[nabs-l] Learning Ally new prices

Thu Aug 11 01:44:46 UTC 2011

Marsha,
Yes that would make it hard to hear synthetic speech. I have a slight 
auditory processing deficit. Its my experience that hearing male synthesized 
voices is clearer than the girl speech. Also Openbook has the human sounding 
sappy phy voices which are pretty good.
Still I relied on RFB  and readers as my primary study tool in school 
because its easier to understand human speech. And as we discussed in other 
threads, a reader can skim for you and look up material in the index. I 
tried looking up in electronic text files, but its not the same. Half the 
time, I did not find what I needed since I was looking in the wrong chapter.

So use Learning Ally since it helps you. If you give them a few months 
notice, they can record a book for you. They will send you installments of 
your book as they progress.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Marsha Drenth
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Learning Ally new prices

I have a hearing impairment, even just listening to the stream reading
pleasure reading books these days is harder to hear than it use to be. Well
glad I am not the only one.

marsha

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Marsha,
Another person who can not understand the stream speech.
Ah I am not alone then! Actually I can understand most of it, but its hard
to understand and I have to hear it slowly to understand it.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Marsha Drenth
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:00 AM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Learning Ally new prices

I think I heard of Learning Allie loosing its funding some time around
convention, but did not much think about it. So if now people want to use
the books, we must pay. What happens to those of us who have been
grandfathered in since the beginning of time?

At least because I am a student I get BKS for free of charge. I don't use
BKS books all that much, because when put on my stream to read audibly I
can't understand the speech. So thus why I like the Learning Allie books.

Marsha

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