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

[Sandra Gayer]

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On 1/15/21, Chris Nestrud via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Read word by word, the idea is you're building a mental buffer of a few
> words
> which should give you a chance to figure out the correct tone and pauses
> when speaking. You may need to increase your listening speed so you'll
> have enough words in your mental buffer. If you can't read word by word
> then reformat the text so that the lines are of an appropriate length.
>
> There was an NFB convention speech saved on the NFB website several
> years ago with someone who did something similar using a Victor Reader
> Stream. His delivery was quite good.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:25:04AM -0500, Nicolas Spohn via NABS-L wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > 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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