[Reader-users] More Reader Quirks and Observations

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Some good observations.
I have more to add --
but mostly a rave about how well it has been working -- I snapped a picture 
of the front page of a newspaper this afternoon and it read me an article, 
no major errors, plus the title and issue number and some other stuff.  I 
also thought the speech quality was extremely good -- i.e., inflection and 
speed and all.  I was impressed.  It did say something about text being cut 
off on left and right, but since it had no problem reading the text, 
apparently the text wasn't broken up on the page so what it read was 
correct.
I also tried again reading some directionson a bottle and it failed -- it 
did read most all the text, but the numbers, which were probably stamped in 
after the label was printed, didn't read well, to the point where I had to 
get sighted assistance to read the amounts.  It did read the words around 
these numbers, but not the numbers.
I have been (perhaps foolishly) living by the philosophy "when all else 
fails, read the instructions"... and since the reader has not been failing 
in most cases, I have not taken the opportunity to read about positioning 
the camera and other things that might be of assistance -- however I have 
found that the distance from the page at which to take an optimal picture is 
less with the mobile reader than the classic, which is fine except that it 
makes the stand even less useful for the mobile reader than it might have 
been -- I was thinking to save some expense for those looking to sell their 
stands, it might be worthwhile to create a cradle for the phone to sit on 
top the stand like the classic did, for reading a lot of text, but I have 
not tried doing this as yet.

I am still very happy with the reader -- even if it couldn't read my shampoo 
bottle correctly -- (no, I'm not blond *smile*).
Thanks to the developers for a good job.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [Reader-users] More Reader Quirks and Observations


I've noticed some other quirks and possible bugs with the reader.

1. When pressing 1 for help, pressing the star key cancels help. The 
instructions say to press the help key again to exit help but make no 
mention of the star key. Personally, I think star should give help text like 
the others.

2. While processing an image, if a call is received, an error 21 is envoked 
and spoken to me during the call. I believe this may have been reported 
before.

3. Also while processing, sometimes the messages similar to "text cut off on 
right" are repeated multiple times.

4. Since the viewfinder is disabled during reading, pressing the number 3 
once acts as a cancel button, but no feedback is given. If a user presses 3 
twice, the viewfinder is turned on and text is lost. I would recommend the 
viewfinder key simply be totally disabled as advertised as to not effect 
reading.

5. Sometimes when processing, a double beep is heard, which seems to happen 
if two processes are happening simultaneously, probably because the first 
one wasn't properly canceled.

Thanks as always for a great product.

J.J.
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