[duxuser] Re: Off Topic---NEED HELP WITH MP3 Players for Audio Textbooks
- From: "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" <birkir.gunnarsson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:36:55 +0000
Jean
Look for accessible poartable Daisy players, they all play mp3/wma,
some play ogg, wav, flac etc.
The selection is:
Victor Reader Stream from Humanware
Milestone 312 from Bones
Plextalk Pocket and Book Port Plus, both made by MacKenso corp, I
think (spelling might be slightly off there, the Book Port Plus is
designed by APH), same hardware but slightly different software.
Booksense
All of these players come with built in TTS engines and can
handle/read most file formats, though different types handle different
file formats.
The price range is $300 to $450 pretty much for all.
Pltextalk Pocket allows you to set bookmarks in recordings as you make
them, which is really cool. I think all of them allow bookmarks in
Daisy books. The Milestone is by far the smallest (size of a thick
credit card, whereas the VR Stream is the size of a Nokia cell phone,
N86 ish).
You can google these, ILA (Independent Living Aids) has probably most
of them in stock.
There is a different service, I believe the website is
www.accessiblemp3players.com, run by guys who set up the Rockbox
firmware on commercial mp3 players and make them accessible. These,
however, do not read Daisy format or have a built in TTS engine, but
the cost is around $50 to $100.
Sansa Fuze is a popular model, but they have quite a few.
You can use software Daisy players on the iPhone/iPod/iPad, Read2Go
from Bookshare, VOD (Voice of Daisy), and there is one made in
Australia, all in the app store for around $5 to $20 I believe.
I can send you a list off-line if you want to explore it.
Again, I hope others may have benefitted, so I posted to the list.
I won't respond again, as I know off-topic messages are not popular
with list admins, but you can contact me privately if you want more
information.
I do not represent any of the hardware of software players in
question, I have owned a Booksense (not impressed), Milestone (big
fan, though I know there are a few limitations such as lack of
bookmarking and slightly high price tag of $449), and I have tested
all the others.
Thanks and be well.
-Birkir
On 5/16/11, Jean Green <jegreen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hello All...
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> I have a question to which I hope someone out there has the answer. We have
> a student that suddenly went blind. He's in high school and will not
> benefit from learning Braille at this time. (He in AP classes & his schedule
> is full) He needs everything in AUDIO. The problem is that finding an AUDIO
> player (MP3) that is easily accessed and will accept textbooks is difficult.
> Has anyone had any success with audio textbooks on an MP3 player? With
> formating them? Please contact me off list ASAP. I can use all the help I
> can get. If you can direct me to a website that would help, I'd appreciate
> that too.
>
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> We have access to RFB & Bookshare, but we also have some of the textbooks in
> audio from the publisher.
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> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Jean Green
>
> JeGreen@xxxxxxxx<mailto:JeGreen@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Braille, Large Print & RFB
>
> Sped/Vision/Scottsdale Unified Schools
>
> Arizona
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