[access-uk] Re: Help required please?
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:20:07 -0000
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.
--
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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