Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Aidan
Yes I stil have a rockbox and they have good advantages though. Lets hope olympus continue well furder on as they very quiet these days. On 14/03/2018, Hamit Campos wrote: > Yep. That's true. Though a lot of Blind people did use Olympus. But yes > I do remember Michael

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Hamit Campos
Yep. That's true. Though a lot of Blind people did use Olympus. But yes I do remember Michael Lang was taken a back by them making the DS 30 40 and 50 which were the first 3 to talk. I think though Olympus may have had accessibility on the mind all along since well ever since I've heard of

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Aidan
Well, yes olympus could've also asked how muc of us is using it but they stil did it, so no excuse there. And as you said, if they use a human to speak it, then they bypass the need to pay monthly for maintaining the synthesizer of choice in there models. Yes, dubbletalk is stil available, but I

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah the problem with Zoom and these other guys like Taskalm and Sound-Devices is how many blind people use the things? I kbnow not many maybe cause of them not even chiming or beeping or anything. But saddly I guess people have to use'em first before they care. Also organizations like the NFB

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Aidan
True, but honestly, I just so wish that zoom will use some of these in their recorders, even if its dubble talk just for access, but I guess I must dream on. On 14/03/2018, Hamit Campos wrote: > Besides the Dubble Talk thing was so dam hard to understand. the new > voices

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-14 Thread Hamit Campos
Besides the Dubble Talk thing was so dam hard to understand. the new voices are meh almost human sounding. Cause I doubt these synth voices will ever exactly replicate people. On 3/14/2018 4:34 AM, Aidan wrote: Well, that will be a problem then because nun of the new players are using the

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-13 Thread Pat Seed
and All the Very Best, Pat Seed - Original Message - From: "Norma A. Boge" <nab...@mchsi.com> To: <all-audio@groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 4:49 AM Subject: Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions I am a loyal customer of APH's Book Port Plus. My f

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-13 Thread Laz
Hi andrea, I know you had the original Talking Daisy Book and Media Player but depending on whether you're going to use protected or unprotected files you may find what you seek in the 2nd edition of the Talking Book Reader. It has wifi, uses SD cards, has internet radio capability as well as

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-13 Thread Andrea Sherry
Thanks for that information. I'm just attempting to contact APH to determine whether they will supply to persons outside the US. Andrea On 13/03/2018 7:49 PM, Norma A. Boge wrote: I am a loyal customer of APH's Book Port Plus. My first unit of this type was actually a Book port, if anyone

Re: [all-audio] Daisy Player Suggestions

2018-03-13 Thread Norma A. Boge
I am a loyal customer of APH's Book Port Plus. My first unit of this type was actually a Book port, if anyone remembers those. I've never had a VR Stream, the Book Port Plus does everything I need it to do, and I feel the recording capabilities are quite good.