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

[Gene Kim]

Hey Rahul,

I definitely echo Chris. It's helpful for me if I split up what I'm trying
to read (sometimes after copy-pasting to a word doc) and splitting things
up phrase by phrase or sentence by sentence. I also find that being more
familiar with the content absolutely pays because I already have a good
idea of what it is I'm trying to say aloud, and JAWS just helps me fill in
the key words in the correct order (i.e. it becomes much easier to predict
what the next few words will be to expand the memory buffer). Aside from
deliberate/strategic practice (e.g. experimenting with different ways of
splitting, changing pacing/inflection to accommodate a potentially more
laid back read aloud, etc.), I think it will get easier over time.

Kindly,
Gene
--
Gene S-H Kim | B.S. Candidate, Symbolic Systems
Secretary | California Association of Blind Students



On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:09 AM 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
> >t > 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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