[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books in French?
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:32:18 -0500
Hi Lori and everyone!
If there is a French-speaking synthesizer on the system and it is used
while reading something in French, it should work well. Any
English-speaking synth would be useless, because it would be using English
pronunciation rules.
Debby
At 10:23 AM 3/31/2011, Lori Castner wrote
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Hi, Ellen,
I recently made a fairly sustained effort to find accessible books in
French. I searched through the Library of Congress NLS website and found
a couple.
A magazine in French can be downloaded from BARD.
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic has the largest collection of books
in French.
I'm going to look at the Bookshare books myself, but wonder how well the
language works with synthesized speech.
Lori C.
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From: <mailto:starry10286@xxxxxxxxx>Ellen Bartlett
To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:40 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books in French?
Hi group,
This question might be more for Carrie or Scott, but I'll throw it out
and see what I get. The head of the Disabled Student Services office at
my alma mater just sent me a message asking me about the availability of
accessible format books in French. I really had no idea, but mentioned
Bookshare, as well as Project Gutenberg. At least the latter would most
likely have the classics. So, I guess my question is, do we have books in
French in our collection? If so, how many?
Thanks,
Ellen
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