[NABS-L] Listening to text with JAWS and verbally reproducing it simultaneously: 3 specific questions

[Nicolas Spohn]

I also have the same problem so I’m interested to hear what other people have to say. people say if you have a braille display and you know how to read braille then that could help. 

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> On Jan 15, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Rahul Bajaj via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have the following questions:
> 
> First, I normally listen to JAWS at 65%. Even after slowing it down,
> if I try to listen to the text line-by-line, I find that by the time I
> am done reading and have to speak, I am only able to retain 40-50% of
> what I have heard. So I end up losing some content.
> On the other hand, if I listen to JAWS one word at a time, I find that
> I end up being much too slow, such that my speech sounds disjointed
> and halting.
> 
> Second, I am wondering how your experience differs between verbally
> reproducing new content [i.e. material you have never read before]
> versus content you are already familiar with.
> Put simply, would it pay to familiarize oneself with the content to be
> reproduced beforehand?
> 
> Third and lastly, can you suggest some pointers for building up one's
> capacity, to be able to get better at doing this i.e. listening to
> JAWS and speaking out what it is reading at the same time?
> 
> 
> Best,
> Rahul
> -- 
> --
> Rahul Bajaj
> Judicial Law Clerk to Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Supreme Court of India
> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
> University of Oxford
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --
> Rahul Bajaj
> Judicial Law Clerk to Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Supreme Court of India
> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
> University of Oxford
> 
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