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Small in size, Big on features! The Victor Reader Stream is the only DAISY player that offers you so much in such a small package.
Download your favorite books and MP3s on the Stream and leave home with your library in the palm of your hand. This versatile, powerful DAISY-MP3 and NISO player lets you read and navigate through complex books, such as reference manuals and school books, as well as novels and magazines. You can also use its built-in text-to-speech to read books in text format such as Bookshare. And that's not all! There are many more functions, including an integrated microphone to record voice notes. No other DAISY player offers you so much in such a small package and at such an affordable price. Packed with DAISY functions: This little player packs a mighty punch, offering high performance and advanced navigation. Victor Reader Stream gives you access to a book with equivalent speed, flexibility and accuracy of reading a printed book. Full control is at your fingertips. Your books and music go everywhere with you: Since it is ultra-compact and sleek, you can take it everywhere. No need to bring CDs with you it stores everything in its SD memory card. Only the size of a deck of cards, it fits in the palm of your hand and can easily be carried in a pocket or clipped on your belt in its attractive case. Hours of uninterrupted reading: Since you will not want to stop using it, Victor Reader Stream comes with rechargeable batteries providing up to 15 hours of uninterrupted listening time. So long trips become the perfect time to catch up on reading. The newer Version 2 software of the Victor Reader Stream supports DAISY and NISO books as well as music. The software will add even more media and text formats. Victor Reader Stream version 2 will now play electronic Braille files with its built-in text-to-speech, including multiple formats of English Braille encoded files, Unified English Braille, and non-English Braille formats. Version 2.0 also adds playback of Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Rich Text Format (RTF) files. The bookshelf feature has been extended to enhance the access and playback of all media types with special new features for Audible books, Podcast files, and music. Main Features of the Victor Reader Stream State-of-the-art DAISY, MP3, and NISO player Removable SD card for storing books, e-text files, music, and voice recordings and audio bookmarks Ability to play NLS download books and NLS book cartridges (for eligible members) Portable and lightweight Built-in human sounding text-to-speech (Nuance Vocalizer) Voice recording capability via built-in microphone or external microphone Playback through stereo headphones or secondary small speaker USB port to transfer books and music from your PC User replaceable Rechargeable battery providing 15 hours playtime Built-in battery charger (four hours for full recharge) Includes switchable external power adapter for use in multiple countries Stylish look with high contrast keys and buttons Attractive carrying case with belt clip Advanced DAISY Book Features Four-arrow keys for navigation by chapter, section, page, and bookmarks GOTO features to jump to a specific page, heading, book or bookmark Browse bookmark list Allows navigation of multiple books, MP3 folders, and voice notes Text-to-speech allows access to electronic text Three types of bookmarking saved separately for multiple books Simple bookmark to mark a reading position Audio bookmark with recorded voice note Highlight bookmark to mark start and end of a passage Ability to play or not to play skippable elements Extensive usability features: Variable speed playback Accelerated fast forward/rewind with audible feedback Time Jump feature Auto Sleep shutoff with multiple time settings Key lock feature Book information key Where Am I key for information on reading position Built-in user guide and Key Describer Configuration menu for setting time jump interval, DAISY skippable elements, and MP3 shuffle or loop play modes Audio messages for battery capacity Announcement of MP3 folder and file names Audio tone control Recognized as a standard Windows USB drive: allows transfers from PC to Stream without file filtering software Please refer to the Victor Reader Stream Sales and Product FAQ if you have any further questions before placing your order. Also, the following information is provided by HumanWare to better help in your use of the Victor Reader Stream: 1) Stream Companion CD and user guide available on the HumanWare website. We are pleased to announce that the Stream Companion software is ready. It may be downloaded from the following link: Victor Reader Stream Companion Software The Stream Companion User Guide is also available in the documentation list on the Stream Page at the following link: Victor Reader Stream Companion User Guide This Companion software is optional software that runs on Windows XP and Vista. It provides two functionalities: 1. Book Transfer Pane: The Book Transfer pane allows you to specify where you store your DAISY or NISO Talking Books on your PC. The Stream Companion will display all the book titles found in this