Wireless network connection

• Wireless LAN channel No. 12 and 13 are enabled for Europe language versions. This expansion allows your Pocket to connect to an access point which uses channel No. 12 or 13.

Wireless network connection

• Network folder function: You can upload / download content between SD card in Pocket and your computer by wireless LAN capability.
  NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO USE THE PLEXTALK SETTING UTILITY SOFTWARE TO CONFIGURE NETWORK SETTING ON YOUR POCKET. THE LATEST SOFWARE IS AVAILABLE AT: http://www.plextalk.com/in/download.html#sd

Content support

• Audible.com audio book support: Pocket supports Audible format 4.

More flexible adjustments of volume and speed

• Different settings for content playback and voice guides
• Different speed settings for ‘text’ (DAISY titles or text-based files), ‘audio books’ (DAISY audio book or Audible books) and ‘audio music’.
• Different volume settings for headphone and the internal speaker.
• “Guide speed” setting option has been moved from the Menu system to the “1” Key (The Tone/Speed Key).

Enhancements for quick and easy navigation

• “Shortcut menu” function: You can assign a shortcut for your favorite item in the Menu system to a Number Key Pad.
• “Recently titles” list navigation added on the Go-to Key after pressing the Title Key.
• Faster rewinding and forwarding speeds of Left/Right Key.
• ‘Percent’ navigation during DAISY book playback.
• Quick power on after pressing the Power Key.

More detailed navigation of text-based content

• Spell navigation on text contents: Spelling out the characters with word message.
• Telling the punctuations in the word navigation.

Other features for more ease-of-use

• Folder name announcement during title selection.
• Multiple DAISY books in one folder are recognized and played.
• Pocket starts to play the Help manual automatically after pressing the ‘0’ Key.
• Default level of navigation for a DAISY book is the lowest level of heading in level 1 to 6.
• The level of navigation of a DAISY title remains unchanged when pressing the Up/Down Key once.
• Pocket opens the title selection menu automatically after removing the title on the media management of the Menu system.
• Plug-in power suspended automatically when external audio is set at ‘line-in mode’.

Bug fix

• Correct announcement after deleting a DAISY title by Media Management on the menu system. When you delete a title on a SD card where another title are available, your Pocket will move to that title and announce its title name.

New Contents Support

• Serotek support: Protected DAISY books from serotek is now supported.
  http://serotek.com
  

New Contents Support

• Microsoft Word .doc file support: To read a Microsoft Word .doc file on SD card or USB flash memory by the TTS engine. Pocket PTP1 categorizes MS Word .doc in 'text'.
• WMA (Window Media Audio) support: To play back unprotected WMA format audio files on SD card or USB flash memory.
• Bookshare book playback improvement: To announce the title name of a Bookshare book. To navigate a Bookshare book by page properly.

More Simplified and Intuitive Operations

• All key responses have been improved. A key confirmation sound or a voice prompt comes up more quickly after pressing a key (fast forward, rewind, level navigation, direct title/content jump, menu selection, etc.).
• New option to eliminate the sounds made after key press. On 'Select the Key Press Confirmation Sound' of 'System Settings' on the Menu, you can choose those sound 'On' or 'Off'
• Announce an album/track name of audio content. On 'Reading audio file name' of 'Playback Settings' of the Menu, you can choose the announcing options of either 'Read Album/Track Name' or 'Read Album/Track Number'. Pocket PTP1 announces a folder name where the audio content is stored as the album name, and a file name without the file extension as the track name of the audio content.
• Automatic bookmark numbering. If you do not want to determine the number of a bookmark you are going to set, just press the Bookmark Key twice then press the Enter Key, so Pocket PTP1 will automatically give the smallest bookmark number you were not using. If you press the '0' Key and the Enter Key after you press the Bookmark Key twice, Pocket PTP1 will also give you the smallest number automatically.
• Changed the title/folder/category announcements. When you select a title after pressing the Title Key, Pocket PTP1 makes simple announcements than the previous versions. And when you want to select a folder by pressing the 'Up' Key following the Title Key, Pocket PTP1 announces the folder name.
• Play text files more naturally when going to the next line.
• Changed the order of the items in 'System Settings' of the Menu. 'Initialize all settings to default' has been moved to the last item.

