Milestone 311 User Manual Congratulations on purchasing the Daisy player “Milestone 311 Daisy” of Bones Inc., Switzerland. “Milestone 311 Daisy“ was developed specifically to meet the requirements of blind and visually impaired people. We hope that this user manual facilitates your optimal daily use of “Milestone 311 Daisy“. Bones Inc.
1. Brief Overview of Milestone 311 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. Voice recorder with internal memory .....................................................................4 Voice recorder with a memory card ......................................................................4 MP3 player ...........................................................................................................4 DAISY player ....................................................................................................
7.3. 7.3.1. 7.3.2. 7.3.3. 7.4. 7.4.1. 7.4.2. 7.5. 7.5.1. 7.5.2. 7.5.3. 7.5.4. 7.5.5. 7.5.6. 7.5.7. 7.5.8. 7.5.9. 7.5.10. 7.5.11. 7.5.12. 7.5.13. 7.6. 7.6.1. Bookmarks .........................................................................................................19 Inserting bookmarks ............................................................................................19 Erasing one bookmark.........................................................................................
1. Brief Overview of Milestone 311 Five applications in one handy device: • Voice recorder with internal memory, • Voice recorder with a memory card, • MP3 player that plays back from an inserted memory card, • DAISY audiobook player (if purchased this option), • Speakout tag reader (if purchased this option). The two voice recording applications differ only in the type of memory used but not in their functionality.
1.5. Speakout tag reader Speakout is a hardware add-on that can read electronic tags put on various objects, such as drug packages, CDs, boxes and much more. 1.6. Data transfer between Milestone 311 and a computer Milestone 311 may be connected to a computer through the supplied USB cable Audio files in MP3 format can be transferred between Milestone 311 and a computer. This allows simple exchange of audio files in MP3 format between people as well as creating data backups 2.
• “FF” button or right arrow button (right button with embossed right arrow pattern) • “Mode” button (bottom button with an embossed cross pattern) The sixth pushbutton is called “Selector” and it is used to rotate between the three available applications “voice recorder with internal memory”, “voice recorder with a memory card” and “MP3 player”.
Selection of line-in entrance “Selector” + “FF” + “Rew” as recording source (only for “voice recorder with memory card” application) Playback “Play” “Next recording from external source” Pause “Play” - Playback next message “FF” - - Playback previous message “Rew”, if within 3 seconds of start of playback Playback same message “Rew” (after the message from start has played for more than 3 seconds) Jump to last message “FF” + “Play” within a folder Jump to first message “Rew” + “Play” within a folde
MP3 navigation within a “Rew” hierarchical level – right MP3 navigation from one “Mode” hierarchical level to another hierarchical level – down MP3 navigation from one “Rec” hierarchical level to another hierarchical level – up Folder name (if available) Folder name (if available) otherwise playback of first MP3 file Folder name (if available) 3. Detailed description of operation of all functions 3.1. On/off (sleep mode) Milestone 311 has no on/off switch.
3.4. Locking of keyboard To lock the keyboard, keep the “Mode” button (bottom button with an embossed cross pattern) pressed, while simultaneously pressing the “Rec” button (top button with round indent the size of a pinhead). By doing this, all functions of the device are disabled. This is indicated by the message “Keyboard locked”. To unlock the keyboard, press the same combination of buttons once again. The device will acknowledge this with the message “Keyboard active”.
If using the charger verify that the wall outlet is carrying current, if using the USB cable check the computer. A beep will also sound if the battery is already fully charged. You may easily check for the latter by pressing the “Mode” button (bottom button with an embossed cross pattern) for 1.5 seconds. You may recharge the battery of your Milestone 311 at any time. The memory effect known from nickel-metal hydride batteries does not apply since this voice recorder contains a rechargeable lithium battery.
4.2. Recording 4.2.1. Short recording To record messages, press the “Rec” button (top button with round indent the size of a pinhead) and keep it pressed while recording. For best results, speak at a normal volume and hold the device at a distance of approximately 10 cm (4 inches) from your mouth. Milestone 311 stores recorded messages in one of five selectable folders. The folders carry the internal names M1 to M5.
performed with 24 kbps. Recording resolution is always 16 bit at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz (line-in) or 32 kHz (microphone). If the memory is already full when attempting a recording or becomes full during a recording the message “Memory full” is played. If the memory card is removed during a recording onto the memory card the message “No memory card” is played. The integrity of a recorded message is not guaranteed if the memory card is removed during a recording.
After reaching the last message no further jumping forward is possible. If such a jump is attempted a beep will sound. The same is true for backward jumps. 5.2. Jump to the first or last message within a folder To reach the first recorded message in a folder, press and hold down the left arrow button while simultaneously and quickly pressing the “Play” button (middle button which contains no symbol). The first message will play.
