[bookshare-discuss] Re: about the optacan
- From: "Stephan, William S NWK" <william.s.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:56:16 -0600
Well Kellie, if I hadn't have been there myself, I'd never have believed
somebody could read like that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kellie Hartmann [mailto:hart0421@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:28 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: about the optacan
Wow! An auditory Opticon! I'm sure I could never have mastered anything like
that. But I have one friend who probably could--and not only that but he's
one of the few people I know who lost all of his vision in infancy but can
visualize very complex objects. I think a person would almost have to be
audio-visually synesthetic to use such a device because even if you had
perfect pitch, characters would probably almost always be slightly different
so you couldn't just memorize a particular chord for each letter. This might
give rise to a crazy new art form--drawing or writing something such that the
result created an Opticon symphony!
Kellie
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