More Powerful Navigation

• Added two navigation levels for text playback; 'line' and 'screen'. 1) Forty words or 2) less than forty words before a carriage return have been defined as a 'line'. Forty lines has been defined as a 'screen'.
  Now you can navigate a text file by screen, paragraph, line, sentence, word or character., and a DAISY title by heading (level 1 to 6), group, page, phrase, screen, paragraph, line, sentence, word or character if such items are defined on the DAISY title.
• Added a DAISY-like level navigation feature for html files by recognizing H1 through H6 heading levels.

Recording and Playing Feature Enhancement

• Improved the recording sound quality by MP3 for DAISY recording and voice memo.
• Added MP3 high-quality modes on 'Back-up' of music CD. After pressing the '9' Key to back up a music CD on a CD drive connected to Pocket PTP1, you can select 'MP3 256kbps high-quality' or 'MP3 128kbps high-quality' in addition to the previous modes, 'MP3 256kbps', 'MP3 128kbps' and 'PCM'. When you select either of the two modes, you can back up better sound quality music titles into a SD card. Please note that those modes need 20% to 90% more time to back up the music than the previous MP3 modes.
• Enhanced the compatibility with variety of MP3 formats.
• To announce decryption key information on the Menu. After you install a key to decrypt a PDTB title (for example, books from NLS or RFB&D), you can check whether the key has been installed properly by hearing this announcement. The announcement is heard on 'System Properties' of 'System Settings' on the Menu.

New Contents Support

• NLS support: To install the key to decrypt and play NLS contents in a NLS cartridge or transferred from the NLS BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) site through PC
  Please click here for a guide to play NLS books on Pocket.
• RFB&D support: To install UAK to decrypt and play RFB&D contents on Pocket PTP1
• Ogg support: To play back Ogg audio files

TTS Feature Enhancement

• Two languages TTS engines except U.K. or U.S. version firmware (one is English and the other is local language)
• Announce the name of the voice of TTS when selecting the voice on the Menu Key, by speaking in the same language
• Adjusted TTS sound loudness for better TTS sound quality at near maximum volumes on the built-in speaker

Response Improvement

• Fast forward and rewind: To shorten the silent period around "5 seconds" and "10 seconds"
• Quick key response: particularly responsiveness of right/left arrow keys when choosing DAISY titles

Navigation Feature Enhancement

• Jump directly to a DAISY title or an album you want to play by selecting the title or album number with 10 keys
• Assign '#' key as Enter Key and '*' key as Cancel Key
• Not announce the media when navigating title by title using Right or Left Key, but announce only the title
• Announce the folder name when navigating DAISY titles by folder using the Up or Down Key
• Keep the current level of the DAISY title after recording voice memo
• After you record and make a new DAISY title when you select an audio file, the new DAISY title is selected to check if the DAISY title has been made successfully
• Change it to notify you that you cannot backup/buildbook this content before backup/buildbook about the Daisy book which there is the number of the headlines (the sections) more than 1,000

Usability Enhancement

• Order of time announcement: 'date -> time' to 'time -> date'
• New sleep timer setting: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1 and a half hour and two hours
• '24-hour' time announcement (except U.S. English firmware and Canadian firmware)
• Cancel and get out of the menu when you choose a DAISY title which is not editable at 'edit' on the Menu Key
• Play back the beginning of the voice memo automatically after recording to confirm whether this title is a target to delete
• Optimize the volume of the voice prompts not moving from the lowest volume to the highest volume or vice versa
• Admit to backup PDTB contents located in Root folder of the original media (e.g. NLS cartridge) to a folder in SD card of Pocket PTP1
• Announce "please wait" when just after power supply ON.

Bug Fix

• Correct announcement of lock status of SD card
• Correct announcement of battery status
• Correct inverted L-R channels while recording with external stereo microphone
• Correct heading or phrase jump precision on a title which has been recorded for long time at MP3

This issue has been fixed.

Performance improvement

• Sound quality improvement for TTS voice

Bug fix

• Special characters on DAISY text, HTML, txt files was not pronounced properly.

This issue has been fixed.

Performance Improvement

• Audio quality improvement for recoding
• USB compatibility for PC/peripherals has been improved.

Bug fix

• TTS pronunciation of special characters has been fixed.
• Beginning of an audio file was sometimes not heard when starting playback.

This issue has been fixed.