[bksvol-discuss] Re: Auditory Processing Disorder and Reading Accessibility
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:44:00 -0600
Dear Monica;
Just like so many areas in health care, there are a wide range of variance in
people who have auditory processing disorders. I certainly don't know what is
considered typical, I just know about the spectrum they can cover. The new
Acapello voices are far superior for most people. I think you will be pleased
with the investment.
Unfortunately I am in no position to site I have read things as my computers
are in total upheaval. I can only speak to my 2 children who were identified as
having auditory processing disorders and the fact that they could not follow
commands by earlier speech devices using DECtalk and I was told that that was
common. I know that many individuals with auditory processing disorders could
not retain information presented in SAPI 4 voices and then he still can only
use some of the SAPI 5 voices. Sorry I cannot be of more help. I know more
about solutions then the research behind them. Smiles.
Valerie
On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Monica Willyard wrote:
> Hi Valerie. I'm probably an odd exception to the auditory processing
> disorder group. I don't know what is typical, and I'm learning more about it
> as I go. I was only correctly diagnosed this year, as an adult. Like Nicole,
> I like the new Acapella voice Bookshare gives us and would love to have all
> of my devices and programs use that voice, especially JAWS. I'm going to buy
> it for my computer as soon as I can afford it.
>
> You mentioned that people with auditory processing disorder don't recognize
> TTS speech as sound. That confuses me a little. Do you have any books or web
> sites you could recommend about this? If there is no information on
> Bookshare, I will look for a couple of books to scan about it. I seem to be
> backward if this is normal. Then again, I'm blind too, so maybe normal isn't
> really applicable.
>
> I do well using specific types of speech, and there are some human readers I
> can barely comprehend. My inability to understand certain readers makes
> those books inaccessible for me unless I scan them for myself. That's
> something champions of audiobooks probably don't really understand. I look
> at the name of the narrator of a book or listen to a sample of the speech
> before even considering buying it from Audible.
>
> I like books that are in a text format so I can use a voice that I
> understand clearly. I prefer Braille if I can get it. If not, I need a
> fairly constant, very clear, and unaccented voice to cope with reading. When
> I have to use a device with a confusing voice, I use my computer to record
> books into mp3 files using a voice that I do understand well. Then I put my
> good files on the bad device and can function well.
>
> Knowing what I'm dealing with, and that it will benefit our deaf/blind
> members as well, I usually end up scanning books I want to read from NLS
> unless they have the book in WebBraille. I often end up scanning my Audible
> books too, especially ones that I want to learn from or read in depth.
>
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:18 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
>
> I have to agree with Judy. As a matter of fact, Nichole would never listen
> to a synthetic voice until the acapella voices that are now available on her
> device. I don't know anyone who prefers TTS over audio books and most are
> more than willing to pay for the alternative. The only people who learn to
> accept TTS are those who need a wider range of books or budget constraints
> make the other alternative unaffordable. Then there are people with auditory
> processing disorders who do not even acknowledge TTS as speech as it is
> processed slightly differently in the brain.
>
> In my opinion we need to constantly be exploring and expanding all mediums
> all of text accessibility and in a cooperative effort like Bookshare, I
> think that everyone comes out winners. I know that even though I have a
> membership now I will probably almost exclusively be a volunteer due to time
> constraints, but being a member will allow me to check how certain things
> are handled in the final process or view how proofreaders have handled my
> scans.
>
> Interesting dialogue everyone...
> Valerie
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Judy s.
>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:39 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
>>
>> I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital
>> rights management.
>>
> <snip>
>> 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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