that I also have a syncbraille and really
would prefer reading the nfb papers in braille as opposed to listening
to a synthesized voice.
So, I'd say your best bet for now is to listen to the newspapers and
magazines using your vr stream and let's hope the sense notetakers have
a usable player in the very near future.
Sorry to be so negative about this, as it really is the only area of the
sense notetakers with which I actually find fault.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:51 PM
Subject: [GWN] can the sense notetakers download and open newspapers and
magazines from NFB newsline with no problems?
Hi Raul and List:
The other day I registered to join the free newspaper and magazine
service from NFB called NFB Newsline. You can read local and national
newspapers, and some magazines via your touch tone phone. They also
provide a service that they can e-mail the newspapers and magazines
that you want to read to your e-mail in Daisy format as well. When I
was signing up for the newspaper delivery to my e-mail, I had
difficulty registering for it online. So I contacted a customer
service person at NFB Newsline. He asked me where I'd primarly read
the newspapers. I said on my notetaker the Braille Sense, my Victor
reader stream, and my desk top PC. The customer service person
contacted me back and said "we heard that the newspapers don't
download well and work well on the Braille Sense notetakers." Does
anyone know if this is true or not? Has anyone tried reading
newspapers from Nfb Newsline on their Sense notetakers? If so, did
they download, open well, and read well in the Daisy player? When I
first received my Braille Sense I tried to download and open Bookshare
books in Daisy format in the Daisy player of the Braille Sense. It
didn't work well at all. So I learned just to download and open the
BRF files when I download, open, and unpack books from Bookshare. I
have upgraded my Braille Sense to version 5.0, but I haven't updated
to the latest version, because I don't want to mess with the Bata
form. I want to wait for the stable permanent latest version, and
that might be ready to download by now. Right now I have a loaner
Braille Sense, because mine is being repaired because some of the pins
got bent in the wireless card slot. So until it returns repaired to
me, I don't want to download a lot of things on to the loaner Braille
Sense.
Thanks for putting up with my long-winded explanation and questions.
I look forward into hearing people's responses to my question.
Sarah
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