Plextalk Pocket

The PLEXTALK Pocket is a lightweight, pocket-sized, DAISY-compliant music, voice, and book player/recorder that offers revolutionary mobility and ease of use by anyone in business, education and leisure. It is the world's first true crossover media player/recorder which contains a host of applications and which also comes packed with features that support unsurpassed accessibility for people with sight problems or learning difficulties.

Various Uses

• With the PLEXTALK Pocket in your bag or in shirt pocket, you can enjoy listening to digital talking books and play your favorite music.
• Dimension : 55 x 112 x 16mm or 2.2 x 4.4 x 0.6inches, weight : 110 g or 3.9 ounces only!
• More useful recording features than IC recorders; just press a button to insert a heading while recording long conferences or classes, and you can playback only what you want to review by navigating by the headings. Also, the voice memo can be used for remembering telephone numbers, appointments, To Do Lists, etc.
•  PLEXTALK Pocket features the world’s first wireless LAN function as a dedicated DAISY digital book player. This function offers you a usage of sharing your books or files between your computer and your PLEXTALK Pocket via wireless LAN at your home or office without using a USB cable. More features by using this wireless LAN connections will be expected with further enhancements of firmware.
• Choice of sound output, built-in large volume speaker or bundled stereo earphone.
• You can add more capacity with a larger SD cards thus storing to carry as many books and music titles as you want. PLEXTALK Pocket supports up to 32GB SDHC.
• Sleep timer function that switches off by itself automatically at the setting time.
  • Connect to a Windows PC*1 and the PLEXTALK Pocket becomes an external drive by using the bundled USB cables, or becomes a network shared folder via wireless LAN at your home or office. You just drag-and-drop files on your PC to PLEXTALK Pocket, without any specific folder name rules. Now you are ready to go out with your favorite DAISY books, other digital talking books, MP3or WMA*2 music, text, html, MS-Word doc, etc.
  *1 Windows 2000, XP or Vista
  *2 unprotected Windows Media Audio format
• If you have our PTR1 or PTR2 products, you can copy the contents on your CD from either of them to the PLEXTALK Pocket without a PC. Just connect the devices with a USB cable, and then press ‘9’ key to back up the files on CD to the SD card in the PLEXTALK Pocket.
• PLEXTALK Pocket plays back from major content providers in the U.S.A, Bookshare.org, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D), Serotek SAMNET DAISY books*3. NLS contents are supported. PLEXTALK Pocket supports Audible.com audio books.
  Please contact the content provider to subscribe, and ask how to download contents onto your PC.
• The battery is recharged via USB. Just connect your PLEXTALK Pocket to your PC or any USB port! 

Features:

Playback

DAISY Book Playback - PLEXTALK Pocket supports DAISY2.02, ANSI/NISO Z39.86/DAISY3.0. You can playback not only DAISY audio books but also text-based DAISY books. Many national library services and content providers publish and distribute DAISY-structured books.

Music or Various Audio Book Playback - PLEXTALK Pocket detects music files or other audio files inside the SD card or USB media such as flash memory or a CD drive automatically if those files are not associated with DAISY books. Press the play/stop key for playback and the right or left key to move to the next or previous title.
You can also playback music titles of a music CD inserted in a USB external CD/DVD drive. 

Text / HTML Contents Playback Using Embedded Text-To-Speech Engine - PLEXTALK Pocket identifies text-based files inside the SD card or USB flash memory automatically and reads the file using the built-in text-to-speech (TTS) engine. You can navigate plain text files, html files or Microsoft doc files by paragraph, sentence, word, character, percentage, etc.

Playback from External USB Drive - Press the title key to select media where the content you want to playback is stored.

Large Volume Speaker Built-in - A powerful mono speaker is built into the body.
Volume is adjusted in 26 steps. 

Play Speed / Tone Adjustment - The 1 key is allocated for play speed/tone adjustment setting. Speed is changed at 11 settings, tone is adjusted at 13 settings.

Recording

Voice Recording with DAISY Structure - Using the record key and play/stop key, you can record the sound from the built-in microphone or line-in/microphone jack. Editing feature to insert heading and erase sections is available to make the recorded contents as DAISY structure.

You can select your preferred sound quality setting from PCM 44.1kHz stereo, PCM 22.05kHz mono, MP3 256kbps stereo, MP3 128kbps stereo, MP3 64kbps mono and MP3 32kbps mono.

Voice Memo-Taking Capability - Press and hold down the record key and speak the memo. You can record up to 1 minute per memo and a maximum of 200 memos.

High Quality Built-in Microphone - Built-in microphone is used both for monaural sound recording by DAISY structure and for voice memo taking.

Plug-in Power for External Microphone - Line-in/microphone jack supply power for external microphone without power plug. 

Media

Support for removable 32GB SD cards and USB flash memory - You can expand the capacity of storage up to a 32 GB SD card.

Media Transfer from USB without PC - You can back up the contents in external USB media connected to the USB port. 
 

Network Connection

Wireless LAN Function for Network File Sharing - PLEXTALK Pocket features the world’s first wireless LAN function as a dedicated DAISY digital book player. This function offers you a usage of sharing your books or files between your computer and your PLEXTALK Pocket via wireless LAN at your home or office without the use of a USB cable.

Power

Battery Rechargeable via AC Adapter and USB - A replaceable lithium polymer battery designed for PLEXTALK Pocket supplies power up to 10 hours for playback or recording. The battery is fully recharged via the bundled AC adaptor in about 4 hours.

Sleep Timer - Quickly press and release the Power key once to set 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1 and a half hour and two hours.

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