Thanks for the great news Keith!
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From: "Keith Gillard" <kgill...@shaw.ca>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Subject: Fw: HumanWare Unveils Victor Reader Stream 3.0
FYI.
HUMANWARE UNVEILS VICTOR READER STREAM 3.0
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Los Angeles California, March 17, 2009 -- Today at the annual CSUN
technology conference in Los Angeles, HumanWare announced the latest
version
of its popular Victor Reader Stream DAISY NISO book player, MP3 player,
and
voice recorder. The latest release of software for the Stream is version
3.0. It is a free upgrade software for the tens of thousands of users who
now enjoy their Stream worldwide.
Version 3.0 is a major release packed with new features that continue to
distinguish the Stream as the industry leader among pocket size accessible
players. Version 3.0 responds to popular requests received from many
Stream
customers. New features include:
• Multi-level bookshelf navigation for Other Books, Podcasts, and Text.
Now
you can optionally organize these bookshelves into multiple levels of
folders and navigate at those levels.
• Multi-level folder navigation within Music files. For example, now you
could choose to organize your music by levels such as genre, artist, and
album and navigate at those levels to more quickly find your desired
music.
• Further you can now instantly create temporary playlists of any subset
of
your music collection and limit Random play to only that portion of your
music.
• Moreover, you can turn random play on or off with a single key press
like
many commercial MP3 players.
• Text Search. Yes, now you can enter words to search for in your text
files
or text-only DAISY books.
• Bookmark alert. You can enable an optional bookmark alert feature to
notify you when you are playing a book and pass over a previously
bookmarked
position. It will even automatically announce your audio bookmarks.
• Two text-to-speech voices. The English version of Stream 3.0 will now
include both a male and female text-to-speech voice.
• A 30 minute Time Jump feature and many other usability improvements have
been added.
"With the increasing use of 8gb, 16, and even 32gb storage cards, users
are
managing ever increasing amounts of data on their Stream", says Gerry
Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager. "With thousands of music files
and
hundreds of podcasts or text files they have asked us to provide more
efficient navigation and version 3 delivers just that."
Says Chevalier, "The improved navigation as well as the bookmark alert,
text
search and other usability improvements in Stream 3.0 renews HumanWare's
commitment to our Stream customers that we would continue to enhance the
Stream over time to maximize their Stream investment."
And there's more. HumanWare is pleased to announce that Stream 3.0 will
also
be accompanied by a completely new-look Stream Companion software. The new
Stream Companion 3.0 Windows software has a completely new menu driven
interface, support for the new Bookshare zip format, and more.
HumanWare expects to have both the Stream 3.0 and Companion 3.0 available
for free download before the end of March. The software will be made
available on the Stream Support Page
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