Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Hi David ? Agreed and going on the huge number of posts on the victor group regarding the problems with audible sink and connecting different gadgets to audible when there is a far simpler way of getting those books and I must add that a lot of the books I read are from audible and are shared in various different ways, I can’t be hassled to try and connect my vr stream to audible, it is so easy to use open audible and just copy the books to my sd card. For some people things are over complicated, its great having the facilities on the devices to give me the choice but not when it can be broken so easily in an up-date or by audible themselves if they so choose. So many people want audible on their stream but it is too fiddly. Having it on our phones is easier because you can just log-in and away you go. Incidentally, I read my books on my stream or evo but not on my phones. ???? ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Griffith via groups.io
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 3:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? The main reason I use Open Audible? ?is for Access reasons. Unless I can amplify these books, they are literally unlistenable for me. However, the whole Audible model irks me for other reasons. Over more than a decade I have quote “bought” nearly 600 books from Audible, yet I currently own none of them. At any time, Amazon could decide they no longer want me as a customer and I would lose rights to all these purchases, with no rights in their terms and conditions to access them. Similarly, if I die, not inconceivable at my age, ???????all my investment in Amazon digital media, both Kindle and Audible disappear, according to their terms, ?into smoke with no rights of inheritance for anybody for the thousands of pounds I have invested over the last 20 years or so. So we are unacceptably vulnerable to Amazon in any dispute, and we are completely unable to will our investments to others in the way other purchases ?can be included in an Estate. This unacceptable situation is empowered by Audibles near monopoly position in the Audio Book market, with only small inroads? made by more ethical companies like Libro.Fm. ? David Griffith ? ? Interesting to have confirmation that Open Audible is unofficial.? I can see why people use and like it, but I think I'd rather go the official route, but yet to see how well it works, and I have also to explore what Audible offers and would be interested to know of folks? experience with Audible and avoiding having books de-activated as I believe some have experienced. ? On a different subject, and one that could have a thread of its own, I notice the VR3 has imported podcast feeds from the podcasts I was subscribed to on my old Victor Trek.? Anyone else seen this happen? ? Ray. ? On 02/05/2024 10:00 pm, David Griffith via groups.io wrote: Yes – I use it all the time. David Griffith ? ? Hi Ray It connects to the audible folder or library so it must be official, I find it much easier, open the open audible program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books, converts them and puts them in a folder under c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it, ?17 or something like that. ? ? ? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Hi David
This is why I use OpenAudible or InAudible to download Audible books. Once they are downloaded and copied it does not matter what happens to Audible, because I have them in MP3 format.
I will not buy Kindle books any more as I cannot convert them to .txt files.
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
I actually agree with you here David. You are not buying the books, you are renting them, effectively. ? All the best
Steve
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Griffith via groups.io
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 3:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? The main reason I use Open Audible? ?is for Access reasons. Unless I can amplify these books, they are literally unlistenable for me. However, the whole Audible model irks me for other reasons. Over more than a decade I have quote “bought” nearly 600 books from Audible, yet I currently own none of them. At any time, Amazon could decide they no longer want me as a customer and I would lose rights to all these purchases, with no rights in their terms and conditions to access them. Similarly, if I die, not inconceivable at my age, ???????all my investment in Amazon digital media, both Kindle and Audible disappear, according to their terms, ?into smoke with no rights of inheritance for anybody for the thousands of pounds I have invested over the last 20 years or so. So we are unacceptably vulnerable to Amazon in any dispute, and we are completely unable to will our investments to others in the way other purchases ?can be included in an Estate. This unacceptable situation is empowered by Audibles near monopoly position in the Audio Book market, with only small inroads? made by more ethical companies like Libro.Fm. ? David Griffith ? ? Interesting to have confirmation that Open Audible is unofficial.? I can see why people use and like it, but I think I'd rather go the official route, but yet to see how well it works, and I have also to explore what Audible offers and would be interested to know of folks? experience with Audible and avoiding having books de-activated as I believe some have experienced. ? On a different subject, and one that could have a thread of its own, I notice the VR3 has imported podcast feeds from the podcasts I was subscribed to on my old Victor Trek.? Anyone else seen this happen? ? Ray. ? On 02/05/2024 10:00 pm, David Griffith via groups.io wrote: Yes – I use it all the time. David Griffith ? ? Hi Ray It connects to the audible folder or library so it must be official, I find it much easier, open the open audible program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books, converts them and puts them in a folder under c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it, ?17 or something like that. ? ? ? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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I agree David, and like all successful monopolies, or near
monopolies, there's no place else to go.? How I wish this sort of
licencing restrictive practice could be internatinally outlawed,
but that is like doing unpleasant things into the wind!
