[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about MP3 audio
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:28:03 -0700 (PDT)
Hello!
First, is it Dasha or Daria? Your email says one, but some of your notes are
signed Daria, and I want to call you your preferred name, just like I prefer
Valerie over Val. Although I am sighted, I take no offense at wanting
immediate
answers. it is why I proof with book in hand 99.99% of the time. I do hope,
however, if you need a hand with an answer, you ask on the list as there are
many of us willing to try and get answers on Amazon peek or other not yet
accessible resources to bridge the gap.
Welcome to volunteering and a great group of folks to work with!
Valerie
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From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, June 4, 2012 9:38:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about MP3 audio
Yes and when there is the other audio option for us blind sucks. Wait around
until some cited person can either find a time or condescend's to come and read
something to you or we did over the phone. Thus, getting books and audio
formats
and using them maybe tedious but it's preferable to waiting around and making
proof times longer. About to the only thing you need a sighted person before
then is if you have page numbers missing since many audio formats don't include
page numbers. Sometimes I wish the reading in some of the bookshare books
didn't
use as many because it honestly breaks up the story for some people. There's
also the fact that when one uses a screen reader the screen reader has to stop
and read the page number. Talk about annoying and that is.
Sorry to all you sighted people out there I like you but I hate waiting around.
Particularly if I can find some other way to get it done.
Daria Radford
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:30 PM, "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> 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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