Tom, by It, are you asking about the Blaze ET or the I-phone. I
hope to check out a Blaze ET in a couple of weeks if the dealer
gets it back from the Sacramento Society, Jim WA6EKS
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:16:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Blaze ET
If anyone tries this and actually gets it to work, I'd be very
interested,
since I use the second-generation VRStream as my main book reader
at this
time.
Have an iPhone 6, but haven't yet tried the BARD mobile ap with
voice-over.
Will hopefully get to that one of these days.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Russ Kiehne
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 11:08 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Blaze ET
Here's something from the Top Tech Tidbits newsletter many victor
reader
stream users will be interested in.
Codex is a free, donation-ware e-book conversion tool. With
Codex, you can
take the books you've legally purchased from sites like Amazon,
Smashwords,
and popular eBook stores using Adobe Digital Editions or Barnes &
Noble via
NookStudy and convert them to a format of your choice, be it ePub
for
reading on the latest devices, plain text to read in Notepad, or
any of the
other supported output formats:
http://jscholes.net/project/codex/
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 7:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Blaze ET
Both the Streams work well - I think that the internet options on
the Stream
are extremely well thought out and implemented. My kids bought
me an iPod
Touch for my birthday and I have both the Kindle and NLS apps.
on it. Both
are easy and work very well. The KNFB reader is like any OCR
app. You have
to be steady and patient and you will get decent results.
I have an A P H Bookport Plus which I will be selling soon. Not
really
using it and I never got the hang of the Internet feature. And
you can
really have too many readers!
Pat, K9JAUAt 09:06 AM 12/5/2015, you wrote:
Hi,
I have a VR Stream second gen and I love it. It is much louder
than my
Nexus 6 phone and easier to use.
Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
On 12/5/2015 9:26 AM, Butch Bussen wrote:
You are right, but that assumes you can get use to the touch
screens
on these devices, and I never have, just not comfortable. I
need
keys or buttons. Some day I'm going to take my IPod out and
blow it
away with my judge. Question is should I use a 45 hollow point
or 410.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On Fri, 4
Dec 2015, Russ Kiehne wrote:
In my case, I'm using an ipad mini first generation. It does
everything the
Blaze will do minus the ocr. It has more volume, better sound
than my first
generation Stream, plextalk pocket and Booksense standard. Much
better battery life than my specialized devices. It does
everything a
Stream will
do and a lot more. You can buy a 6th generation ipod touch and
KNFB reader
and do everything a Blaze will do and a lot more for half the
price
of the Blaze.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jordan Gallacher
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 7:04 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Blaze ET
The Hims Inc. book players are far better than the Stream.
First
and foremost, the Stream does not get loud enough to be able to
be
heard well without using earbuds or external speakers. That was
and still
is the main
reason I will not go near the Stream unless this has been fixed
recently, and I don't know about it. The one product I have of
HumanWare's started having problems very early after I got it,
and
HumanWare would not help me figure out the problem nor take it
in
to be looked at even though at the time, there was still plenty
of
warranty left on it. Hims Inc. has always been helpful, and my
BookCense is still working as well as it
did almost six
years ago when I purchased it, and I am planning on purchasing a
Blaze at some point when money allows.
Jordan
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Russ Kiehne
Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 8:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
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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