There has been some mention of on a few other lists too about the
book Pirate of the Airwaves by Roger Day with its ability to be
read on smart phones and the rest being disabled.? In my view that
should not be an option for authors or publishers.
Ray.
On 03/05/2024 03:06 pm, David Griffith
via groups.io wrote:
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The main
reason I use Open Audible? ?is for Access reasons. Unless I
can amplify these books, they are literally unlistenable for
me.
However,
the whole Audible model irks me for other reasons. Over more
than a decade I have quote “bought” nearly 600 books from
Audible, yet I currently own none of them. At any time,
Amazon could decide they no longer want me as a customer and
I would lose rights to all these purchases, with no rights
in their terms and conditions to access them. Similarly, if
I die, not inconceivable at my age, ???????all my investment
in Amazon digital media, both Kindle and Audible disappear,
according to their terms, ?into smoke with no rights of
inheritance for anybody for the thousands of pounds I have
invested over the last 20 years or so.
So we
are unacceptably vulnerable to Amazon in any dispute, and we
are completely unable to will our investments to others in
the way other purchases ?can be included in an Estate.
This
unacceptable situation is empowered by Audibles near
monopoly position in the Audio Book market, with only small
inroads? made by more ethical companies like Libro.Fm.
?
David
Griffith
?
?
Interesting to have confirmation that Open Audible is
unofficial.? I can see why people use and like it, but I think
I'd rather go the official route, but yet to see how well it
works, and I have also to explore what Audible offers and
would be interested to know of folks? experience with Audible
and avoiding having books de-activated as I believe some have
experienced.
?
On a different subject, and one that could have a thread of
its own, I notice the VR3 has imported podcast feeds from the
podcasts I was subscribed to on my old Victor Trek.? Anyone
else seen this happen?
?
Ray.
?
On 02/05/2024 10:00 pm, David Griffith
via groups.io wrote:
Yes –
I use it all the time.
David
Griffith
?
?
Hi Ray
It
connects to the audible folder or library so it must be
official, I find it much easier, open the open audible
program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on
mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books,
converts them and puts them in a folder under
c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a
lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc,
they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With
open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you
need it, ?17 or something like that.
?
?
?
So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about
downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should
not be asking?
Ray.
?
On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
Hi
Ray
Open
audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I
prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing
around connecting gadgets to audible.
?
The
suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight
away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again.
?
?
?
Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using
Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3
at last does support Audible officially.
?
I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open
Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as
straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using
Open Audible already?
?
Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.?
I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn
off automatically after a given time which could be
adjusted in settings.
?
My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is
that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes
to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the
point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be
their development resources are spread too thin, what with
its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and
all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing
releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading
solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So
I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage
its in now has been curtailed by development efforts
elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing
a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy
podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A
worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant
reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it
all smart phone.
?
Ray.
?
On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien
Collins via groups.io wrote:
Hi
David
?
I
am currently downloading my audible library with open
audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts
the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to
the all on my vr stream. ?
?
?
?
Dear
Ray
I
will not be personally using the Audible feature but
as I understand it.
- Download
Audible Sync to your computer from
Install
Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials.
Some users report having to close and restart the app
to successfully complete this process.
- Connect
your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is
turned on. Then find the option to activate device
from within the Audible Sync app. With this new
process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card
which is activated.
- Then
as I understand it you can download and transfer
Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing.
If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible
Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline
mode.
Hope
that helps.
?
David
Griffith
?
?
I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time
and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the
download progress though I was told of installation
progress.
