Digital Talking Book Player

My mother is half blind. My objective is to be able to download talking books to a gadget for her to be able to easily listen to them. We dont have a computer and use internet cafés. The iPod wasnt suitable because you have to download software to a computer to use it. The Titan Digital Media Player allowed me to download mp3 files from any computer directly to it with no software downloads necessary, and ready for my Mum to listen to. The problem was my Mum hates using those tiny earplugs for speakers and the Titan has no facility to add different headphones and add speakers. So to summarize, what I am looking for is a gadget that I can download mp3 and other audio files directly to it from the internet from any computer, that has ample memory (the Titan I looked at had 10 gigas, the iPod 80 gigas) that is ready to playback and which allows you to add speakers and headphones to make listening easy and comfortable for my Mum. Any ideas? I hope this question produces an answer for us!!

If you already have Titan Digital Media Player then best is to use the ear phone plug and route the signal to speaker router, it should work.

Other way round is to get MP3 players like Creative Zens. That should provide you this facility.

2008-06-03 17:18:31 by helping children in need

This is the new digital talking book audio player for the blind and visualy impaired provided on load from the NLS Lation libray Service.

I am an American woman who is moving to Egypt to be with a muslim man and live my life with him. I have done some research on the net about the customs and such and have talked to my fiance about what to wear and so on. My question is, I have never been out of the U.S. before and don't know what to expect at the airport when I get to Cairo. How many suitcases am I allowed to bring (i'm only bringing my clothes, my laptop, cellphone, and digital camera, and my portable dvd player)? And I read you have to 'declare' stuff...what does this exactly mean? I will be shipping my books and dvd movies to where I will be living...is mailing them bookrate the cheapest? I will be leaving in 5 weeks so any help would be very much appreciated.

The airport may be crowded when you come just take it easy you'll find the way to stamp the passport. It's better if you already have the visa ready before you come. Otherwise you will take your turn and pay 15 U$D if the price is still the same.
You can carry many suitcases according to your ticket or airline. All items you mentioned is for personal use, but if you have many dvd's or cd's may be they will try to charge you.
No way to charge you for Camera,cell phone, laptop. You'll have this information written on the flight ticket.
You should have your fiance waiting for you outside. You can put your suitcases on a carriage after you pick it up. You can also find men in uniform who do this for you and you pay like 10 to 20 Egyptian pounds as a tip for that (2 to 4 U$D)
I put a link that's very useful for you to see. It makes you hear also the Arabic words you may use in Airport and other places. In reality it'll not be ideal like that, but at least it tells you something about it with photos and Arabic sounds.
You'll be fine in Egypt, just try to know about people and how is life here. It's completely different, so you'll take some time to understand and get use to many things. I hope you have a happy and wonderful life. If you need to ask any more questions you can send me any time.
Welcome among Egyptians

2007-02-23 09:31:58 by yasser's love

Price: $59.99

Listen & Read simultaneously
Direct search by Book, Chapter, Verse
King James & World English Bible Electronic text versions included

I've been trying to convert some files from WMA to MP3 and I need help figuring out what I'm doing wrong. The files are from talking books rather than music, but I assume that doesn't make any difference.

I'm using Windows XP and used Windows Media to do the conversion, but the files that are outputted are larger than the originals. One file was 481 kb in wma but 1.52 Mb in mp3. The Windows Audio Converter help file says "To convert audio files to MP3 files, you must purchase an MP3 encoder (third-party MP3 Creation Pack). An MP3 encoder is not included with Windows Digital Media Enhancements."

I found a similar Yahoo Question, where the answer had a reference to a website called something like wma-mp3.com and I downloaded Advanced WMA Workshop. This gave me exactly the same problem, with the mp3 files larger than the wma files.

My understanding is that by using mp3 files I should be able to save lots more tracks on the same CD, or load them onto an MP3 player. Is this correct or have I misunderstood this? (I haven't bought an MP3 player yet - that's my next step once I figure out how to work with the files!)

What am I doing wrong?
I also tried Switch Sound File Converter and had exactly the same problem.

OK, I'll try to explain music encoding in a short space:

1) All things being the same, I've heard that WMA files _CAN_ be a little smaller than MP3 under the same circumstances.

2) File size is directly dependent upon the "Bit-Rate" used during the conversion.

For example:
The sound quality of "music on hold" over a telephone vs. the same music on a CD. The phone is a lower quality than the CD, therefore you would expect the file-size of the CD music to be larger than the phone quality one. Are you with me here?

Spoken voice is also a lower-quality than either CD or Phone-music would be (work with me here, I'm trying to cover a lot of stuff here<smile>).

So, given that your original is from a "spoken" (aka talking book) the file-size would be expected to be kinda small. Now, we take a bit of a jump here.

By converting (aka transcoding) the spoken quality into a different format, without taking the "quality" into account, you got the default bit-rate. I'd expect it to be set around 128. Look around in the preferences and you are bound to find something that lets you adjust the bit-rate (i.e. how many bits per second will be used in the converted copy).

Generally speaking there is a "scale" that has cheap AM radio quality sound at one end (around 48-96), FM radio quality in the middle (around 96-128), Near CD quality (around 128-196) and High CD quality at 196+ at the other end.

Now, don't make a common mistake, don't transcode at a higher rate than the original was made at. The quality isn't there in the original, so the copy can't possibly have any better quality. As an example, imagine recording a phone converstaion onto a CD, what kind of quality would you expect to get? Phone quality of course, that's what you started with.

Make Sense?
So,that should explain why your mp3 is larger than your wma.

