Humanware Victor Reader Stream Quick Start Manual

Quick Start Guide

Victor Reader Stream

Overview

A digital talking book player with removable flash memory card and advanced
navigation.

To Use

How it is org an ize d: Ph ys ic a l F eat ur es

Front Face

Broken up in three sections. The upper includes a built in speaker to the left and a built
in microphone on the right. The middle section is a number pad with the number 5 with
a raised dot. Above the number 1 on the left is the GoTo page button and above the
number 3 is the Bookmark button. The bottom section consists of the rewind,
play/stop, and fast forward key. Abo ve the play/stop key is an oval shaped sleep key.

Numeric Ke y pad Li st Functions

• 1: Bookshelf if pressed, User Guide if pressed and held

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• 2: Navigation element

• 3: Delete

• 4: Back

• 5: Where am I?

• 6: Forward

• 7: Menu, Text-to-Speech Toggle if pressed and held (if more than one TTS)

• 8: Navigation Element

• 9: Text-to-Speech / Recorded audio modes toggle

• Star (*) key: Cancel if pressed, Key pad Lock if pressed and held

• 0: Info if pressed (which file is open, how much time has elapsed, and the

battery status)

Press and hold to turn on Key Describer Mode

• Pound (#) key: Confirm

Left Side

Power/Toggle button turns power on and off. When turned on, the power button

can be pressed again to access a menu to control volume, speed, tone, and pitch.
There are arrows below this button to increase or decrease these settings.

To turn stream off press and hold power button. A beeping sound will be made before
devise shuts off.

Right Side

Earphone and microphone jack and half way down a raised circular Record button.

Top

Left corner is USB connector, midd le SD m emory card slot, right side power input jack.

Back Side

Where battery is held. A fully charged battery offers 15 hours of playtime.
To open battery compartment, press on finger pads and slide door down and off.

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Bookshelf Structure

Information is formatted into a udio files and transferred onto the SD card via com puter.
The Files are saved on the SD card in folder structures called Bookshelves.

The following bookshelves exist: Talking Books ($VRDTB folder), Other Books
($VROtherBooks folder), Audio Books ($VRAudible folder), Music ($VRMusic folder),
Podcasts ($VRPodcasts), Text ($VRText folder), and Notes ($VRNotes folder).

To navigate through bookshelves Press Bookshelf key, 1, until you hear the desired
bookshelf. Navigate within that bookshelf by using the 4 and 6 Keys then press play
when you want to listen to selected m aterial.

Some Common Settings

Navigational Commands

Navigate using number 2 and 8 to select levels (level one is chapter, level two is
section), then use numbers 4 and 6 t o go back and forward within the level.

Use the rewind/fastforward and p lay/ stop button bellow the number pad when in a file.

At any time press 5 to hear where you are, how much time has elapsed, and how much
time is left.

Customizations

Press Menu (7) key to access these menus. Every time 7 is pressed the stream will
move to the next menu. Items within each menu can be accessed using the 2 and 8
key. The item value is then adjusted using the 4 and 6 button. Press # key to confirm
or * to cancel.

Spell Mode

This mode is found between the word a nd character navigational level accessed using
the 2 and 8 buttons. Then use 4 and 6 to move word by word. The stream will
announce the word, then spell it.

Go To options

Press once, go to page. Press twice, go to heading. Go to book and go to time are other
options depending on what kind of file you are in.

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Example: Press GoTo button until goto time is selected. Press in time increment in
minutes. Then press # key to confirm. Press Play button.

Audio Not es

Audio Notes can be recorded at any time and are assigned a numeric file name.
There are two wa y s to record. The first is b y pressing the Record button on the right

hand side and continue pressing throughout spoken message, then r elease to stop
recording.

For longer messages press the record button, then press the bookmark key during the
recording to insert a bookmark. To end the recording, press the Record button
again. Press the * key to cancel the recording. Althoug h the bookmark key was
pressed, this audio file is saved in audio notes.

Access audio notes by pressing 1 to hear y our bookshelves. Pr ess 1 until you hear
“Notes.” The number of notes you have recorded will be said. To navigate to a note
other than the la st one recorded, pr ess 5 (“Where am I?”) Nav igate between play
button, 4 or 6 to play the note you want. Press 3 to delete a note and # to confirm.

Advanced Features

Bookmarks

Using Bookmarks allows you to return to a certain place easily and quickly. Options in
Bookmarks are determined by the number of times you hit the bookmark key and will
be announced as you cycle through t he menu.

Go to Bookmark by pressing Bookmark key
key.

Insert Bookmark by pre s s i ng Bookmark key

enter the number you wish to assign t he bookmark from 1 to 99998. If you don’t select
a number, the stream will auto matically assign numbers starting with 1. Press # key
or Play/Stop key to insert the bookmark. Press play to resume hearing file.

Insert Audio Bookmark by pressing Bookmark key
and hold record button and release when done. An audio bookmark is stored within
bookmarks and is different then an audio note.

once

, press number of bookmark, and #

twice

or holding the key down. Then

twice

, assign a number, press

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Highlight Bookmark is used to define the beginning and end of an important passage
to study or reference later. Press Bookmark key
then # key to confirm. To end highlighted bookmark press Bookmark key until you
hear “end highlighted bookmark” then # key to confirm.

Bookmark List is used to hear how many bookmarks are saved. Press Bookmark
key

four times

and * to exit.
Remove Bookmark Press Bookmark key

To erase all bookmarks, press Bookmark key 5 times then 9 key 5 times.

. Use the 4 and 6 key to navigate bookm arks. Press # key to confirm

three times

five times,

, enter bookmark number

then select bo okmark to erase.

Sleep Mode

Program player to shut down automatical ly after 15 minutes by pressing Sleep Mode
key. 15 minutes will be added for eac h ad ditional time the sleep mode key is pressed.

Navigation and playback menu

Items of the first menu include loop disabled or enabled, time jump (1, 5, or 10
minutes), key beeps, an d sleep messages.

Skippable elements menu

Footnotes, page numbers, and production notes can be set to be played, skipped, or on
demand using this menu.

Language menu

Text to speech vo i ce and Braille translation table are accessed here.

Format SD card menu

If the card is not recognized or there is corrupt data, the SD card can be reformatted.

Web Resources

User Guide on Humanware

http://www.humanware.com/en-canada/support/vr_stream_documentation

HumanWare Canada Contact Information

1030, Rene-Levesque Blvd.
Drummondvill, Quebec.

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Canada J2C 5W4.
Telephone: [phone].
Toll-free (Canada & USA): 1 [phone].
Fax: [phone].
E-mail: [e-mail]
Website: www.humanware.com

Created by Kristel Schultz, Assistive Technology Resource Cent er, January 3, 2009.

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