[stylist] Reading material out loud

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

I've read out loud repeating what I hear JAWS speak, but it's not the
easiest thing. It depends on how long something is, and the situation.
I'll slow JAWS down a bit, but not much since I don't want to speak so
slow, or with to long of pauses, that it makes listening to me
distracting. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.

My chapter now distributes secretary minutes via email before meetings,
but when I was first secretary, we still had to read minutes out loud
during meetings. I just repeated what JAWS said. It worked pretty well,
but I was also reading what I'd written, and meeting records are usually
not the same as a piece of writing like essays or short stories.

In my classes, if we worked on short exercises like rewriting a sentence
or writing a para on something or creating character lists, I'd read
independently what I wrote down with JAWS. When workshopping my
manuscripts, we usually read a para or two up to a page or two before
peers gave their feedback. Depending on how busy I was, I'd either
memorize an excerpt so I could do it out loud with Braille notes just in
case, or I'd ask a friend in class to read for me.

Either way, it worked.

With my Netbook laptop, to read sentence-to-sentence, it's the alt key
and up or down arrow. Of course, word-to-word is the insert and left or
right arrow.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:23:13 -0400
From: Brenda <bjnite at windstream.net>
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Hi Bridgit

You sound like a very creative person.  That is neat how you apply your 
acting skills to present your creative writing.

Thank you for the tips for when I find a group to join.  Actually I have

one friend who has the ability to read out loud while reading the 
material herself with Jaws.  I don't know how she does it, but she 
sounds just like she is reading.  I do have a laptop so when I do get 
involved in workshops or groups, I can take my laptop to be ready in 
case others are using a thumb drive.

I appreciate you taking the time to give me these valuable tips.

Brenda

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:37:57 -0400
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Hi,
I have attempted to read aloud with JAWS. To do it, I slow JAWS way down
and let it read a few words, then repeat after it. I also control it, by
using the sentence reading keys, Alt + Down Arrow for next sentence and
Alt + Up Arrow for previous sentence. Right now, I forget the laptop
equivalent for read current sentence, if there is one. The desktop key
for that is Alt + NumPad 5.

Jim