Skip to main content

Home/ Multimedia Accessibility/ Group items tagged audio

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Claude Almansi

Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores... with subtitles | Amara - 0 views

    • Claude Almansi
       
      Bottom English track http://www.amara.org/en/videos/h7pJFOv0Cwcc/en/574301/ = WSJ transcript, autotimed into captions by YT
    • Claude Almansi
       
      Top English track http://www.amara.org/en/videos/h7pJFOv0Cwcc/en/574300/ = YouTube's autocaptions
  •  
    "This is the captured audio of Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores Islands Hard http://live.wsj.com/#!B1BBA4F8-04F3-4039-9623-38B4D64B0703 on a black background. Just an experiment to compare YT's autocaptions with autotranscript given in http://live.wsj.com" 2 sets of English subs; in their Revision 0 status: YT autocaptions and WSJ transcript autotimed into captions via YT.
Claude Almansi

NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie) - 0 views

  •  
    ...The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two such tools, version 1.0 and 2.01 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media. ...
Claude Almansi

Op-Ed Contributor - The Kindle Swindle? - NYTimes.com Roy Blount Jr Authors' Guild Feb ... - 0 views

  •  
    Serves readers, pays writers: so far, so good. But there's another thing about Kindle 2 - its heavily marketed text-to-speech function. Kindle 2 can read books aloud. And Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights.
Claude Almansi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society: The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1) [Kindle... - 0 views

  •  
    This isn't a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!) years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it's a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! More on that in another essay. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author's rights vs. the right to access. Since these are both generally good from society's standpoint, how do you handle the conflict between them?
Claude Almansi

The Authors Guild - 2/25/09 - Kindle 2 Audio: How Does It Sound? - 0 views

  •  
    Listening to the examples demonstrates that nobody non-blind and non-masochistic would use the Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature. And as blind people can't use the Kindle 2, what is the point of that feature - and of the Authors' Guild ruckus about it?
  •  
    February 25, 2009. Text-to-speech (TTS) programs have been in use for a number of years, and they're improving. As Roy Blount says in an op-ed in today's New York Times, Kindle 2's TTS isn't Jim Dale reading "Harry Potter," but it's listenable. There's no need to take our word for it; have a listen to the sample below.
Claude Almansi

NFB - National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amazo... - 0 views

  •  
    Same as in Forbes' but on the NFB site with contact info
Claude Almansi

Authors“ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud - Boing Boing - Cory Docto... - 0 views

  •  
    Time and again, the Author's Guild has shown itself to be the epitome of a venal special interest group, the kind of grasping, foolish posturers that make the public cynically assume that the profession it represents is a racket, not a trade. This is, after all, the same gang of weirdos who opposed the used book trade going online. I think there's plenty not to like about the Kindle -- the DRM, the proprietary file format, both imposed on authors and publishers even if they don't want it -- and about Amazon's real audiobook section, Audible (the DRM -- again, imposed on authors and publishers even if they'd prefer not to use it). But if there's one thing Amazon has demonstrated, it's that it plans on selling several bazillion metric tons of audiobooks. They control something like 90 percent of the market. To accuse them of setting out to destroy it just doesn't pass the giggle-test.
Claude Almansi

[A2k] Kindle 2 protest April 7 NYC 12 to 2pm (Manon Ress, Mar 20 09) - 0 views

  •  
    A coalition of organizations representing people who cannot read print will protest the removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 at the Authors Guild headquarters in NY City at 31 East 32nd Street on April 7, 2009, 12 to 2:00 p.m. Join us there! Manon
1 - 8 of 8
Showing 20 items per page