path and all subfolders in a simple list view. Simply arrow up and down this list and press the space bar to select the book or books you wish to transfer to the Stream. Select the Transfer button and all the book files for the selected titles will be transferred to individual folders within the $VRDTB folder of your Stream. You can use the Stream Companion to transfer directly to the Stream if it is connected or to the Stream SD card in your card reader. There is a drop-down to specify the drive letter where your Stream or SD card is located. The Book pane also lists the books currently in your Talking Books folder on the SD card and lets you delete any of these if you wish. The Stream Companion also has windows to tell you the storage space on the SD card before and after you transfer or delete the books. There is a HELP button to display the User Guide. 2. Audio Note Conversion: The second reason you may wish to install the Stream Companion is to convert your audio notes. The Companion has a Notes pane that let's you select one or more of your Audio Notes and convert the 3GP files on the Stream's SD card to standard wav files on a specified location on your PC. This is useful if you wish to archive or edit your recordings on the PC. To install the Stream Companion, follow these steps: - Download the zip file from the Stream page using the link above. A demonstration of the installation and use of the program can be found in Section 10 of the new Stream Audio Tutorial which is also available on the Stream Page. 2) Audio Tutorial for Stream Victor Reader Stream Audio Tutorial The tutorial provides multiple MP3 files that describe the Stream in detail and its many functionalities. Topics include: - Player overview You may even wish to copy the tutorial files to a folder in your $VROtherBooks folder of your SD card so you can listen to the tutorial on the Stream. To do this: - Download the zip file that contains the audio tutorial files. Additional Note on Transferring Files When Stream Is Connected to the Computer: Many of you are aware that the USB data transfer speed is quite slow when the Stream is connected to the PC with the USB cable. HumanWare has recently made changes that improve this. We expect the improvement will be significant - about 2 or 3 times faster than on the present software version 1.1.15. This improved transfer will be made available in the next software release expected early in 2008. 3) Bose Headphone Company The following information has been provided to HumanWare from the Bose headphone company. We've tested the Bose QC3 headphones with the VictorReader Stream player. Here is some information that may be helpful to VictorReader Stream users: The "hiss" heard while using the products together is caused by an interaction between the design of the player and new technology in the QC3. This doesn't occur with other Bose headphones, including the QC2. Owners can try the following: Connect the QC3 headphones to the VictorReader Stream player using the QC3's dual-plug airline adapter. To use the adapter, fold down the second plug and insert the fixed plug into the output jack of the player. Then plug the QC3 audio connecting cable into the narrow end of the adapter. The sound level will be reduced. To compensate, increase the volume on the player. If the options we've offered do not resolve the issue to satisfaction, owners can contact Bose in the United States at 800-999-2673; or contact us through the Bose website at www.bose.com.R F B & D is now selling a User Authorization Key (UAK) for the Victor Reader Stream at a cost of $20. The UAK must be purchased directly from R F B & D Member Services by calling 1-800-221-4792. Once your order is processed (usually within 24 hours), you will be shipped a CD with the UAK installation instructions and a UAK file will be make available for you to download and install from the Member Services website. It is not necessary to wait for the CD to arrive because the instructions for accessing the UAK download site and installing the UAK are also given below in this announcement. If you login to your account on the indicated UAK site and your key is not yet available it means your order has not yet been processed by R F B & D. R F B & D advises that their order processing typically requires about 24 hours. HumanWare Victor Reader Stream - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic UAK Installation Instructions Victor Reader Stream requires a UAK (User Authorization Key) from R F B & D to play their AudioPlus books. These books are password-protected and require special decryption to play on the Stream. The UAK is unique to the serial number of your device and cannot be transferred to or from any other Daisy Book player. To obtain the UAK you will need the following: - You must know your R F B & D Member ID; Steps To Install the UAK Using a Windows PC running 2000 or XP 1. Contact R F B & D Member Services at 1-800-221-4792 and purchase your UAK. Wait about 24 hours and then go to the R F B & D Digital Playback Software Registration Site at http://www.rfbd.org/UAK. 2. Enter your MEMBER ID # and click "LOGON" 3. Select HumanWare Stream from the Product List, enter your Stream Serial Number with or without the dashes and select "GENERATE UAK". R F B & D will validate your device and return the UAK to you. This UAK will be a zip file containing 10 files (3 SMIL, 3 MP3, 3 html, and a KXO) 4. Download and save the zip file to your computer. 