[musictlk] San Fransisco Opera now has accessible supertitles!

[Leslie Hamric]

Is this the Brandon who won a scholarship at the NFB national convention last year in 2012? If so, let me an contact you off list? Thanks.
Leslie

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> On Oct 25, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have been working with San Fransisco Opera to get accessible super titles for about 2 years now and I just got back from seeing the opera and using their brand new super title reading device!
> You go to the opera house and at the cote check you ask for the accessible super title device. They will take your ID and give you a little device with headphones plugged into it. They have the skull bone headphones, so they rest on your cheekbones. I didn't like those, so I just plugged in my own headphones.
> I had the volume about a 20th of a turn from being off and it was still a little lowd, so if you are hard of hearing, you will have no problem hearing the accessible subtitles!
> They have actually become rather popular, so they have lots of them if a group of people wanted them. The voice is not bad to listen to either. It is a mail voice and may be the man tts from Voice Over.
> This makes going to the Opera so nice, so if you have been to the Opera before and didn't like it, it is a totally different ball game with the super titles!
> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> 
> 
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