[bksvol-discuss] opticbook and nass narkets

There is definitely not equal access. If I buy a mass market from amazon, it usually turns out to be a pretty crappy scan, that means, like Amber, I have to spend hours editing it just to make it readable. I hate mass markets, no matter what I do they turn out crummy. I'm going to update the drivers on the opticbook when I get home in hopes they scan better, if not, what settings do you all use for those? 
Julia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> 
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I agree wholeheartedly with everyone here, accessibility is key to making not only consumer appliances and such that the sighted world does indeed take advantage of accessible for everyday use, also applies to books and what we use to read books with in whatever formats we choose, amen and amen! 
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"If you go without playing the trumpet for one day, no one knows, two days, only you know, and more than three days without practicing, girl you better look out, because everyone will know!" Today, I find myself constantly saying those words, just to get myself going, to not give up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at the tender age of 10, I have spent so much passion and much diligence with that instrument that I will not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts me into awkward situations where I feel like they won't ever end, but the trumpet gives me a lot of hope with the majestic, crystal-clear sound it brings to my ears. 
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 12:54 PM
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Very good points, Judy. I'd also like to add that most of my sighted friends can't even understand the speech synthesizer on my computer. They're always asking me, "How can you understand that?". So, I am sure that they wouldn't be buying books and listening to them with TTS. 

Melissa



Judy s. wrote:

Interesting points from everyone!  smile.
I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital rights management.
What happened when the digital rights management was removed from mp3 music downloads? Sales zoomed up! It didn't change the behaviors of people who were going to steal mp3s. They didn't steal any more mp3s than they were already stealing -- they just continued stealing the ones they wanted. However, it did change the market in that a large market segment (myself included) who refused to buy something that had draconian and intrusive "rights" protection on it stepped in and now bought the product that was being offered when the digital rights management was removed and the product was offered at a reasonable price.
I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare downloads using either DAISY or Text Aloud has become an acquired taste, one I've become used to and actually very much enjoy.
If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a professional reader and studio to produce the master for each and every book that becomes an audible book.
I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it. 

Just my opinion.  Grin.

Judy s.

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