[gui-talk] Fwd: HumanWare Unveils Victor Reader Stream 3.0

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    Keith Gillard kgillard at shaw.ca
 To:      PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio at pc-audio.org

FYI.

HUMANWARE UNVEILS VICTOR READER STREAM 3.0

Los Angeles California, March 17, 2009 -- Today at the annual CSUN 
technology conference in Los Angeles, HumanWare announced the latest version 
of its popular Victor Reader Stream DAISY NISO book player, MP3 player, and 
voice recorder. The latest release of software for the Stream is version 
3.0. It is a free upgrade software for the tens of thousands of users who 
now enjoy their Stream worldwide.

Version 3.0 is a major release packed with new features that continue to 
distinguish the Stream as the industry leader among pocket size accessible 
players. Version 3.0 responds to popular requests received from many Stream 
customers. New features include:

• Multi-level bookshelf navigation for Other Books, Podcasts, and Text. Now 
you can optionally organize these bookshelves into multiple levels of 
folders and navigate at those levels.
• Multi-level folder navigation within Music files. For example, now you 
could choose to organize your music by levels such as genre, artist, and 
album and navigate at those levels to more quickly find your desired music.
• Further you can now instantly create temporary playlists of any subset of 
your music collection and limit Random play to only that portion of your 
music.
• Moreover, you can turn random play on or off with a single key press like 
many commercial MP3 players.
• Text Search. Yes, now you can enter words to search for in your text files 
or text-only DAISY books.
• Bookmark alert. You can enable an optional bookmark alert feature to 
notify you when you are playing a book and pass over a previously bookmarked 
position. It will even automatically announce your audio bookmarks.
• Two text-to-speech voices. The English version of Stream 3.0 will now 
include both a male and female text-to-speech voice.
• A 30 minute Time Jump feature and many other usability improvements have 
been added.


"With the increasing use of 8gb, 16, and even 32gb storage cards, users are 
managing ever increasing amounts of data on their Stream", says Gerry 
Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager. "With thousands of music files and 
hundreds of podcasts or text files they have asked us to provide more 
efficient navigation and version 3 delivers just that."

Says Chevalier, "The improved navigation as well as the bookmark alert, text 
search and other usability improvements in Stream 3.0 renews HumanWare's 
commitment to our Stream customers that we would continue to enhance the 
Stream over time to maximize their Stream investment."

And there's more. HumanWare is pleased to announce that Stream 3.0 will also 
be accompanied by a completely new-look Stream Companion software. The new 
Stream Companion 3.0 Windows software has a completely new menu driven 
interface, support for the new Bookshare zip format, and more.

HumanWare expects to have both the Stream 3.0 and Companion 3.0 available 
for free download before the end of March. The software will be made 
available on the Stream Support Page.-------------------

Regards Steve
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