Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j431F8G05266; Mon, 2 May 2005 21:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 21:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <410-2200552311237125@ix.netcom.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Michele Anne Craig" <shellcraig@ix.netcom.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4756] Intonation and Interpretation of Computer read text. X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: EarthLink MailBox 2005.1.57.0 (Windows) Status: O Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 30 Susan, I was so glad to see your post about the drawbacks of the technology for people if they don't have the infrastructure to support the technology. Also the thing you said about students having to reinterpret the text into more tonal reading really struck home with me. It is the difference between the books on tape that you get from the library and the books on tape that you get from the Library of Congress. My son is dyslexic, and he recently qualified to receive talking books, but he hates them for a few reasons -- the main one being that because the tapes are made so that you can speed them up to listen to the book faster, the readers are instructed not to put lots of expression into the reading since this would mess up the words when you speed up the tape. They also do things like read all the beginning of the book -- title pages, table of contents, the whole works! Listening to one of these almost atonal books is not at all the experience of having someone read to you or hearing a professional actor read. I think that it would take a lot of training to learn to use these books in how you listen. Just as you read for different purposes -- I guess you listen for different purposes too. Michele >
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