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Claude Almansi

Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle | Technology | guardi... - 0 views

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    But while we were all running our mouths about the plausibility of the singularity emerging from Amazon's text-to-speech R&D, a much juicier issue was escaping our notice: it is technically possible for Amazon to switch off the text-to-speech feature for some or all books. That's a hell of a thing, isn't it? Now that Amazon has agreed with the Authors Guild that text-to-speech will only be switched on for authors who sign a contract permitting it, we should all be goggling in amazement at the idea that this can be accomplished. Neither of these should inspire confidence in the Kindle as a long-term device. Dropping $359 (£251) on a device whose features are subject to the outcomes of ongoing negotiations to which you are not a party is, frankly, nuts.
Claude Almansi

Knowledge Ecology Notes » Growing Opposition to the Authors' Guild Request to... - 0 views

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    And here is a powerful statement from Carrie Russel, Director Program on Public Access to Information, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy "It is hard to know what is worse - Amazon cowtowing to the Authors Guild's request to remove the text to speech function or the Authors Guild seeking to squeeze every penny they can from the visually impaired who are already paying for the Kindle books. Amazon did not have to cave - there was no license they had agreed to with the Authors Guild to remove the speech function that would have expanded rights to private reading. Shame on the Authors Guild for being greedy and downright mean to the visually impaired."
Claude Almansi

Allow Everyone Access to E-books - Reading Rights Coalition's petition - 0 views

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    Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2. The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd
Claude Almansi

Open Letter to Authors | Reading Rights - Mar 29 09 - 0 views

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    Sadly, the Authors Guild does not support equal access for us. The Guild has told us that to read your books with text-to-speech we must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove our disabilities -- or pay extra. The Guild's position is outrageous and discriminates against the millions of people with print disabilities who are eager to be your readers and customers.
Claude Almansi

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

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    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?
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    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

DAISY: National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amaz... - 0 views

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    The blind and other readers have the right for books to be presented to us in the format that is most useful to us, and we are not violating copyright law as long as we use readers, either human or machine, for private rather than public listening. The key point is that reading aloud in private is the same whether done by a person or a machine, and reading aloud in private is never an infringement of copyright. Amazon has taken a step in the right direction by including text-to-speech technology for reading e-books aloud on its new Kindle 2". More details are available on the Forbes website.
Claude Almansi

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

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    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
Claude Almansi

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

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    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

Amara Support Center : How do I download subtitles from Amara and upload them to my You... - 0 views

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      Why only YouTube? subs made with Amara can be added to videos on other platforms too.
  • At present, YouTube uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for English videos and transcripts, with plans to roll out this service for other languages
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      Obsolete: YT has already added Japanese and Spanish, at least.
  • Click the down-facing arrow that is to the right of the Edit button.  
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      The screenshot is obsolete.
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