[optacon-l] Re: creating an audio demo for ACB Radio and other internetradio stations
- From: gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:01:49 -0500
I can just imagine: "Bzzzzzzzzzz." My sister used to say she couldn't
sleep at night when I'd be up looking at something and the sound of that
bee buzzing away would conduct through the wall between our bedrooms.
Somebody mentioned looking at guitar fingerings, and that reminded me of
looking at the fingering chart for my recorder (the flute, that is). I
could explore each chart item for each note and see which holes were
covered and which uncovered for each note. They even had alternative
fingerings which were given in lower contrast which could be easily
distinguished from the main fingerings, especially if I played with the
Threshold control.
Cheers,
Jerry
PS: My instructor was Sandy Poorman who must have gone out to California
in the mid-seventies and then come back to Illinois (where I lived at the
time) armed to teach blind kids with an interest in learning the Optacon.
JBliss Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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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From: gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:07:38 -0500
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>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
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>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>
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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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