[access-uk] Re: Help required please?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:40:24 -0000
The NVDA screen reader or access program might be a good choice:
http://www.nvda-project.org/
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
Jackie Cairns
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help required please?
Thanks Ray, I'll forward these links.
He mentioned a free screen reader too. Would Thunder be any help in
the
scenario he is looking for does anyone know?
Thanks.
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:22 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help required please?
> Jackie, first off there's
> www.blindcooltech.com
> There stuff's all spoken reviews.
>
> How's about the Soundings Magazine:
> www.soundings.org
>
> There interviews are very well recorded on the whole so no problems
> understanding what's being said.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Jackie Cairns
> 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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