[access-uk] Re: Help required please?

Ah, Jackie, are we bringing back Shorthand again?  Trouble is, we don't have 
the machines that can really hack it now ... or the teachers.

So I guess what they're really wanting is various passages read at speeds, or a 
machine that can be variable.  Jaws or Window-Eyes set to various speech 
settings may suffice for the documents, but I'm not sure that you'll find a 
really suitable machine for very high speeds these days.

I'm interested to know what happens with this one so keep me posted, please.

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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jackie Cairns 
  To: Access UK Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:10 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Help required please?


  Hi List

  The tutor of the online course I am doing in Sports Journalism has sent me 
the request pasted below.  Does anyone have any suggestions I could pass onto 
him please?

  The info he is looking for is below my signature.

  Many thanks for any help.

  Jackie

  I wondered if I could pick your brains? We are developing online shorthand 
training for journalists, and I have been recording dictation passages as voice
  files, which we send as email attachments. This works quite well. 

  But I wondered - do you know any good sites where there are audios or 
podcasts etc containing passages of people speaking? It doesn't really matter 
what
  the passages are about, or how long - though if you new any shorthand 
dictation sites this would be wonderful! 

  We've searched the web high and low, with limited results ofher nthan BBC 
news-type podcasts - but it occured to me that there might be facilities for the
  blind that we may not have heard of? 

  Or - are there any good, free screen readers available to download - so that 
we could send people text, which could be read to them - though preferably
  the students would be able to select the speed at so-many words per minute.

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