DAISY in the Assistive Technology Devices

for the Visually Impaired

DAISY in the Assistive Technology Devices

for the Visually Impaired

June, 2009

HIMS Co., Ltd.

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Company profile

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IntroductionIntroduction Established in 1999 Main products : IT products for the visually impaired

Products for the blind

Products for the low vision

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DAISY in the Assistive Tech

Device for the blind

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BrailleSENSE PlusBrailleSENSE PlusHardware configuration

Braille display : 32 cells Wireless LAN(802.11b/g), Bluetooth installed Interfaces : LAN, Serial, USB, VGA, CF slot and SD slot Memory: 8GB for user data storage, 128MB of SDRAM Detachable battery Inputting Braille : Perkins and QWERTY type keyboards

Software configuration Real time text-to-Braille, Braille-to-text translator Text-to-speech engine installed Application software 　

File manager, Word processor, Address manager, Schedule manager, E-mail, Web browser, MSN messengerMedia player with voice recording, DAISY playerDatabase manager

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VoiceSENSE and SyncBrailleVoiceSENSE and SyncBrailleHardware feature of VoiceSENSE Wireless LAN(802.11b/g), Bluetooth installed Interfaces : USB, CF slot and SD slot Memory: 1GB for user data storage, 128MB of SDRAM

Software feature of VoiceSENSE Real time text-to-Braille, Braille-to-text translator Text-to-speech engine installed Application software 　

File manager, Word processor, Address manager, Schedule manager, E-mail, Web browser, MSN messengerMedia player with voice recording, DAISY playerDatabase manager

Specification of SyncBraille Interface : USB 2.0 Powered by USB Cursor routing keys Scroll up/down keys at both ends of Braille cells

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DAISY in SENSEDAISY in SENSEDAISY format supported by SENSE Daisy 2.0, 2.02 and NISO,

Audiable, Bookshare, NIMAS, NLS

RFB&D(under development),

Merit of BrailleSENSE and VoiceSENSE Multi-tasking

Running 7 programs simultaneously

Word processing during listening DAISY contents (2 tasks)

Word processing during listening DAISY contents with back music (3 tasks)

Useful feature for studying and working

Easy control

Ergonomic design for the blind

Key commends using Braille keyboards (Perkins style)

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DAISY Player / BookSenseDAISY Player / BookSense

Model: T50 Model: T50XT

BookSense has a Daisy Player with advanced feature and quality. It is excellent e-learning products for the blind and Dyslexia.

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DAISY Player / BookSenseDAISY Player / BookSenseMain Feature Support various type of Audio , text and Daisy format content Easy recording (one touch button) with MP3, WAV format Also supporting sample rate, bit rate and selecting mono/stereo

The easiest way to navigate finding folder and file.

Built-in 4GB flash memory, Bluetooth and stereo speaker

Media equalizer (Normal, Rock, Classic, Pop)

User can sort Artist / Album / genre while playing audio file

FM Radio and recording radio broadcasting

The fastest booting time

Date and Time button (it works even turn off)

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DAISY Player / BookSenseDAISY Player / BookSenseSpecification Software (supporting contents)

Daisy player: Daisy 2.0/2.02, ASI/NISO Z39.86 2002/2005, DAISY XML,

NLS, RFB&D, Bookshare, NIMAS 1.1, PDTB v1.1(RFB&D), v2.0(NLS). Audio player:

MP3, MP4, WAV, WAX, WMA, OGG, FLAC, AA, AAX, NLS(3GP), Audible, ASF audio files.

Text reader: TXT, DOC, RTF, HTML, XML, BRL(BRF)

Hardware Internal flash memory: 4GB Memory extension: SD card slot (up to 32 GB) Interface: Bluetooth, USB Audio recording: Internal condenser microphone, External MIC jack Audio output: Internal stereo speakers, Stereo headphone jack FM Radio Detachable battery (2.5 hours charging and 12 hours using)

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HIMS Co., Ltd.139-9, Gajung-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, KOREA, 305-350

http:///www.himsintl.com (Tel) 042-864-4460 (Fax) 042-864-4462 (Email) hims@himsintl.com

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