Hello everybody I just took the plunge and decided to replace my now pretty much useless HumanWare Victor Reader Stream. I looked at the Victor Reader Stratus, but I dismissed that option as it suffers from most of the drawbacks which have effectively killed off the Victor Reader Stream.
For example, the playlists for Internet Radio accessibility are static, and most of them no longer work. The BBC iPlayer killed off the old style playlists for UK radio and even the US and Australian radio services are largely no longer functional. There is quite a lot actually that I don’t like about the way HumanWare’s devices work. And what I’ve read about the Blaze ET is, to my way of thinking at least, a far better option. It also offers OCR built-in, which is the primary reason that I opted to go with any solution. The rest of it is nice, but not really essential. But I am a talking book producer now as well as a reader, so I need to be sure that what I’m producing for my client is something that will work on most devices. Actually, my client still insists on distributing their audio material on CD which, to be honest, baffles me. Most of today’s talking book players don’t even handle CD’s at all. So I was astonished when they rejected out of hand my suggestion of moving over to USB thumb drives and maybe even online download as a better method of distribution. They say that they use audio CD’s and the only suggestion of updating that they have taken onboard is to allow me to produce the books in DAISY format rather than plain old audio tracks. But be that as it may, my interest here is the Blaze ET which I’ve just ordered. Has anybody on list tried that unit? I’m told that it is a superior option to the Blaze EZ, because it’s keyboard layout is superior and it has more functions. As a point of discussion, comment welcome. ======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist. Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7907 823971 ————————————————————
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
