Hello,
My name is Sandra. I am a Soprano Singer but I undertake a lot of
radio work and voiceover work as well as acting. I only use my
Braillenote to read a script as a back-up, I emboss my scripts as
reading this way makes less noise during a recording. Also, the only
pauses are page turns. If you trip up, slow down. In an audiobook
context, it may even work for a particular character to use pause and
varied speeds.
Justin,
When you say you want to enter the voiceover industry, do you mean you
wish to make money or are you concentrating on getting your reading
technique right first. My email address is sandragayer7@xxxxxxxxx if
you want to talk to me off list.
Very best wishes,
Sandra.
On 11/28/19, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Justin
Some further food for thought to add to the valuable suggestions already
offered. I briefly used a Focus 14 recently - not long enough to be
completely familiar with it. You mentioned going to next line. I have a
vague recollection that there is also an option to move right, which may
resolve the issue you have with new material not appearing.
Out of interest, there is a competent blind news reader in Australia who
uses JAWS with speech output. She shadows what the screen reader is saying.
Long ago I tried that technique for a couple of presentations. It worked,
but did not suit the less formal style I wanted. I do like the NVDA feature
where pressing spacebar pauses at the exact spot.
I do envy people who can read Braille quickly enough to read material
directly. When I had access to a Braille display I used it to prompt me
rather than reading from a complete script. Whether that approach works
will depend to some extent on the type of presentation.
Earlier this year I did a series of videos to demonstrate correct document
structure. An approach which worked well for me when tripping over my
tongue was to pause and start the phrase again. I then went through the
recording and edited out the glitches. In short (five minutes or so)
recordings I found that approach less disruptive than stopping and fixing
mistakes. It may get a bit tedious for longer sessions. That said,
Audacity's excellent labelling facilities may prove useful. At each
position where you need to do some cleaning up, without stopping recording,
press control-m and Enter. By using alt-right arrow you can quickly locate
each point where a correction is needed. I have just checked and,
pleasingly, as material gets deleted subsequent labels move left and still
point to the relevant piece of audio.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin Williams
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2019 7:13 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
I use JAWS 2019.
Focus 40 blue. Braille display
There could be a setting, I'm just using it on default.
Sometimes, when you go down a line, the braille doesn't appear and you have
to go down again.
Maybe I need to put in on just one sentence per line.
80 gives you more relastate.
Thanks,
Justin
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Hänggi
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:50 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
I don't think that there will be much clutter so don't worry.
What screen reader are you using?
It is a long time ago that I've used a Braille display.
I thought at the time that 40 cells were enough, 80 were rather painful for
me over time due to the big movements.
I guess your device has automatic line switching, you might try that.
Don't worry about the pauses, Audacity is quite good at handling those
(truncate silence, crossfade clips, etc.) Also, there's the punch out
command (Shift+D) where you can record over a recent misttake at the end of
the track, where it gives you the ability to listen to the section before
it.
Robert
On 27/11/2019, Justin Williams <justin.williams2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good afternoon,
I'm planning to go into voice overs and am looking for the best way to
read scripts, so I'm assuming that some of you record
narration videos.
Please e-mail me off list as to not clutter it with responses for the
question below.
I have a 40 cell braille display.
If I were to begin narrating audio books, or narration for
professional learning videos for employees, is there a setting I
should change for the most fluid reading, or should I just get an 80 cell
braille display.
If you have another strategy, please share with me.
Thanks,
Justin
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