?
I see from the announcement that the latest version of
AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book
support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source
telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR
Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some
Audible titles.
?
What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the
VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.?
Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route
which I think is the only option open to us for
listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do
this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB
download service would be nice to have if anyone would
provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to
order rather than to download.
?
How depressing it is that so many countries seem to
support the download of audio books from their national
libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel
I am living in a NAF country.
?
Ray.
?
?
On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David
Goldfield via groups.io wrote:
Please
send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to
my inbox.
?
?
Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and
AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to
point towards the new links on the support page. If
you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update
AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online
bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that
didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some
voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and
properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading
positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast
episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to
the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive
when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under
certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long
time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a
future AudibleSync build)
?
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology
Specialist
Marketing Manager,
Blazie Technologies
(772) 214-1616
?
?
?
If you need help using your
assistive technology learn about my training services
by visiting
?
?
?
?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
The main reason I use Open Audible? ?is for Access reasons. Unless I can amplify these books, they are literally unlistenable for me. However, the whole Audible model irks me for other reasons. Over more than a decade I have quote “bought” nearly 600 books from Audible, yet I currently own none of them. At any time, Amazon could decide they no longer want me as a customer and I would lose rights to all these purchases, with no rights in their terms and conditions to access them. Similarly, if I die, not inconceivable at my age, ???????all my investment in Amazon digital media, both Kindle and Audible disappear, according to their terms, ?into smoke with no rights of inheritance for anybody for the thousands of pounds I have invested over the last 20 years or so. So we are unacceptably vulnerable to Amazon in any dispute, and we are completely unable to will our investments to others in the way other purchases ?can be included in an Estate. This unacceptable situation is empowered by Audibles near monopoly position in the Audio Book market, with only small inroads? made by more ethical companies like Libro.Fm. ? David Griffith ?
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Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? Interesting to have confirmation that Open Audible is unofficial.? I can see why people use and like it, but I think I'd rather go the official route, but yet to see how well it works, and I have also to explore what Audible offers and would be interested to know of folks? experience with Audible and avoiding having books de-activated as I believe some have experienced. ? On a different subject, and one that could have a thread of its own, I notice the VR3 has imported podcast feeds from the podcasts I was subscribed to on my old Victor Trek.? Anyone else seen this happen? ? Ray. ? On 02/05/2024 10:00 pm, David Griffith via groups.io wrote: Yes – I use it all the time. David Griffith ? ? Hi Ray It connects to the audible folder or library so it must be official, I find it much easier, open the open audible program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books, converts them and puts them in a folder under c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it, ?17 or something like that. ? ? ? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Interesting to have confirmation that Open Audible is
unofficial.? I can see why people use and like it, but I think I'd
rather go the official route, but yet to see how well it works,
and I have also to explore what Audible offers and would be
interested to know of folks? experience with Audible and avoiding
having books de-activated as I believe some have experienced.
On a different subject, and one that could have a thread of its
own, I notice the VR3 has imported podcast feeds from the podcasts
I was subscribed to on my old Victor Trek.? Anyone else seen this
happen?
Ray.
On 02/05/2024 10:00 pm, David Griffith
via groups.io wrote:
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Yes – I
use it all the time.
David
Griffith
?
?
Hi Ray
It
connects to the audible folder or library so it must be
official, I find it much easier, open the open audible
program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3
and the program does the rest, it downloads the books,
converts them and puts them in a folder under
c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a
lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they
seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open
audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it,
?17 or something like that.
?
?
?
So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about
downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should
not be asking?
Ray.
?
On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
Hi Ray
Open
audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I
prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around
connecting gadgets to audible.
?
The
suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight
away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again.
?
?
?
Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using
Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at
last does support Audible officially.
?
I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.?
Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward
as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible
already?
?
Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd
have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off
automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in
settings.
?
My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that
HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to
devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point
it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their
development resources are spread too thin, what with its
involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all
the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases
of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions
which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect
the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has
been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the
result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected
audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio
access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd
say not withstanding the contant reminders from some
quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone.
?