5.5. Folder selection Within the voice recording applications Milestone 311 possesses five folders each on the internal memory and on inserted memory cards. Each folder may be selected directly via a two-button combination. For this purpose you need to keep the “Selector” button pressed and briefly press down on any of the five topside buttons. “Rec” for folder 1, “Rew” for folder 2, “Play” for folder 3, “FF” for folder 4 and “Mode” for folder 5.
keyboard of Milestone 311. On SD cards the contacts are easy to locate by the large grooves next to them. With MMC cards locating the contacts is more difficult because the grooves are very small. SD cards, unlike MMC cards, may not be inserted incorrectly in Milestone 311 (except by use of force). The card needs to be pushed in until only about 2 mm (0.1“) of it stick out. This is also indicated by the engaging of the locking mechanism.
to newspapers which are structured by folders. These structures are usually generated electronically and an “AUTONEXT.YES” file may as well be generated automatically for each folder. 6.3. Navigation Navigation within a hierarchical level is achieved with the “FF” and “Rew” buttons. The “Rec” and “Mode” buttons are used to navigate from one hierarchical level to another hierarchical level. 6.3.1.
6.3.3. Observed folder sequence during navigation If you are using the same memory card for the two applications “voice recorder with a memory card” and “MP3 player” then in addition to the MP3 files which you transferred from the computer to the memory card you will also find the five folders from the “voice recorder with a memory card” application on the memory card. These folders are named M1 to M5.
7.2. Charging Daisy books Milestone 311 Daisy accepts your Daisy books on a memory card that is inserted on the side of the device. This is a so-called SD memory card. SD stands for “Secure Digital“, which denotes a world-wide standard for memory cards. These memory cards are available in your electronic shop. Please ask your audio library how to get hold of Daisy audio books easily. Possibly your audio library already provides Daisy books on SD memory cards.
7.2.3. Continue reading in a Daisy book Milestone automatically continues to read where you stopped to read before. The marker is set automatically, and it is stored inside the book you read. It is important to know that this marker is set only if Milestone puts itself into the sleep mode, or a PC is connected, or the book is changed to another book on the same memory card, or you change to a different mode of your Milestone, for example "internal memory".
7.5. Navigation in the Daisy book User friendliness has top priority with Milestone 311. With only four buttons you may navigate in a Daisy book easily! 7.5.1. The structural levels of a Daisy book To navigate with Milestone efficiently you need to understand how the structure of a Daisy book is set up. A Daisy book has different levels analogous to the chapter structure and substructure in a printed book.
7.5.3. Levels “chapter and subchapter“ On this level you get to the next/previous chapter or subchapter by pressing the right and left arrow button. The depth of the subchapters may vary according to the Daisy books. As many levels are announced as there are convoluted chapters. These levels are announced by Milestone by: “First level“, ”second level“, etc. 7.5.4. Level “phrases“ On this level you get to the next/previous phrase by pressing the arrow buttons.
Bookmarks are saved directly into the book, they are therefore saved to the memory card. The advantages are that you are able to exchange bookmarks with friends and that bookmarks are always clearly assigned to a book when working with several books on several memory cards. You may insert at the most 120 bookmarks per book. This level is announced by Milestone by: “bookmark“. 7.5.11. Level “history“ On this level you may retrace the previously accessed positions in the Daisy book.
According to the length of the root directory, only 100-500 data files can be managed in it. Daisy books however often include many hundreds of data files and thus the maximum possible number of files will be exceeded. Typically this is expressed by the error message initially mentioned and the observation that your memory card still disposes of much memory capacity.
- like this, you won‘t insert it upside down. When entered properly, Milestone acknowledges with a double beep „low-high“. Do not force the module to enter; it must enter easily. If you feel it is stuck somehow, remove it and try again. The module is entered properly if you feel and hear a gentle click. Now, rotate through your Milestone by pressing the Selector button on top of Milestone, until you hear „Speakout“ as selected device. 8.4.2.
To tag CDs, put the dedicated tags with a hole in the middle directly onto a CD. Be careful to put them absolutely centric around the hole. Put them on the flat surface of the CD, not on the side with the channel around the hole. Under no circumstances put tags on the outer side of the CD. Beside the fact that it won‘t work there anyway, you might damage your CD player due to the unbalanced way of turning of the CD. Tags won’t work on CD’s that have metallic surfaces up to the inner loop.
9.2. Data administration Data administration including set-up of data structures with all desired folders will be performed on a computer and transferred to Milestone 311 via a USB connection. Voice labels for the folders on the other hand need to be recorded through Milestone 311. The alphanumeric name which a folder carries from the computer’s point of view (e.g., “Documents”) does not necessarily have any connection with the additional voice label which you may give the same folder.
Does the device have adequate power supply? Connect your voice recorder to a power outlet and ensure that the charger is powered. Recharge the built-in battery for at least half an hour. Step 2: Is the device turned on? Press any button for at least half a second.
test recording. Should this not be possible again, then, your device is not functioning properly. Please contact your sales representative. 11.2. Reformat memory If your Milestone 311 plays the message “No file system.
15. Technical data • Recording capacity: 120 minutes • Frequency range speech: 150 Hz to 8 kHz, music: 40 Hz to 20 kHz • Bit rate during recording over built-in microphone: 24 kbps • Bit rate during recording through line-in entrance: 192 kbps • Sampling rate during recording over built-in microphone: 32 kHz • Sampling rate during recording through line-in entrance: 44.1 kHz • Sample resolution during recording: 16 bit • Bit rate for playback: 8 kbps to 320 kbps • USB 1.
