[bksvol-discuss] Braille books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
That's very interesting, Shelley. Thank you for the
info.
Cindy
--- juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The answer is, that NLS does do most to all of their
> Braille by hand.
>
> The ladies here at the Cleveland Sight Center, don't
> even scan and OCR their
> stuff when they translate textbooks for local
> schools, they type them by
> hand. NLS actually doesn't do any of the Braille
> themselves, it is done by
> Braille transcribers working around the U.S. even
> Duxbury and Monty, and
> Mega Dots do a lot of mistakes that a good
> proofreader goes in and finds
> them and sorts them out. Look at National Braille
> Press, they use "jiffy
> Braille" which means no proof reading when they make
> the zinc plates to
> publish the books which is why the books are cheap.
> And yes NBP
> acknowledges that their books have errors, and I
> have found several, not
> glaring, but certainly not stuff that would pass
> muster with a NLS
> proofreader.
>
> To get truly great formatted Braille, you do have to
> read it, and know what
> the rules are. Which is my friend the reason NLS
> only adds about one
> hundred Braille titles a year.
>
> The same time and attention is put into their
> recorded books and their
> narrators get paid by the "good recorded minute".
> They have to research
> pronunciations, preview the book several times to
> make sure of pauses and
> the rest and even explore the pronunciations of the
> particular languages
> that are used in certain books.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
> and Judson, guiding golden
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:46 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Em-dashes
>
>
> Thanks, Jana. But that brings up a question: If
> NLS can put out such good
> Braille, why can't Bookshare do what they do.
> Surely, they don't do it by
> hand, do they? Or do they? If they use software to
> get such nearly perfect
> translation, why can't Bookshare just use that
> instead of all this talk
> about why the translator can't do m dashes
> correctly? How does NLS do their
> translation? Does anyone here know the answer?
> Maybe some proprietary
> government-only software that noone else can have
> access to?
>
> Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jana Jackson
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:32 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Em-dashes
>
>
> Hi, Everyone! Here is a response from Jim
> Fruchterman regarding the
> question of em-dashes. Sorry, I just realized that
> I forgot to send it over
> last night. <Smile>
>
> Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Fruchterman
> To: Jana Jackson ; Gustavo Galindo
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:38 PM
> Subject: RE: Em-dashes
>
>
> Thanks, Jana. I took a look at the digest from
> Saturday, and I assume the
> answer is that we don't want to move away from the
> way the book was printed:
> we have made a commitment to publishers and authors
> to work to bring the
> scanned texts closer to the original. If we have a
> preference from Braille
> readers to change our Duxbury output, I'd rather
> keep the focus on that.
>
>
>
> Jim Fruchterman
>
> jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
>
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