Ray.
?
On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
Hi
David
?
I am
currently downloading my audible library with open
audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts
the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the
all on my vr stream. ?
?
?
?
Dear
Ray
I
will not be personally using the Audible feature but as
I understand it.
- Download
Audible Sync to your computer from
Install
Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials.
Some users report having to close and restart the app to
successfully complete this process.
- Connect
your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is
turned on. Then find the option to activate device
from within the Audible Sync app. With this new
process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card
which is activated.
- Then
as I understand it you can download and transfer
Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If
it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf
?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope
that helps.
?
David
Griffith
?
?
I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time
and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the
download progress though I was told of installation
progress.
?
I see from the announcement that the latest version of
AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book
support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source
telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream
3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible
titles.
?
What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the
VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not
much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I
think is the only option open to us for listening on
phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC
and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service
would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The
link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than
to download.
?
How depressing it is that so many countries seem to
support the download of audio books from their national
libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I
am living in a NAF country.
?
Ray.
?
?
On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David
Goldfield via groups.io wrote:
Please
send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my
inbox.
?
?
Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and
AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point
towards the new links on the support page. If you need
to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update
AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online
bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that
didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some
voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and
properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions
to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast
episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the
right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when
listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under
certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long
time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future
AudibleSync build)
?
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology
Specialist
Marketing Manager,
Blazie Technologies
(772) 214-1616
?
?
?
If you need help using your assistive
technology learn about my training services by visiting
?
?
?
?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Yes – I use it all the time. David Griffith ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adrien Collins
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 7:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? Hi Ray It connects to the audible folder or library so it must be official, I find it much easier, open the open audible program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books, converts them and puts them in a folder under c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it, ?17 or something like that. ? ? ? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Yes, it is unofficial, and Amazon could block it at any time. ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Hi Ray It connects to the audible folder or library so it must be official, I find it much easier, open the open audible program, it’ll ask you to log-in and make sure it is on mp3 and the program does the rest, it downloads the books, converts them and puts them in a folder under c:\user\account name and open audible\books. To me it is a lot less hassle than it seems to be with audible sinc, they seem to be have millions of problems with it. With open audible it is demo but only $19 for as long as you need it, ?17 or something like that. ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ? ? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
So, is Open Audible an "unofficial" way to go about downloading
books, or am I perhaps asking something I should not be asking?
Ray.
On 01/05/2024 07:24 pm, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
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Hi Ray
Open
audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I
prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around
connecting gadgets to audible.
?
The
suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away
and you don’t need to scan the sd card again.
?
?
?
Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using
Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at
last does support Audible officially.
?
I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.?
Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as
indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already?
?
Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd
have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off
automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in
settings.
?
My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that
HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to
devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point
it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their
development resources are spread too thin, what with its
involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the
clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of
magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which
allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time
needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been
curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is
the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader
for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been
somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not
withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the
virtues of the do it all smart phone.
?
Ray.
?
On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
Hi
David
?
I am
currently downloading my audible library with open
audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the
books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all
on my vr stream. ?
?
?
?
Dear
Ray
I will
not be personally using the Audible feature but as I
understand it.
- Download
Audible Sync to your computer from
Install
Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials.
Some users report having to close and restart the app to
successfully complete this process.
- Connect
your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is
turned on. Then find the option to activate device from
within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is
the Stream itself rather than SD card which is
activated.
- Then
as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible
Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is
like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will
appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope
that helps.
?
David
Griffith
?
?
I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and
I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download
progress though I was told of installation progress.
?
I see from the announcement that the latest version of
AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book
support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling
me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I
might now be interested in buying some Audible titles.
?
What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3
- or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much
inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think
is the only option open to us for listening on phones and
the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder
of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to
have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to
refer to books to order rather than to download.
?
How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support
the download of audio books from their national libraries -
but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in
a NAF country.
?
Ray.
?
?
On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield
via groups.io wrote:
Please
send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my
inbox.
?
?
Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE
over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point
towards the new links on the support page. If you need to
download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update
AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online
bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't
work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices
may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly
delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions
to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the
right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when
listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under
certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time
to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future
AudibleSync build)
?
