[optacon-l] Re: Interesting List Observations and Document Layouts
- From: Natalie <nataliej@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:10:12 -0500
One thing that I do is take any recording device and while both hands
are busy with the Optacon I read into it. So much easier now than when
we had tapes. In that way we can give ourselves the cues we want about
formatting, font etc. and don't have to go through repeatedly reading
and listening to the same thing over and over again.
Natalie Johnson
On 2/27/2014 12:26 AM, Jyrki Voutilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Jyrki Voutilainen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Laurel Jean Walden wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with you regarding the Optacon and am so grateful for this list.
>> So am also I, but wanted just to bring another view of the silence.
> And I still have to say that the Optacon has decreased my dependency on my
> other IT equipment a bit, and the Optacon is also an IT device but on a
> very early stage. It doesn't have any internal memory for storing the read
> material, for instance, but to be honest, I haven't really missed such a
> facility in the Optacon even though it would sometimes be nice to be able
> to memorize something read for further purposes in a convenient way. Then
> you could still get an image of layouts, font types etc. and read the
> memorized contents later without rereading the document. When rereading
> the document you would already have its layout "in your head".
>
> The only problem I see in this is that every rechecking of something you
> have missed or missunderstood would also be memorized and recalled
> assuming that everything was "recorded" and stored in the memory.
>
> This could be compaired with audio recording where everything is recorded
> with every stumble, pause or whatever included. Of course you can stop and
> continue an audio recording, and you could do the same also with the
> Optacon, but would it be that easy? But still the idea of a "recording"
> Optacon is fascinating, or what do all of you think?
>
> When Optacon was still manufactured, memory was expensive but could
> probably have been inserted to the present Optacon models. The output of
> the memory content would also have caused some designing even though the
> Optacon's display was already there. A new Optacon could be connected to a
> computer or whatever IT device through USB or Bluetooth, and it could also
> have an internal speaker and support for all written languages. The memory
> content should also be available without any external devices with
> internal speech output, and the content should of course be able to read
> from the Optacon's display just like the original document.
>
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