[optacon-l] Re: creating an audio demo for ACB Radio and other internetradio stations
- From: JBliss Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:03:34 -0800
Dear Jerry,
Great to hear what you've been doing with your Optacon. I remember the first
student I had who wanted to read all sorts of gauges for a radio station, I
think it was, and we went to a local college radio station and he had a ball.
Judy Adams
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: creating an audio demo for ACB Radio and other
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From: gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:07:38 -0500
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I, too, have scanned circuit diagrams. I've used my Optacon for several
>years to read W-2 and 1099 forms in doing my family's taxes (it's that
>time again). I've also used it to read analog meters on my tape deck and
>even to examine the needle on the water pressure meter for our baseboard
>hot water heating system to insure proper pressure. Any of this worth
>adding to the testimonials? Of course, it's also handy for perusing the
>on-screen programming for the VCR and for examining the computer screen
>when speech goes belly-up.
>Cheers,
>Jerry
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>Hey, I think the testimonial thing is a good idea, as long as we don't put
>too
>much of that canned applause in like those infomercials. Of course, we
>could
>on those amazing things have people going oooh, aaaah.
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>Seriously, I think a testimonial about different things, particularly
>unique
>things, that can be done with the Optacon might spur some interest in
>maybe
>having a successor. I'm thinking about things like reading charts,
>diagrams,
>writing on bottles and cans, as well as reading hand-printed items. Oh,
>then
>of course, there are lots of other things such as the ability to quickly
>look
>something upk, the ability to sign a document independently, etc.
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>I'd be happy to send a snippet about using it to read org charts and
>circuit
>diagrams, if you decide you want to go in that direction.
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>Steve
>Lansing, Mi
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>From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:26 PM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: creating an audio demo for ACB Radio and other
>internet radio stations
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>Steve, Chase and list,
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>Thanks for all the contact info you're providing. I'm keeping all those
>messages. I'm thinking about how to present the optacon in such a way that
>people who have never heard of it can see how special it is; with all my
>planning, though, I usually just dive in and end up disregarding any plans
>I
>make. I'm wondering, since this list is part of this, if some folks should
>review what I put together before I send it out; or maybe some of you can
>submit brief testimonials in audio format, maybe fifteen or thirty
>seconds,
>so that people can hear other voices besides mine. I can easily splice
>them
>in. I use Studio Recorder from American Printing House for my audio work,
>and I'm nowhere as professional as those who have sound studios, but I do
>what I can.
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>Any thoughts are most welcome; I'd kind of like to keep this discussion on
>the list, if the moderator doesn't mind, so we can all be part of it.
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>Mary
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