[bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:17:35 -0600
I have to agree with Judy. As a matter of fact, Nichole would never listen
to a synthetic voice until the acapella voices that are now available on her
device. I don't know anyone who prefers TTS over audio books and most are
more than willing to pay for the alternative. The only people who learn to
accept TTS are those who need a wider range of books or budget constraints
make the other alternative unaffordable. Then there are people with auditory
processing disorders who do not even acknowledge TTS as speech as it is
processed slightly differently in the brain.
In my opinion we need to constantly be exploring and expanding all mediums
all of text accessibility and in a cooperative effort like Bookshare, I
think that everyone comes out winners. I know that even though I have a
membership now I will probably almost exclusively be a volunteer due to time
constraints, but being a member will allow me to check how certain things
are handled in the final process or view how proofreaders have handled my
scans.
Interesting dialogue everyone...
Valerie
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> I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital
> rights management.
>
<snip>
> I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will
> willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by
> listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford
> expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very
> limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare
> downloads using either DAISY or Text Aloud has become an acquired
> taste, one I've become used to and actually very much enjoy.
>
> If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books
> read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be
> flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a
> book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a
> professional reader and studio to produce the master for each and
> every book that becomes an audible book.
>
> I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver
> one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of
> ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it.
>
> Just my opinion. Grin.
>
> Judy s.
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