Egypt
Just click on the "Listen Now" icon at the head of each post to listen to it.
The voice used is male and American whereas I am female and English, but that scarcely seems to matter! This seems like an excellent solution and I hope that people find it useful. The only serious downside is that I only post experts from articles so if you want to gain access to the entire article you will still need to click the link to go to the source, which is very unlikely to have an audio option. Still, rather better than nothing!
So far Odiogo seems to be doing a great job of dealing with Egyptian and other difficult names. I was worried about how it would handle block quotes but it picks them up, announcing opening and closing quotes to let you know which material is quoted and which isn't. For anyone planning to use the audio alternative instead of reading the text it will be helpful to have a good grasp of how I format the content on the blog in order to listen out for the title, the source website, any comments and the block quote etc.
I hope that we will be able to add something for Egyptological eventually.
If you try it, or pass it on to someone visually impaired to try, please can you let me know how you or they get on with it? I would be most grateful for any feedback. andie [at] oddthing . co. uk.
- Curator’s Diary: Ancient Egypt For The Visually Impaired
Egypt at the Manchester Museum On Thursday I met with a group of around 30 visitors from Henshaws, a charity that provides support for blind and visually impaired people. I confess to a little trepidation at the task of describing in sufficient...
- Andrea Bocelli In Egypt
Yallabina Bibliotheca Alexandrina is hosting a charity concert featuring the legendary opera singer Andrea Bocelli on the 11th of October 2008 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Great Hall. The concert is held under the auspices of her Excellency Mrs. Suzanne...
- Tactile Gallery, Louvre
Egypt Daily Star News A photograph of a visually impaired man, with his guide dog, exploring a replica of the serekh of Djet in the Louvre's Tactile Gallery: Didier Roule, with his dog "Panisse," touches a replica of ancient Egypt's Snake King...
- Review: The Egyptologist Audio Book
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/12/22/183559.php "The Egyptologist is chock full of clues and experienced mystery readers will pick up on them readily and be perfectly correct in his or her assumptions. That fact does not make is book any less enjoyable....
- Interview Re Grand Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/narh8 (marketplace.publicradio.org) web pagehttp://tinyurl.com/qpbnw (publicradio.org) audio file - requires RealPlayerA short interview with Yasser Mansour, the Chief Architect for the new museum. "A lone cement truck coughs up sand...
Egypt
Egyptology News goes audio!
You can now listen to Egyptology News. I am very interested in making online content available for the visually impaired so I have added an Odiogo feed to Egyptology News. Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for pointing me at Odiogo.
Just click on the "Listen Now" icon at the head of each post to listen to it.
The voice used is male and American whereas I am female and English, but that scarcely seems to matter! This seems like an excellent solution and I hope that people find it useful. The only serious downside is that I only post experts from articles so if you want to gain access to the entire article you will still need to click the link to go to the source, which is very unlikely to have an audio option. Still, rather better than nothing!So far Odiogo seems to be doing a great job of dealing with Egyptian and other difficult names. I was worried about how it would handle block quotes but it picks them up, announcing opening and closing quotes to let you know which material is quoted and which isn't. For anyone planning to use the audio alternative instead of reading the text it will be helpful to have a good grasp of how I format the content on the blog in order to listen out for the title, the source website, any comments and the block quote etc.
I hope that we will be able to add something for Egyptological eventually.
If you try it, or pass it on to someone visually impaired to try, please can you let me know how you or they get on with it? I would be most grateful for any feedback. andie [at] oddthing . co. uk.
- Curator’s Diary: Ancient Egypt For The Visually Impaired
Egypt at the Manchester Museum On Thursday I met with a group of around 30 visitors from Henshaws, a charity that provides support for blind and visually impaired people. I confess to a little trepidation at the task of describing in sufficient...
- Andrea Bocelli In Egypt
Yallabina Bibliotheca Alexandrina is hosting a charity concert featuring the legendary opera singer Andrea Bocelli on the 11th of October 2008 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Great Hall. The concert is held under the auspices of her Excellency Mrs. Suzanne...
- Tactile Gallery, Louvre
Egypt Daily Star News A photograph of a visually impaired man, with his guide dog, exploring a replica of the serekh of Djet in the Louvre's Tactile Gallery: Didier Roule, with his dog "Panisse," touches a replica of ancient Egypt's Snake King...
- Review: The Egyptologist Audio Book
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/12/22/183559.php "The Egyptologist is chock full of clues and experienced mystery readers will pick up on them readily and be perfectly correct in his or her assumptions. That fact does not make is book any less enjoyable....
- Interview Re Grand Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/narh8 (marketplace.publicradio.org) web pagehttp://tinyurl.com/qpbnw (publicradio.org) audio file - requires RealPlayerA short interview with Yasser Mansour, the Chief Architect for the new museum. "A lone cement truck coughs up sand...