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[Click for Transcript]|[NLS Digital Talking Book Player Introduction]

Presenter: The most important feature for someone using the NLS digital talking book player is that it does not need the internet. A blind person can use it anywhere, any time, and any place without an internet connection or knowledge of technology. With this player, people in nursing facilities or young children can easily use it alone. And those who cannot afford the internet can have hours of spiritual content.

 

This is the National Library Service digital talking book player. And everyone gets this player free if they're visually impaired or physically handicapped. It has a button, that's a red recessed button to turn it off and on. And a green square play button in the front by the handle. So, for those of you who are visually impaired, it's made so you can actually feel the buttons with arrows that are pointing each way left and right. Next and previous. 

 

If you have a student that has a player, they want the advanced player, the model DA1. The way you can find out the difference is when the handle is pulled out in the front, there's a round speaker toward the back. You tell them to slide their fingers down the speaker toward the green square play button. And what buttons do they feel? They will probably feel the half-moon sleep button. And if there's no buttons between the half-moon and the speaker, they have the DS1, the standard player without the navigation keys that are below the speaker. The most important keys are these menu keys, the navigation keys. 

 

When you turn the player on, it starts saying file jump. Then it goes folder jump, phrase jump, bookmark jump in a rotation. File jump means it jumps chapter to chapter. When you put the thumb drive, that's the Bible library thumb drive, the menu navigation prompts, are file jump, folder jump, phrase jump, bookmark jump. Standard players are chapters or sections, but this thumb drive changes the normal prompts to different prompts. That's why it's important you know that, and if they're looking for chapter, you can help them to look for file. 

 

When they get the thumb drive, we have a lanyard on it because many blind ones lose the thumb drive. So, you want to tell them to throw the lanyard behind the handle, put it through the loop and slide it to the right and it will be able to fit in the USB port which is located on the side of the player just above the headphone jack. It slides into that port, and you want to have it in the port before you turn the player on. When you turn the player on, there'll be a series of six beeps. 

 

If you used a larger thumb drive, it takes 26 long beeps to load everything. You really don't want to use a thumb drive larger than 8 gigs. Player on. Audio files, current position, folder, one, file, one, time elapsed in file, zero, minute. Introduction to the Bible Library thumb drive. As soon as it starts, it begins playing.

 

To learn how to Bookmark, find the model number and navigate the Bible with the NLS player, please see the Help with How-to Videos Section on JW Blind Helper. [Click to close]