[blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS

Thu Jan 9 14:22:01 UTC 2020

Thank you for your considered and thoughtful responses, everyone.

Derek, your pointers are very helpful, especially the one on building
prompts for voice modulation into the text. I normally keep JAWS at
around 65-70% while I am reading. When I tried reading content out
verbatim while listening to JAWS, I had to slow it down very
significantly, almost to one-third of its normal speed. I thought I
sounded quite fluent still, though.

Maura,

Memorization has been my strategy thus far. However, as you note, its
success is inversely proportional to the length of the speech or text.
I have also tried using keywords, but there are times when you do have
to say the words exactly as they are, either for accuracy or to
produce the desired rhetorical effect.

Best,
Rahul

On 09/01/2020, Maura Kutnyak <maurakutnyak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Rahul,
>
> I have found that the most seamless speeches come from having memorize the
> material. Typically I give a speech as many times as possible before hand at
> home, in the shower, walking down the street, every context I can think of,
> so that I am extremely familiar with the structure and content. This also
> allows for some flexibility because you are able to present the information
> in a variety of ways having practiced and experienced a variety of
> iterations. of course, memorization Becomes more and more fallible in
> proportion to the length of the speech you are giving.
>
> Have you ever tried using a simple outline based on the material that you
> were presenting? Basically a series of keywords arranged in the vertically
> down the page? Similar to what Dr. Harper does, by the way I will absolutely
> try that technique out, but just far fewer words in order to prompt  memory.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Maura Kutnyak  MPA.
> 716-563-9882
>
>> On Jan 9, 2020, at 7:47 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dr. Harpour,
>>
>> This is excellent, thank you for sharing your approach. I have been
>> thinking of adopting the same approach. I have some follow-ups for
>> you:
>>
>> First, when reading text aloud in this fashion, do you speak
>> organically as you listen, or do you listen, commit to memory what you
>> have heard and speak it out loud in a seamless fashion?
>>
>> Second, at what speed rate do you keep JAWS when getting it to read
>> aloud the text?
>>
>> Third, do you feel that you are able to sound natural and maintain the
>> desired tone while doing this? One difficulty I foresee with doing it
>> is sounding disjointed and unnatural while speaking. Also, I am
>> wondering if it is possible to tonally emphasize some specific words
>> or phrases when adopting this strategy.
>>
>> On the whole, it certainly does sound like a viable solution. Thank
>> you, again, for sharing it.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rahul
>>
>>> On 09/01/2020, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I am not sure I do it fantastically, but what I do is have a bite size
>>> amount of text on each line.  I then arrow down each line as the line
>>> above
>>> is finishing.  I have my screen reader speaking at slightly faster than
>>> I
>>> am.
>>> Here is part of a speech I gave recently at the a ILO workshop.
>>>
>>> We are up here on a small platform but we have a big message
>>> Thank you Frances
>>> Today I want to focus my paper on
>>> Workers with Disabilities Working in the Global Gig Economy
>>> This project forms    part of a wider collaborative work between myself
>>> and
>>> Professor Peter Blanck   Professor Blanck chairs  the Burton Blatt
>>> Institute
>>> Syracuse Universitywhere I am also an international distinguished fellow
>>> I am going to start my presentation by analysing
>>> how technology and universal design
>>> is enabling workers with disabilities to participate in the global gig
>>> economy
>>> Second
>>> I will show how this new market is creating
>>> new policy and regulatory opportunities
>>> to enable persons with disabilities to become
>>> workers with disabilities
>>> we have heard in other sessions how technology can be used as an enabler
>>> Universal Design can guide the
>>> design of environments
>>> processes
>>> policies
>>> technologies and tools
>>> to facilitate the inclusion of all people in society
>>> Universal design however can do more than this
>>> Universal design can create new work opportunities
>>> Universal design can Create new opportunities  for economic advancement
>>> Universal design can provide people with disabilities
>>> who have been denied their right to work access
>>> to work
>>> it can make persons with disabilities into workers with disabilities
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Paul Harpur
>>> BBus (HRm), LLB (Hons) LLM, PhD, solicitor of the High Court of
>>> Australia
>>> (non-practicing)
>>> Fulbright Future Scholar/International Distinguished Fellow, Burton
>>> Blatt
>>> Institute, SU, New York/Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on
>>> Disabilities.
>>> Associate Professor
>>> The University of Queensland Law School
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul
>>> Bajaj
>>> via BlindLaw
>>> Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2020 7:42 PM
>>> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
>>> Cc: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [blindLaw] Reading text aloud verbatim while listening to JAWS
>>>
>>> Hi, all,
>>>
>>> Are any of you here able to do this in a natural-sounding and seamless
>>> way?
>>> If so, how? One solution is Braille. However, I started learning Braille
>>> as
>>> an adult a couple of years ago and still have a long way to go to get to
>>> a
>>> point where I might be able to deploy it in this context. So I’d really
>>> like
>>> to learn how to do this with JAWS on a war footing.
>>>
>>> Most blind people I know cannot do this. But some can which suggests to
>>> me
>>> that it is a learnable skill.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Rahul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> Rahul Bajaj
>> Candidate for the MPhil in Law
>> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
>> University of Oxford
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Rahul Bajaj
Candidate for the MPhil in Law
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
University of Oxford