New Contents Support

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