[Nfbc-info] San Fransisco Opera now has accessible supertitles!

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

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,

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Brandon Keith Biggs