You’re missing just one very important aspect here Dane. All talking books are not created equal. I still believe that, for those with a range of disabilities, (including vision impairment), DAISY products still have a great deal to offer. Particularly in view of the fact that it can contain multimedia, not just textual or spoken audio. And that’s where some of the dedicated technologies win through.
======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 9 Nov 2017, at 02:23, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: I'd like to take a slightly different tac if I may and pose a question, I wonder how relevant all these talking book player this and talking book player that may be in the future with the advent of Amazon Echo, Google Home and so on. I find myself reading more books with my Amazon Echo these days through audible though Audible too does have some disadvantages but in the main Amazon Echo is a truly delightful tool for book reading. Issue voice commands to navigate through your book, bookmark, set sleep timers and so on. On 11/9/2017 7:08 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > Read the article. The primary differences are convenience and > all-in-the-same-place functionality. David’s point is valid, regarding > swiping around. Certainly on iOS it is, at any rate. But I’m not so sure that > an Android user who knows their way around the system would find it such a > chore. This is due, in my opinion, to the fact that the entire interface > under Android is consistently better than it is under iOS. > > But again, if the user is happy with iOS, then more power to them. > > ======================================== > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <gor...@mac-access.net <mailto:gor...@mac-access.net>> > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. > > This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid > printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! > > Contact: > > • UK Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > • UK Geographic / Global: > +44(0) 1642 688095 > • UK Mobile/SMS: > +44 (0)7804 983849 > • Vic. Australia: > +61 38 82059300 > • US/Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > > ---------------------------------------- > On 8 Nov 2017, at 19:48, joe quinn <jdawg1...@gmail.com > <mailto:jdawg1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > what's the difference between ios and the stream then? you can do the same > thing with ios devices that you can with the stream > -- ********** "For the gardener nothing is more handier than bulbs, I mean the one's you put in the ground and not the electric light one's." **********
