I realise that some folks may think that some of are perhaps hyping
this device a bit too much, but I must say I am impressed by the
frequency of update to the firmware of the pocket. And I believe
these are really meaningful changes especially the WMA support.
Plextor definitely seems to have gotten it right on this one.
Andre
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Subject: Fw: Blind Computer Users Plextalk Pocket ptp1 version 3.0
firmwarenow available.
FYI....G-Dog!
plextalk pocket firmware.
Release note
7 October, 2009
PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 version 3 Released.
Read more texts and books with fast navigation.
PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 Firmware Upgrade: Version 3 Shinano Kenshi
Co.,
Ltd.
and Plextor are pleased to announce the release of PLEXTALK Pocket
PTP1 new
firmware, Version 3.
Version 3 has added more format support: Microsoft Word .doc and
WMA
(Windows Media Audio)*.
* Pocket PTP1 supports only unprotected WMA at present.
The playable content/formats on PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 Version 3 are:
Daisy 2.02, ANSI/NISO Z39.86/DAISY 3.0, NLS, Bookshare, RFB&D TXT,
HTML, DOC
MP3, WAV, AMR-MB+, DAISY ADPCM2, OGG, WMA unprotected Version 3 has
more
simplified operation and is more intuitive such as:
Faster key response,
Option to suppress a key sound after pressing, Announce file/folder
name as
audio track/album name Automatic bookmark numbering More features
have been
added on Version 3 for your easy navigation, recording sound
quality
and
others.
7 languages are available currently with Version 3 and other
language
versions will be released accordingly.
For more details, please see the release note.
[Pocket PTP1] Firmware Upgrade: Version 3.00 New Contents Support
Microsoft
Word .doc file support: To read a Microsoft Word .doc file on SD
card or USB
flash memory by the TTS engine. Pocket PTP1 categorizes MS
Word .doc
in
'text'.
WMA (Window Media Audio) support: To play back unprotected WMA
format audio
files on SD card or USB flash memory.
Bookshare book playback improvement: To announce the title name
of a
Bookshare book.
To navigate a Bookshare book by page properly.
More Simplified and Intuitive Operations All key responses have
been
improved. A key confirmation sound or a voice prompt comes up more
quickly
after pressing a key (fast forward, rewind, level navigation,
direct
title/content jump, menu selection, etc.).
New option to eliminate the sounds made after key press. On 'Select
the Key
Press Confirmation Sound' of 'System Settings' on the Menu, you can
choose
those sound 'On' or 'Off'
Announce an album/track name of audio content. On 'Reading audio
file name'
of 'Playback
Settings' of the Menu, you can choose the announcing options of
either 'Read
Album/Track Name' or 'Read Album/Track Number'. Pocket PTP1
announces a
folder name where the audio content is stored as the album name,
and
a file
name without the file extension as the track name of the audio
content.
Automatic bookmark numbering. If you do not want to determine the
number of
a bookmark you are going to set, just press the Bookmark Key twice
then
press the Enter Key, so Pocket PTP1 will automatically give the
smallest
bookmark number you were not using. If you press the '0' Key and
the
Enter
Key after you press the Bookmark Key twice, Pocket PTP1 will also
give you
the smallest number automatically.
Changed the title/folder/category announcements. When you select a
title
after pressing the Title Key, Pocket PTP1 makes simple
announcements
than
the previous versions.
And when you want to select a folder by pressing the 'Up' Key
following the
Title Key, Pocket PTP1 announces the folder name.
Play text files more naturally when going to the next line.
Changed the order of the items in 'System Settings' of the Menu.
'Initialize
all settings to default' has been moved to the last item.
More Powerful Navigation
Added two navigation levels for text playback; 'line' and 'screen'.
1) Forty
words or 2) less than forty words before a carriage return have
been
defined
as a 'line'.
Forty lines has been defined as a 'screen'.
Now you can navigate a text file by screen, paragraph, line,
sentence, word
or character., and a DAISY title by heading (level 1 to 6), group,
page,
phrase, screen, paragraph, line, sentence, word or character if
such
items
are defined on the DAISY title.
Added a DAISY-like level navigation feature for html files by
recognizing H1
through
H6 heading levels.
Recording and Playing Feature Enhancement Improved the recording
sound
quality by MP3 for DAISY recording and voice memo.
Added MP3 high-quality modes on 'Back-up' of music CD. After
pressing the
'9' Key to back up a music CD on a CD drive connected to Pocket
PTP1, you
can select
'MP3
256kbps high-quality' or 'MP3 128kbps high-quality' in addition to
the
previous modes,
'MP3 256kbps', 'MP3 128kbps' and 'PCM'. When you select either of
the two
modes, you can back up better sound quality music titles into a SD
card.
Please note that those modes need 20% to 90% more time to back up
the music
than the previous
MP3
modes.
Enhanced the compatibility with variety of MP3 formats.
To announce decryption key information on the Menu. After you
install a key
to decrypt a PDTB title (for example, books from NLS or RFB&D), you
can
check whether the key has been installed properly by hearing this
announcement. The announcement is heard on 'System Properties' of
'System
Settings' on the Menu.
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