[Reader-users] Hullo

[Jacob Kruger]

No worries.

You'll see my other posts.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- 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: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Hullo


> At present, the KNFB Reader is dedicated to the Reader function. In
> other words, the answer is NO.
>
> Mike
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Jacob Kruger
>  To: Reader-Users
>  Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:25 AM
>  Subject: [Reader-users] Hullo
>
>
>  Hi there.
>
>  Although I did in fact get my KNFB Reader around July/August last year
> in
>  London, UK, for whatever reason, I only got around to looking into a
> mailing
>  list for 'users' around now, but anyway...
>
>  FWIW, I live in South Africa, and I don't think there are many other
> guys
>  this side with the KNFB Reader, but that's not really relevant unless
> you
>  try something like getting it to read one of our other languages (I
> think we
>  literally have something like around 7 official languages).
>
>  Anyway, I do keep an 'eye' on the website, so I have already carried
> out the
>  software upgrade to 3.8.1, and it is definitely somewhat better than
> it was
>  in the beginning, especially with regard to now being able to read
>  alternative colour schemes, like average menus etc. - just still wish
> it
>  could read handwriting, but I know that's almost impossible.
>
>  Now, my first question...
>
>  Is there any way to get it to play MP3 files? Do they simply need to
> be
>  converted into some other format?  Do I just need to put them in some
>  specific place on that memory card? Do I need to rename them into
> something
>  specific?  Do they need to be converted into a specific range of
> quality
>  rates (kbps)?
>
>  I just think that it would be something nice to be able to use the PDA
> for
>  since it could actually read you the relevant file name etc. where my
> normal
>  MP3 player just starts automatically playing the songs.
>
>  Anyway, I might just be being dilly asking something like this, but
> anyway -
>  the reason it popped up in my head recently is because a woman I was
> helping
>  to train on a PC had the BookCourier PDA, and she can play MP3s on it
> as
>  well as doing her own TTS stuff from text files etc.
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>  Jacob Kruger
>  Blind Biker
>  Skype: BlindZA
>  '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
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