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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