[Reader-users] official newbie

[James Jolley]

What an impressive concept. Object recognition was something I had herd 
talked about but not really saw as valuable. It's a good point for 
discussion that, what uses what that function have?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert stigile" <rstigile at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader userlist" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] official newbie


> Hello,
> What was demonstrated at the exhibit hall table was the updated
> version which was being distributed if you had your sd card with
> you.
> When Ray Kurtzweil demonstrated the reader on Thursday, he was
> using a software version that is not available yet.
> He was demonstrating what will be in the future, so when it said
> that the cup was a cup and the pill bottle was whatever it said,
> that is from a version that will be available very soon, but not
> yet.
> The new current version allows you to read different types of
> colored backgrounds, such as light text with dark background.
> I hope this helps,
>
> Robert Stigile
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com
>>To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user
> list"<reader-users at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:15:52 -0400
>>Subject: Re: [Reader-users] official newbie
>
>>What do you mean? Are you saying that the demo version at the
> convention was
>>using software not available? That would indeed be annoying.  But
> I am having
>>great fun reading the docs and poking around.  Thanks for any
> pointers you
>>might have.
>>--le
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
>>To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
>><reader-users at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 5:13 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Reader-users] official newbie
>
>
>>Laura:
>
>>The pill-bottle-reading was using software not yet available to
> regular
>>Reader users yet so you may still have difficulty.  However, the
> new
>>software on the current Reader does read far, far more stuff then
>>previously so think you'll still enjoy it.
>
>>Mike
>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Laura Eaves
>>  To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
>>  Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:03 AM
>>  Subject: [Reader-users] official newbie
>
>
>>  Hi all! -- Well I am home from the convention and am now the
> proud
>>owner of
>>  one of these knfb readers! It is still in the box but I will
>>definitely be
>>  playing with my new toy soon -- I am hoping on hope that it
> will be as
>>  useful as I think it could be.  At the convention, it read an
> aspirin
>>bottle
>>  label with no trouble at all, despite the tight curve of the
> bottle
>>surface.
>>  It also read everything on a form with several different fonts.
>
>>  I must say, though, that I had a hard time choosing between the
> knfb
>>and the
>>  other reader "MobileEyes" from Gorilla Inc.  The latter also
> performed
>>very
>>  well.  The difference between it and the knfb was that it did a
> lot
>>more
>>  things -- actually is a pda and also does screen magnification
> in
>>addition
>>  to speech -- and all that for a thousand dollars more than the
>>kurzweil.  It
>>  has some really nice features, but I concluded that for me, I
> would
>>not be
>>  able to use the screen mag, an I already have a talking pda,
> and all I
>>  really wanted was the scanning/reading functionality, so the
> knfb was
>>what I
>>  got.
>
>>  I do wish the other company well though.  Thay have some nice
> ideas.
>>  Another ting that concerned me though was that the MobileEyes
> reader
>>was
>>  only unveiled in Jan of this year.  I decided it was probably
> safest
>>to go
>>  with the one that has the initial bugs fixed.
>>  Anyway, more later after I get it sset up.
>>  Alas, I have to go in to the oral surgeon in a few hours to get
> a
>>tooth
>>  extracted, but maybe when that's done I can set up my reader to
> forget
>>about
>>  the pain...*frown*
>>  Take care!*smile*
>>  --le
>
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