[Dtb-talk] A question about production practice

[Burke, Dan (DSS)]

Greg,

I see no functional advantage in knowing the location of a former
cassette track ending/beginning unless, as Steve's question suggests, it
gave me some idea of what page and chapter I was at that point.  Even
so, in this digital age, I would be more likely to use the 5-minute jump
in my player to locate myself in relation to the total time of the
recording.

Dan


Dan Burke
Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator

Disability Services for Students
The University of Montana
Emma B. Lommasson Center 154
Missoula, MT 59812

406.243.4424
406.243.5330 FAX

www.umt.edu/disability


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:33 AM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] A question about production practice

Greg,

When you mark the beginnings of tape tracks, do you include any of the
corresponding announcements?  For example, is there an announcement upon

which page reading resumes or such?  When I hear NLS books proclaim that
"level 1 provides access to the beginning and the end of the book," it 
generally brings on a chuckle as that buys one little.  If you have no
other markings, the beginnings of tracks on older books might provide
some usefulness 
if they can be inserted without too much work.  If there is a page
announcement that is retained, then the beginning of tracks would be
particularly useful 
enough to keep.  If there is no associated announcement of any kind,
then I don't think the marks at the beginning of tracks would likely be
missed.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:05:56 +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:

>Hello;

>Here at Association for the Blind of Western Australia we have been
digitising tapes and making up digital talking books. In the case of
fiction we have 
been producing books with heading level one that correspond to the tape
side. We have been marking these as parts and providing navigation to
those 
original tape sides. We understand that chapter navigation is best and
we try to do that when we can but it is not possible in all cases to do
so.

>We are thinking of eliminating this kind of navigation as it has no
connection to the original text of the book. Rather than doing this we
would for fiction 
only provide the recording of the book at a single level one navigation
point. This would save us a fair bit of time in production.

>We would like your comments on this possible change.

>Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA
6100
>Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>Email: greg.kearney at guidedogswa.com.au
>Email: gkearney at gmail.com


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