[bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber Wednesday, January 9, 2008>

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:23:22 -0600

Many thanks, E.  I can only marvel at your kindness and understanding.  You 
even helped me to understand Liz's post, and I thought that was beautiful!!!

Thanks,

Sue S.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber 
Wednesday, January 9, 2008>


Jim's talk is worthy of full transcription. You as a member of
bookshare and a deaf blind user particularly will get support from me
on this one. That talk is one of those things which needs to be in
complete form to fully express Jim's creative spark.

E.


At 04:41 PM 1/11/2008, you wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>It is unreasonable for deaf-blind people to expect to participate in an
>audio chatroom, and Liz said this is an unreasonable accommodation in one 
>of
>her posts.  Speaking for myself, as a deaf-blind person and member and
>volunteer for bookshare, I would love to see summaries of the presentations
>that directly affect volunteers and members of bookshare.  Not a full-blown
>transcript, but a good summary of what someone like Jim Fruchterman says
>would please me immensely.  If it is on the friends of bookshare site, all
>you people would need to do is post an announcement on this list, and I, 
>for
>oone, would go download the summary.
>
>Thank you for your concern.  <smiling>
>
>Sue S.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:20 PM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber
>Wednesday, January 9, 2008>
>
>
>Hi Rose,
>I wonder how many deaf-blind persons use the chat room client and are on
>Bookshare.  One person justifies our efforts here though.
>Bob Acosta
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:38 AM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber
>Wednesday, January 9, 2008>
>
>
> > talking, and getting exact quotes.  I transcribed a session last summer
> > that
> > took about an hour and a half of recording time and it took me nearly 6
> > hours to transcribe it, read through it, make any corrections I needed 
> > and
> > have it ready for presentation.  This take into account that I did not
> > have
> > my own computer to work on and no shorthand program and especially not 
> > one
> > set up for this type of work.  I do medical transcription for a living 
> > and
> > must admit it would have been easier for me if everyone had talked in
> > medical terms--grin!
> >
> >
> >
> > Rose Combs
> > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
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> > From: Rick Roderick [mailto:rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber
> > Wednesday, January 9, 2008>
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> > I wonder if any voice recognition software could be used to produce a
> > rough
> > draft for a volunteer to use in transcritpion.  I realize that someone
> > would
> > still have to listen to the session to figure out who was talking.
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