Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (02/06/91)
Index Number: 13527
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At this same technology show I saw the Oscar and I have to admit it was
worth waiting for. Apparently many people here were standing in line
allthe way to the front door to look at the Oscar and I didn't see one
who was disappointed. It read everything I fed it from Dot Matrix that
the Kurzweil couldn't get through to bank statements, dull copies ETC.
It did make some mistakes but much fewer than the Kurzweil.. At
$3,895.00 it was excellent. It appeared to be much more versital than
the Kurzweil at least. This in no way to say it was perfect, it wasn't
but it did read everything that people put on it at least to the point
that you knew what the document was. I'm sure that more improvements
will be made but the Oscar stands out to me as a good product at a good
price. Grant
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Internet: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.orgWalter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (02/06/91)
Index Number: 13548
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
GD> At this same technology show I saw the Oscar and I have to admit it was
GD> worth waiting for. Apparently many people here were standing in line
GD> allthe way to the front door to look at the Oscar and I didn't see one who
GD> was disappointed. It read everything I fed it from Dot Matrix that the
GD> Kurzweil couldn't get through to bank statements, dull copies ETC.
Grant, did they have a sighted person scanning the material, or a
blind person. At the ACB convention, donna took the rules to the
uno game down to have it scanned by the arkenstone, and it was a
mess, and she went down to the oscar booth, and had them scan it,
and it was much better. Now, the person who did this for her, told
her that the reason they did a better job, was that it took some
sight to get it scanned properly because of the material. The
person who scanned it for her at arkenstone was blind, and that was
why it was so much better. Now, if it takes a sighted person to
get some material scanned good, that won't do for a blind person.
There is no doubt from what I have seen that the arkenstone system
will do better than the kpr.
The oscar is priced higher than the arkenstone.
Walter
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Internet: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.orgGary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro) (02/06/91)
Index Number: 13574
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Grant,
If the Oscar stands out to you, than the Arkenstone should be beating
down the doors trying to get into your hands. This is one of the things I
realy dislike about TSI. The Oscar is just overpriced, useless software,
on top of an Arkenstone.
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Internet: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.orgGrant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (02/06/91)
Index Number: 13578
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
The TSI representative sort of stood back and let us have at it.
The only sighted assistence we had was to read the screen. All
of the material however was handeled by the blind participants.
Grant
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Internet: Grant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgGrant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (03/14/91)
Index Number: 13910
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
The way we did it was to have the output of the Oscar and the KPR
reviewed on a screen by a sighted person comparing the actual documents
to waht was writtenon the screen. The kpr made numerous mistakes
especiallywithnumbers. There were documents that the KPR wouldnot
recognize and the scanner would get stuck on that the Oscar got through
with some slowness but it did get through it. One of the things I like
best about the Oscar and I'm sure the Arkanstone software provides for
some of these same options is that documents can be sent directly to an
output device or saved to a file. With the KPR there is a downloading
procedure that has to be used and that process seems to add a lot of
strange characters to the downloaded file. I think these strange
characters are with commands. If you braille something from the KPR
it's okay but listening to it through the computer speech systemyou
hear a lot of ^^ and so fourth. Grant
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