2008-10-20 18:11:33 by csdax

Price: $549.95

Media Player with MP3 support pre-loaded with Rick Steve's Audio Tours. Metric conversions and size equivalents. Calendar and Tasks, World Time and Daily Alarm.
Sophisticated Machine Translation system with unlimited pronunciation. Advanced MorphofinderTM word recognition and Vector Ultima spell-checker. Custom "Add new word" functionality for personalized vocabulary databases.
Slang lock: function allowing you to eliminate slang from your dictionaries. Interchangeable MMC/SD cards allow you to add new linguistic content. Bilingual interface and Voice recorder.

I am trying to hook-up a home theatre using older components and a new Harman Kardon AVR. Please Help. The components I have are as follows: CD, DVD player, VCR, digital cable box, JVC older tv, The issue I'm having is with the cable. How is this hooked up with the cable box, the tv and the vcr. This AVR requires on-screen set-up to get the speakers all balanced. I just can't get the on-line coming up and also have to hook the DVD directly to the tv to get a picture there. I don't know what I have done but I've been thoroughly confused with the book of a manual that came with the AVR. Basically, I thought I just ran everything into the AVR and then connected the tv to monitor out on the AVR. This didn't work. So far I have talked to 3 customer service reps and nobody has been able to give me the right set-up. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Your limiting factor is the JVC TV. Try this:

HK (harmon kardin) to TV Composite (not component) video (yellow) cable from the HK composite video out to JVC. Don't worry about red/white audio cables to the TV.

CD: Digital audio (coaxial or optical) to CD in on HK
VCR Yellow/red/white out to VCR in on HK
VCR Yellow/red/white in to VCR out on HK (for recording)
DVD Yellow and Digital audio (coaxial or optical) to DVD in on HK

These are all valid video connectors:
HDMI: large custom cable with special connector
DVI: large custom cable with large rectangular connector
Component: red/green/blue set of three cables
Svideo: special din plug with 4 conductors
Composite: Always a single yellow cable

Your JVC is likely only capable of Composite. Try the connections I've recommended and you should see a picture.

2008-01-05 15:15:53 by Electriclimb

these are the specifactions for the phone i am gonna buy. is it good?


Brand / Model: i68+
Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-band) Working on US, UK, Europe and Australia
Phone Unlocked: Yes
Dual SIM Card Slot: Yes
GPS No
Wi-Fi No
Battery Pack: Rechargeable Li-ion battery 3.7V 1200mAh
Talk time: Up To 210~300 Minutes
Standby time: Up To 240~280 Hours
Dimensions: 115mm(H) x 60.5mm(W) x 11.5mm(D)
weight: 111g
Color: Black
Screen: 3.2 inch WQVGA TFT touch screen, 16M color, 240 x 320 pixels
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese
Ring tone: 72 Polyphonic Ring tones ; Ring tone format: MP3, MP4, MIDI, WAV, AMR
Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixel, Support 1600x1200 photograph,
Phone Book Directories: Up to 500 entries on phone
Music Player: Support MP3, WAV WMA AMR AAC AAC+
Video Player: Support 3GP, MP4 full screen play.
E-Book Reader: Support TXT
Picture Viewer: Yes, Support JPG, JPEG, GIF
Internet: Support GPRS, WAP 2.0
Massage: Support 200 SMS, MMS
Email: Support POP3, IMAP, SMTP
Expansion Card Slot: Support Micro SD / T-Flash up to 4GB
Bluetooth 2.0: Yes, Support Data Transfer and A2DP
QWERT Keyboard No
USB Data Transfer: Yes
USB charging: Yes
Java 2.0 supported
Built in Speaker: Yes, 2x High Quality Speakers
Other function: Alarm clock, Memo, World time, Calendar, Game, video recorder, Voice recorder, Calculator,
Stopwatch, Hand free, Hand written input, Speed Dial, Auto Turn On/Off, Web Camera, hand-shake music and wallpaper(change the music or wallerpaper by shaking)
Warranty: One Year

3.2" Large Screen
The i68+ is a Touch Screen PDA.has a 3.2" 16:9 super sized LCD touch screen,which is very revolutionary and sensitive
Sim card
Dual SIM Card Supported (Two Card Stand-by)
Size
Weight : 100g(excluding battery) Dimensions : 110 x 60 x 10.5mm(Approx)
Network
GSM Quad-band 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, work for most of SIM Card & Tele Company,SIM Card Unlocked.Simply place your sim card in and its activated.Support Service Area:US,UK,Europe,Australia......
SMS
MMS/GPR included: WAP/GPRS/MMS/SMS Enable MS/MMS/GPRS Cellular enhancement protocol : GSM, GPRS (provided from your country Telecom)
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 2.0 Support with A2DP Bluetooth Headset Supported (* tested with Bluetooth 1.2 headset. We do not guarantee the product compatible with yours.)
Memory
built in 2GB,Expandable to 4GB Max(miniT-flash)
Talk&Standby Time
Standby Time : 240~280 Hours (Depends on network condition)
Talk Time : 3 Hours (Depends on network condition)
Useful Tool
Calendar, To Do List, Alarm, World Clock, Calculator, Unit Converter, Currency Converter, Health , Pedometer
Camera
1.3 Mega Pixel Digital Camera (4X Digital Zoom)
Security Setup
SIM Lock, Phone Lock, Keypad Lock, Black List, Filter List
Ring Tone
64 Polyphonic, 3D mp3/mp4 Ringtones LOUD&CLEAR SPEAKER
Multimedia
MP3/MP4 player,Music and Video 3GP,MPEG-4, AVI, DV Shoot, Camera, PC Video chat ,WAP Browser 2.0,GPRS(provided from your country Telecom)
Language
English(by default),French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese

It's ok for me.
Depends on you.

2009-01-26 20:34:27 by JD