Category: Let's talk
Hi all, I wasn't sure where to put this topick. It is about a confronce meeting the rnib are going to have about talking books on hursday th 19 of February. They want to put simthetick speech on to the talking books instead of a person. I don't like it. I think it will waste th whole thing the talking books listening to something like Window-eyes reading talking books. The rnib are going to phne me at 2.30 pm English time on the 19 and we will disscuss it. There will be six members of rnib and 2 mebers of staff. We are doing it over te phone. I just wonderded if anyone else had heard of this in theUK.
wow, i used to get the rnib talking books, and i agree with you. having a screen reader reading the books will just spoil it. tell me how the confrence goes
granted this will increasse the amount of books available, as printed material can be scanned and put into text to speach dam quick, but it will be a sorry state also, as the human reader is so much better. though for text books, such as eference books from the RNIB reference library, i think it's a good idea, but for leasure reading, no way, though i can see why they'd do it, in these times of economic hardship. in the end, people need to be paid to do the readings, although most are volunteers i believe.
Yes, I forgot about that, reading stuff from the libruay. It will be good for that but not for leasure reading.
i've spoken to someone from rnib, and they say they will never get away from human readers for leasure, but for text books maybe so. though i'd be glad to hear what happens re the teleconfrence.