Reg: What is the name and item number? I have a moushie clock radio but not the best. So glad it has a nice female sexy voice. How nice for you. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: Reginald George To: Adaptive technology information and support. Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:19 AM Subject: [ATI] Got Voice Command Clock Radio, Minni Review
I'll have to do a podcast later. Right now I can just give you some first impressions. I loved the sound, and was pretty excited taking it out of the box. Comes with a nice wall adapter, the three triple a backup batteries, and has an MP3 player input jack that would also work for the Stream or book sense. Note: no cable for this is included. Sound is bassy through two full range speakers, so you would think stereo, but no where is this stated in the manual, so probably not. AM and FM reception is surprisingly good. Controls suck. An upside down U of 7 buttons on the top, all the same size, no distinguishing marks, and maybe 8 on the back. 4th button over is source, tap for A.M., F.M, and auxiliary, and hold down to turn the radio on and off. You tap the bar on the front edge for snooze, or to wake up the microphone. Guess I'll try to do a little better. left to right on top, record for naming stations volume down volume up source tune down tune up and preset. The snooze/sleep/voice command bar goes all the way across the front edge, making it easy to hit. I was hoping you could just say snooze or alarm off, but no such luck. Programming presets is a little tricky. You tap preset, then tap record and it asks for the station name twice. Then says station named successful. When I tried to set a second one it replaced the first preset, so you have to tap it multiple times for the preset you want, then tap record. I confirmed this in the manual. You can also scroll through your presets by tapping the pre-set button. Need to play with this. When you say voice command, then radio, it will ask you A.M. or F.M? You tell it, then it asks for the station name. That part is pretty slick. I just wish you could say radio off without having to physically go over and push the button, but I understand why that is. It would confuse the voice command. You say voice command before issuing commands. Nice sexy female voice. You can say help and get the list of commands. They include sleep for the sleep timer, radio and station name to have it go to a preset. Time, set time, set alarm, alarm 1 or alarm 2, and cancel. there's no calendar. You have to push the button to snooze. I read a lot of reviews that give it 1 star and say it locks up after a week and you have to pull back up batteries out and unplug to reset. For now it's pretty fun. Think making presets will be accessible, and it's cool to be able to name stations by voice. You have to hold the source button to turn radio off before it will respond to commands. Okay, Saved the best for last. I did find it on Amazon for the same $7.50 price, so if you don't mind spending $25 for free shipping, or paying for shipping, you can avoid that horrible Cowboom site. I did download the user guide and can send it to anyone who needs it. Reginald George Adaptive Technology Specialist Kansas City Missouri 816-200-1064 [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ATI (Adaptive Technology Inc.) A special interest affiliate of the Missouri Council of the Blind http://moblind.org/membership/affiliates/adaptive_technology
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