[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about MP3 audio
- From: Ixchel <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:46:18 -0400
Maybe so but some of the Google books are images that's not readable.
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On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I understand what is being talked about now, but it doesn't seem like
> something that would be very efficient. How, for example, could you get the
> spelling of a word from an audio book? I think Google books is a better
> option.
>
> On 6/4/2012 10:30 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> If, for example, NLS has a copy of a book recorded, or someone has purchased
>> an audiobook from audible.com, but they were proofreading that same book to
>> add to the Bookshare collection, they could listen to the mp3 to hear what
>> missing words in a scan should be.
>>
>> It'd be, in my opinion, very tedious to find particular text in an audiobook
>> to compare, but sometimes, you've gotta do what you gotta do to get the job
>> done.
>>
>> It's the audible option for a blind person, where a sighted proofreader
>> could checkout a copy of a print book from their library to compare the
>> scanned text and fix scanning errors.
>>
>> Does that help, or did I just totally muddy the waters?
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
>> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 7:24 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about MP3 audio
>>
>> What does not make sense to me, though, is the comment about using the
>> MP3 books to proofread. I don't understand that.
>>
>> On 6/4/2012 10:18 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
>>> Hi Dasha,
>>>
>>> Whew, a question I can answer with confidence and ease! Thank you!
>>>
>>> When you request books in mp3 format, they will become available to
>>> you more quickly if someone else has requested that particular book
>>> before. It takes longer to create the mp3 book the first time it is
>> requested.
>>> Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> Mayrie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dasha
>>> Radford
>>> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 7:12 PM
>>> To: Bookshare Volunteers
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about MP3 audio
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Does anybody ever use the audio versions of books to proof read? And
>>> also anybody have any idea why one book no correction two of the books
>>> I downloaded in MP3 format we're done with in three minutes and my
>>> third one is taking its own sweet time? Just curious as to why to
>>> books would be done so fast and then the third one be so awfully slow.
>>> Thanks,
>>> DR
>>>
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