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Jim, you'll definitely want some kind of stand for holding the Blaze when
reading. Its free hand ocr is completely worthless. However, the new upgrade
is supposed to help with that but I still have to et it installed.
Tom
Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Jim Gammon wrote:
> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:22:21 -0800
> From: Jim Gammon <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Blaze ET
>
> Hi and thanks Russ. I don't have a smart phone which as I
> understand, has a pretty good OCR app for either Android or
> I-phone. That is what I am most interested in with the Blaze.
> You are right about the Stream having a much better interface for
> internet radio etc. than the Plextalk. I have both but have
> forgotten how to use the streaming radio on the Plextalk since
> getting the new Stream. Btw, I found some Hawaiian PD streams on
> the VR Stream I Think using the search word broadcastify. Still
> haven't found NASA TV audio. 73, Jim WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Russ Kiehne <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:52:32 -0800
> Subject: Re: Blaze ET
>
> Here are some things to be aware of about the Blaze. internet
> radio and
> downloading podcasts work very much like the bookport plus and
> plextalk
> pocket.
> The Stream has a much better implementation of internet radio and
> podcasts.
> I
> feel that the Stream has a better way of organizing it's content.
> At this point in time, the Blaze won't play content from Audible.
> Learning
> Ally has no plans at this point in time to support playback of
> there content
> on the Blaze. The Blaze doesn't have NFB Newsline like the
> Stream.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gammon
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 1:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Blaze ET
>
> Hi list, just wondering if any of you have experience with the
> Blaze ET unit
> that has OCR built in as well as a host of other ways to read
> stuff?
> Thanks, Jim WA6EKS
>
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