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology
Specialist
Marketing Manager,
Blazie Technologies
(772) 214-1616
?
?
?
If you need help using your assistive
technology learn about my training services by visiting
?
?
?
?
?
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Re: Webinar for 1.3 release
Hi Claire ? I don’t remember that function, but to actually jump several books at once would be good. ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of claire amoroso via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 7:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] Webinar for 1.3 release? With the Stream 2, you could press and hold key 4 and 6 in a list of files to jump 10 files at a time . Don't know if this still works on Stream 3. Great to hear of all the new updates of the Stream 3.
Hi Matthew ? I like the update, it has made a big difference and it definitely is much quicker at reading the sd card. ? What would be useful is a function where you can jump 10 or more books at a time if you have a lot of books on an sd card, I know you can go to book and give a number but another option would be useful. I like the vr stream 3, it can only but get better. Keep up the good work. ? When you have the stream in suspend mode, the shut down now function seems to crash a bit, not sure, I have only tried it a couple of times. The stream seems to freeze up. How do you cancel the shut down now if you want to cancel it? ? Regards Adrien ? I am raising funds to buy my own wheelchair, I have to do this because of changes to NHS services local to me. If you can help me by donating or spreading the word, please feel free. Many thanks. ?
? ? Hello!
We will be hosting a webinar to talk about 1.3 on the Victor Reader Stream.
Date and time: May 14th at 4pm London time
Registration link: https://humanware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9KH888sASZ2wtEbCy3a71Q
Come have a chat!?
Mathieu
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Hi Ray Open audible isn’t talked about as much as audible sink but I prefer it, just my choice, it is easier, no messing around connecting gadgets to audible. ? The suspend feature is great, the stream wakes up straight away and you don’t need to scan the sd card again. ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 8:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does support Audible officially. ? I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already? ? Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically after a given time which could be adjusted in settings. ? My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do it all smart phone. ? Ray. ? On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins via groups.io wrote: Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ? ? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Thanks David for the explanation of installing and using Audible
which I might now go and investigate now the VR3 at last does
support Audible officially.
I am somewhat bemuzed by Adrian's mention of Open Audible.? Is
there a catch to using this?? If its as straightforward as
indicated then perhaps many are using Open Audible already?
Hard to see the advantage of standby or suspend mode.? I'd have
thought all that's needed is for the VR3 to turn off automatically
after a given time which could be adjusted in settings.
My final thought which in fact I've had for a while is that
HumanWare seem somewaht overstretched when it comes to devoting
time and resources to bringing the VR3 to the point it should have
been at from the start.? Could it be their development resources
are spread too thin, what with its involvement with the monach
Braille tablet display and all the clever things it can do?? There
is also ongoing releases of magnification and easy conveneient
reading solutions which allow quick reading of print documents? So
I suspect the time needed to bring the VR3 to the stage its in now
has been curtailed by development efforts elsewhere and the result
is the reputation of HW providing a much respected audio reader
for book lovers and easy podcast and radio access has been
somewhat dented.?? A worthwhile market I'd say not withstanding
the contant reminders from some quarters of the virtues of the do
it all smart phone.
Ray.
On 01/05/2024 06:00 am, Adrien Collins
via groups.io wrote:
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
Hi David
?
I am
currently downloading my audible library with open audible,
it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to
mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr
stream. ?
?
?
?
Dear Ray
I will
not be personally using the Audible feature but as I
understand it.
- Download
Audible Sync to your computer from
Install
Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some
users report having to close and restart the app to
successfully complete this process.
- Connect
your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned
on. Then find the option to activate device from within
the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the
Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then
as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible
Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like
the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on
the Stream in offline mode.
Hope
that helps.
?
David
Griffith
?
?
I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I
was struck by the lack of announcements of the download
progress though I was told of installation progress.
?
I see from the announcement that the latest version of
AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book
support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me
how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now
be interested in buying some Audible titles.
?
What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 -
or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much
inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is
the only option open to us for listening on phones and the
like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of
the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if
anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to
books to order rather than to download.