5. Connect your Stream to your PC using the long USB cable provided. Be sure the Stream is powered off when you connect it. After connecting it, power it back on and you will hear the message, "player connected". Alternatively, if you have an SD card reader, you may put the SD card of your Stream into the card reader. 6. Wait for Windows to recognize your Stream's SD card. It will appear as a drive letter on your computer. 7. Open this drive letter using Windows Explorer or the My Computer program. 8. Extract (unzip) all the 10 files from the zip file on your computer into the root of this SD card drive. Be sure to save the files in the root not in any of the $VR folders. 9. Close the SD card in Windows by exiting Windows Explorer or My Computer. 10. Use the Safely Remove Hardware option in the Windows System Tray to tell Windows you want to disconnect the Stream or release the drive that contains your SD card. 11. Power off the Stream and disconnect it from the computer or, if you used a card reader, insert the SD card into the Stream. 12. Power on the Stream. It will then prompt you for your 4 digit R F B & D PIN number. Enter the number followed by the pound key. The Stream will announce that the user key has been processed. Your Stream will now be authorized to play R F B & D AudioPlus books. Once your Stream is authorized, you should then delete the 10 files from the SD card and keep the zip file on your computer as a backup. You only need to authorize the Stream once even if you use multiple SD cards. Playing AudioPlus CD's from R F B & D: To play AudioPlus CD books on your Stream, you will need to copy all the files on the R F B & D CD to your Stream SD card. To do this, create a subfolder for the book title in the $VRDTB folder of the SD card and copy all the files on the CD into that subfolder. Alternatively, you may use the Stream Companion software and select the drive letter of your CD as the source of the book files. Note that if the book is on 2 CD's, you need to create a second subfolder and copy the files of the second CD to it. The Stream will treat a multi-CD book as two separate books. Victor Reader Stream Multi-Lingual Text-to-Speech Software Victor Reader Stream software version 1.2 multi-lingual TTS (Text-to-Speech) releases are now available for download at: http://www.humanware.com/en-canada/support/victor_reader_stream.
These multi-lingual versions are available in: Danish, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Each multi-lingual version has its recorded prompts and messages in the local language. As well, each multi-lingual version has two Vocalizer TTS languages: the local language and the default English female Samantha. You can move from one TTS language to the other by pressing and holding key 7 on the Stream. Samples of each TTS Language are available to listen to following the documentation list for each language. If you have a Stream version 1.0 or 1.1 and you wish to upgrade to the newer version 1.2 with the multi-lingual TTS then follow these steps to upgrade: - Download the appropriate zip file for your language; Complete installation instructions and the list of newer features for version 1.2 are available in the What's New document in the English documentation list on the same support page. The version 1.2 User Guide is only available at this time in English. Multi-lingual User Guides will be made available with the next release of Victor Reader Stream.
If you want to hear a sample of any of the multi language TTS voices, there is a link to listen to each sample following the documentation for each language. User Testimonials for Victor Reader Stream: Just wanted to let you know that I purchased my Victor Reader Stream the day I received your e-mail, and had it the next day. I've thoroughly enjoyed it and never leave home without it. Thanks so much. Money well spent. Mary Finally, I just want to add my thanks for developing such a great product at such an awesome price! I have never been much of a book reader and had considered purchasing a product from the competition, namely the Bookport. After I read the initial reviews on the VictorReader Stream, I was hooked on the player and knew I had to have one. I finally purchased a player in late November and wonder why I waited so long! I should also add that a co-worker purchased a player site unseen after I told him all about the player. In fact, my wife liked the player so much, she bought one too! The design of the player, including size, is outstanding! The player has such great features and is a breeze to use. I love the fact that the VR Stream is so compact in size and weighs so little. I can honestly say that the VictorReader Stream has turned me into an avid reader! Like a good paperback, I just can't seem to put the VictorReader Stream down. Outstanding job Humanware!! Looking forward to your response. Dave Tech notes: |
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