[Tall-Corn] Smart Speaker tip for Talking Books Skill

[bray at nfbi.org]

Below is something of interest to anyone who has an Alexa speaker
and is a BARD user. Thanks to those who forwarded it to me.

 

Bob Ray

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I got this from Don Olson and NLS. If you have the Talking Books
Skill then you may find this of interest.

Merv

 

Hello everyone,

 

Welcome to the first official edition of the NLS smart speaker tip
of the week. For the next few  months, NLS will be sending a tip
about using My Talking Books.

 

I realize I sent an email to this list last week about browsing
and searching. I feel it's worth sending more information about
this, especially since quite a few people have joined the list
since last Friday.

 

Before getting started, many of us know there are a number of wake
words we can use to get the attention of our smart speaker. In
this post, we're going to call her "Lady A" in order to make sure
that people using screen reading software will not unintentionally
activate their speaker.

 

This week's tip  is specifically about searching the BARD
collection on My Talking Books.

 

You can search for books by title, author, subject, series,
annotation, book number, genre or by narrator. The following list
contains examples of the various search types.

Say, "Lady A, books titled Little Women"

Say, "Lady A, search for books by Tom Clancy"

Say, "Lady A, find books about war"

Say, "Lady A, find books about music genre Jazz"  

Say, "Lady A, read books with number DB12345"

 

Refining a Book Search:

When searching for a book, it is possible to add further details
to help refine the search. Once you have made your original
search, for example, "Find books by Dr. Seuss", and your Smart
Speaker has returned a list of results, you may expand on the
query. Say, "About fish." Remember, you may interrupt your smart
speaker at any time. You do not need to wait until it finishes
speaking. If the speaker is, for example, listing books by Dr.
Seuss, and you know you want books about fish, you may interrupt
by saying "Lady A, About fish".

 

One last thing to consider is searching by the title and author.
For example, say, "Lady A, books titled A Christmas Carol by
Charles Dickens". This will help narrow your search My Talking
Books will give you a much shorter list of titles to choose from
than if you simply search by the book title.

 

There are often multiple ways to perform each function on My
Talking Books. For a more comprehensive list of commands to
perform a search, we recommend exploring the following resources:

 

Welcome to My Talking Books on Smart Speaker - National Library
Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of
Congress (loc.gov)
<https://www.loc.gov/nls/how-to-enroll/sign-up-for-bard-and-bard-m
obile/welcome-to-my-talking-books/> 

My Talking Books Skill User Guide - National Library Service for
the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
<https://www.loc.gov/nls/how-to-enroll/sign-up-for-bard-and-bard-m
obile/my-talking-books-user-guide/> 

My Talking Books Command List - National Library Service for the
Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
<https://www.loc.gov/nls/how-to-enroll/sign-up-for-bard-and-bard-m
obile/my-talking-books-command-list/> 

 

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