?
How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support
the download of audio books from their national libraries -
but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a
NAF country.
?
Ray.
?
?
On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield
via groups.io wrote:
Please
send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my
inbox.
?
?
Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE
over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point
towards the new links on the support page. If you need to
download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update
AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't
work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices
may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly
delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to
be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the
right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when
listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under
certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time
to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future
AudibleSync build)
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Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
Marketing Manager,
Blazie Technologies
(772) 214-1616
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Re: Webinar for 1.3 release
Hi Adrien,
With the Stream 2, you could press and hold key 4 and 6 in a list of files to jump 10 files at a time . Don't know if this still works on Stream 3.
Great to hear of all the new updates of the Stream 3.
Claire
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I like the update, it has made a big difference and it definitely is much quicker at reading the sd card.
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What would be useful is a function where you can jump 10 or more books at a time if you have a lot of books on an sd card, I know you can go to book and give a number but another option would be useful. I like the vr stream 3,
it can only but get better. Keep up the good work.
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When you have the stream in suspend mode, the shut down now function seems to crash a bit, not sure, I have only tried it a couple of times. The stream seems to freeze up. How do you cancel the shut down now if you want to cancel
it?
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Regards
Adrien
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I am raising funds to buy my own wheelchair, I have to do this because of changes to NHS services local to me. If you can help me by donating or spreading the word, please feel free. Many thanks.
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Hello!
We will be hosting a webinar to talk about 1.3 on the Victor Reader Stream.
Date and time: May 14th at 4pm London time
Registration link: https://humanware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9KH888sASZ2wtEbCy3a71Q
Come have a chat!?
Mathieu
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Hi David ? I am currently downloading my audible library with open audible, it is much easier, only $19, and it converts the books to mp3, a lot less hassle. I can listen to the all on my vr stream. ? ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Griffith via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 1:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ? ? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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Re: Webinar for 1.3 release
Hi Matthew ? I like the update, it has made a big difference and it definitely is much quicker at reading the sd card. ? What would be useful is a function where you can jump 10 or more books at a time if you have a lot of books on an sd card, I know you can go to book and give a number but another option would be useful. I like the vr stream 3, it can only but get better. Keep up the good work. ? When you have the stream in suspend mode, the shut down now function seems to crash a bit, not sure, I have only tried it a couple of times. The stream seems to freeze up. How do you cancel the shut down now if you want to cancel it? ? Regards
Adrien ? I am raising funds to buy my own wheelchair, I have to do this because of changes to NHS services local to me. If you can help me by donating or spreading the word, please feel free. Many thanks. ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathieu via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 5:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [dap-uk] Webinar for 1.3 release? Hello!
We will be hosting a webinar to talk about 1.3 on the Victor Reader Stream.
Date and time: May 14th at 4pm London time
Registration link: https://humanware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9KH888sASZ2wtEbCy3a71Q
Come have a chat!?
Mathieu
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Hello!
We will be hosting a webinar to talk about 1.3 on the Victor Reader Stream.
Date and time: May 14th at 4pm London time
Registration link: https://humanware.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9KH888sASZ2wtEbCy3a71Q
Come have a chat!?
Mathieu
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Highway, you can access calibre Andy rnib library with synaptic. I've got both libraries on my phone. So don't need the dolphin easy reader. As it's more difficult to use. Best Mrs Villa
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----- Original Message ----- I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support. Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. Ray. On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote:
Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox.
*From:*[email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Mathieu via
groups.io
Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the
new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually
right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to
1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before
now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to
be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear
in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build)
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
Marketing Manager,
Blazie Technologies
(772) 214-1616
If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my
training services by visiting
WWW.ScreenReaderTraining.com <>
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
Dear Ray I will not be personally using the Audible feature but as I understand it. - Download Audible Sync to your computer from
Install Audible Sync and log in with your Audible credentials. Some users report having to close and restart the app to successfully complete this process. - Connect your Stream 3 to your computer and make sure it is turned on. Then find the option to activate device from within the Audible Sync app. With this new process it is the Stream itself rather than SD card which is activated.
