[gui-talk] Fwd: Blind Computer Users Plextalk Pocket ptp1 version 3.0 firmware now available.

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    G-Dog lucifur at shaw.ca
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FYI....G-Dog!

plextalk pocket firmware.

Release note
7 October, 2009
PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 version 3 Released.
Read more texts and books with fast navigation.
PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 Firmware Upgrade: Version 3
Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd. and Plextor are pleased to announce the release of 
PLEXTALK
Pocket PTP1 new firmware, Version 3.
Version 3 has added more format support: Microsoft Word .doc and WMA 
(Windows Media
Audio)*.
* Pocket PTP1 supports only unprotected WMA at present.
The playable content/formats on PLEXTALK Pocket PTP1 Version 3 are:
Daisy 2.02, ANSI/NISO Z39.86/DAISY 3.0, NLS, Bookshare, RFB&D
TXT, HTML, DOC
MP3, WAV, AMR-MB+, DAISY ADPCM2, OGG, WMA unprotected
Version 3 has more simplified operation and is more intuitive such as:
Faster key response,
Option to suppress a key sound after pressing,
Announce file/folder name as audio track/album name
Automatic bookmark numbering
More features have been added on Version 3 for your easy navigation, 
recording sound
quality and others.
7 languages are available currently with Version 3 and other language 
versions will
be released accordingly.
For more details, please see the release note.
[Pocket PTP1] Firmware Upgrade: Version 3.00
New Contents Support
Microsoft Word .doc file support: To read a Microsoft Word .doc file on SD 
card or
USB flash memory by the TTS engine. Pocket PTP1 categorizes MS Word .doc in 
'text'.
WMA (Window Media Audio) support: To play back unprotected WMA format audio 
files
on SD card or USB flash memory.
Bookshare book playback improvement: To announce the title name of a 
Bookshare book.
To navigate a Bookshare book by page properly.
More Simplified and Intuitive Operations
All key responses have been improved. A key confirmation sound or a voice 
prompt
comes up more quickly after pressing a key (fast forward, rewind, level 
navigation,
direct title/content jump, menu selection, etc.).
New option to eliminate the sounds made after key press. On 'Select the Key 
Press
Confirmation Sound' of 'System Settings' on the Menu, you can choose those 
sound
'On' or 'Off'
Announce an album/track name of audio content. On 'Reading audio file name' 
of 'Playback
Settings' of the Menu, you can choose the announcing options of either 'Read 
Album/Track
Name' or 'Read Album/Track Number'. Pocket PTP1 announces a folder name 
where the
audio content is stored as the album name, and a file name without the file 
extension
as the track name of the audio content.
Automatic bookmark numbering. If you do not want to determine the number of 
a bookmark
you are going to set, just press the Bookmark Key twice then press the Enter 
Key,
so Pocket PTP1 will automatically give the smallest bookmark number you were 
not
using. If you press the '0' Key and the Enter Key after you press the 
Bookmark Key
twice, Pocket PTP1 will also give you the smallest number automatically.
Changed the title/folder/category announcements. When you select a title 
after pressing
the Title Key, Pocket PTP1 makes simple announcements than the previous 
versions.
And when you want to select a folder by pressing the 'Up' Key following the 
Title
Key, Pocket PTP1 announces the folder name.
Play text files more naturally when going to the next line.
Changed the order of the items in 'System Settings' of the Menu. 'Initialize 
all
settings to default' has been moved to the last item.
More Powerful Navigation
Added two navigation levels for text playback; 'line' and 'screen'. 1) Forty 
words
or 2) less than forty words before a carriage return have been defined as a 
'line'.
Forty lines has been defined as a 'screen'.
Now you can navigate a text file by screen, paragraph, line, sentence, word 
or character.,
and a DAISY title by heading (level 1 to 6), group, page, phrase, screen, 
paragraph,
line, sentence, word or character if such items are defined on the DAISY 
title.
Added a DAISY-like level navigation feature for html files by recognizing H1 
through
H6 heading levels.
Recording and Playing Feature Enhancement
Improved the recording sound quality by MP3 for DAISY recording and voice 
memo.
Added MP3 high-quality modes on 'Back-up' of music CD. After pressing the 
'9' Key
to back up a music CD on a CD drive connected to Pocket PTP1, you can select 
'MP3
256kbps high-quality' or 'MP3 128kbps high-quality' in addition to the 
previous modes,
'MP3 256kbps', 'MP3 128kbps' and 'PCM'. When you select either of the two 
modes,
you can back up better sound quality music titles into a SD card. Please 
note that
those modes need 20% to 90% more time to back up the music than the previous 
MP3
modes.
Enhanced the compatibility with variety of MP3 formats.
To announce decryption key information on the Menu. After you install a key 
to decrypt
a PDTB title (for example, books from NLS or RFB&D), you can check whether 
the key
has been installed properly by hearing this announcement. The announcement 
is heard
on 'System Properties' of 'System Settings' on the Menu.

Regards Steve
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