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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Arkanstone Verses PC KPR Demonstration
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Date: 15 May 91 17:01:51 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JM> I've always been of the
 JM> impression that the arkanstone will not speak as it scans.  You
 JM> actually have to wait until it's read at least a full page
 JM> before you get to hear anything.  Is that correct? If so, I
 JM> consider that a major disadvantage over the PCKPR.

The new Arkenstone software has a setting called Quick Speech.  It allows the
speaking to start much faster.  Some users like it, and some don't.  It can be
very choppy and it will only read the first column of a multi-column page.  The
decolumnization takes palce later in the process.  All the data is there, in the
lastpare or allpages file and you can go back and read it.
The PCKPR is also choppy in its reading.
Whether or not the quick reading is important to you is of course a personal
decision.  For me, the Arkenstone's ability to determine page orientation and
still read if it is upside down or side ways is more important then quick
speech.

... David Andrews

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