- Then as I understand it you can download and transfer Audible Books to your connected Stream for playing. If it is like the VR 2 and additional Audible Bookshelf ?will appear on the Stream in offline mode.
Hope that helps. ? David Griffith ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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Re: [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!
To be honest, EasyReader on your phone is the best way to get RNIB books. You can literally search from the phone and download it. I’m personally done with specialist players. ? All the best
Steve
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dap-uk] [Tech-VI] For Users of the Victor Reader Stream 3: Version 1.3 is now available!? I installed the update yesterday which took a fair time and I was struck by the lack of announcements of the download progress though I was told of installation progress. ? I see from the announcement that the latest version of AudibleSync should be downloaded to enable Audible book support.? Wonder if anyone can point me to a source telling me how to enable and use Audible on the VR Stream 3?? I might now be interested in buying some Audible titles. ? What a pity we cannot access RNIB Talking Books on the VR3 - or any other specailist player for that matter.? Not much inclined to go the Dolphin Easy Reader route which I think is the only option open to us for listening on phones and the like.? Of course I could do this on my PC and a reminder of the URL for the RNIB download service would be nice to have if anyone would provide it.? The link I have seems to refer to books to order rather than to download. ? How depressing it is that so many countries seem to support the download of audio books from their national libraries - but not the UK.? Just one more reason I feel I am living in a NAF country. ? Ray. ? ? On 29/04/2024 06:14 pm, David Goldfield via groups.io wrote: Please send questions and feedback to Humanware and not to my inbox. ? ? Hello everyone!
The 1.3 update for the Stream 3 is now LIVE and AVAILABLE over-the-air.
Our website will be updated at some point today to point towards the new links on the support page. If you need to download it manually right now:
English Australia:
English North America:
English UK:
Here are the release notes for this new version.
FEATURES
Added Audible support on the offline bookshelf (update AudibleSync to 1.8.16 or higher)
Added EOLE library support (France) on the online bookshelf
Implemented the Suspend Mode (off by default)
Books are now sorted in alphabetical order
SD card loading speed vastly improved
Variable speed is now available in podcasts on TuneIn
Time navigation is now enabled in podcasts on TuneIn
Updated FFMPEG engine (several radio stations that didn't work before now do)
Updated Acapela engine and added new voices* : some voices may have to be redownloaded
Enhanced Where Am I on Internet Radio
Search results are now numbered
DOD books will now clean up after themselves and properly delete
*NEW VOICES:
Arabic-Jalal
BelgianDutch-Jeroen
Brazilian-Gabriela
Brazilian-Sergio
British-Lucy
British-Nizareng
CanadianFrench-Anthony
Danish-Rikke
Dutch-Femke
Dutch-Max
French-Bruno
French-Claire
French-Constance
French-Julie
German-Sarah
Greek-Dimitris
Hindi-Vidhi
Italian-Chiara
Italian-Vittorio
Japanese-Sakura
Korean-Minji
Norwegian-Ida
Norwegian-Kari
Polish-Gosia
Polish-Piotr
Portuguese-Isabel
Russian-Lena
Swedish-Emma
Turkish-Zeynep
USEnglish-Darius
USEnglish-Karen
USEnglish-Laura
USEnglish-Micah
USEnglish-Rod
USEnglish-Saul
USEnglish-Tamira
USEnglish-Taylor
USEnglish-Tracy
BUGFIXES
Resolved some crashes that caused book reading positions to be lost
SD Card labels will now properly play on boot
Podcast information now read when pressing 0
Disabled the settings menu when in diagnostic menu
Fixed premature "End of book" messages in podcast episodes
Fixed a memory leak causing some slowdowns and crashes
Fixed an issue with GOTO in Notes that didn't go to the right note
Fixed an issue that made the keypad non-responsive when listening to radio
Fixed an issue where the TTS could stop working under certain conditions
KNOWN ISSUE
If many books are present, the Stream may take a long time to appear in AudibleSync (will be fixed in a future AudibleSync build) ? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist Marketing Manager, Blazie Technologies (772) 214-1616 ? ? ? If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training services by visiting ? ? ?
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