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 j43A7EG23208; Tue, 3 May 2005 06:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 06:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <003601c54fc7$b1a3b7b0$a730be44@Christopher> 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: "Christopher Lee" <christopherlee@mindspring.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4758] Re: Intonation and Interpretation of Computer read text. X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1732 Lines: 52 Michele I would be happy to point you in the direction of other AT (assistive technology) products. I also hated the audio books growing up in k-12 Christopher Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Anne Craig" <shellcraig@ix.netcom.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: [NIFL-LD:4756] Intonation and Interpretation of Computer read text. > 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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