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----- Original Message ----- From: "Taraprakash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: [AI] news about talking books marathon reading session >>> Talking book effort marks 75 years >>> Marathon recording session is planned >>> >>> By Martha Elson >>> >>> Lou Harpenau was immersed in the world of the eastern Caribbean, >>> reading aloud in a recording studio about iguanas and hurricanes in >>> "The Ancestor's Tale," a book about evolution by Richard Dawkins. >>> >>> Harpenau, of the Jeffersontown area, was recording Dawkins' book at >>> the American Printing House for the Blind in Clifton this week. >>> Tomorrow, the long-time professional talking book narrator will join >>> about 40 others in a marathon volunteer session to record "Gulliver's >>> Travels," by Jonathan Swift. >>> >>> They'll read in 20-minute shifts from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate >>> the 75th anniversary of the National Library Service's Talking Book >>> Program for the blind and physically handicapped. In 1937, >>> "Gulliver's >>> Travels" became the first book the local printing house recorded for >>> the program. >>> >>> The public is invited to watch and listen to the narrators and tour >>> the Callahan Museum at the nearly 150-year-old printing house, 1839 >>> Frankfort Ave. Museum director Mike Hudson came up with the idea of >>> the marathon recording session. >>> >>> The printing house produces about 500,000 tapes of recorded books >>> each >>> year under contract with the National Library Service, which operates >>> a lending library for people who qualify under the auspices of the >>> Library of Congress. >>> >>> Among the other Gulliver narrators will be local broadcasting >>> professionals Milton Metz, Gary Roedemeier, Terry Meiners and Barry >>> Bernson, and theater performer Mitzi Friedlander. >>> >>> Popular narrators can be the equivalent of movie stars to talking >>> book >>> users, said Roberta Williams, the printing house's public relations >>> and special projects manager. >>> >>> Harpenau, a retired news director for WAVE Radio who began narrating >>> for the printing house in 1970, also has recorded the Merck Manual >>> medical guide -- which took more than 123 hours and is thought to be >>> the longest book ever recorded for the national program. >>> >>> "I read a lot of learned things," he said. "I wish I could say I >>> retained all" of it. Harpenau and the others work with a monitor, who >>> follows along in the book and listens to the narrators, checking for >>> mistakes. >>> >>> Down a hall marked with "Quiet Please" signs, long-time narrator John >>> Polk of Lyndon, who also will participate tomorrow, was recording >>> "The >>> First Mountain Man: Preacher," a Western by William W. Johnstone. >>> Polk, who was production director for WHAS Radio for 10 years, still >>> does freelance voice-overs, but said "this is the job I love the >>> most." >>> >>> Another of tomorrow's narrators will be Megan Burnett of Buechel, who >>> started reading about a year ago. An actress with the Pleiades >>> Theatre >>> Company, she also teaches drama at St. Raphael Catholic School in the >>> Upper Highlands. >>> >>> She said she had hoped to become a narrator when she received her >>> master's degree in fine arts from the University of Louisville in >>> 1991 >>> but was told she needed more voice training. In contrast to being on >>> stage, "It's a unique experience being alone with a book, reading it >>> aloud, with just you and a monitor," she said. "I call it swimming in >>> the book." >>> >>> Computers make the recording process faster and easier, but in the >>> early days the recordings were on 20-minute wax cylinders and >>> narrators had to start over if they made a mistake, said Steve >>> Mullins, studio director at the printing house. >>> >>> Mullins said narrators do extensive research before beginning to >>> record, looking up pronunciations, familiarizing themselves with the >>> text and perhaps planning when to present graphs and charts. >>> Narrators >>> may read for two hours at a stretch. >>> >>> "It takes a certain kind of person," he said. "It's a really skilled >>> job." >>> >>> Reporter Martha Elson can be reached at (502) 582-7061. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "zainab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:32 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Learning Braille in Pune. > > >> hello i am in pune u can call me i know some one >> my mob nom is +919822344562 >> zainab >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rishi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "accessindia" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 1:12 PM >> Subject: [AI] Learning Braille in Pune. >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> I'm in Pune( in Lonavala to be precise) and wanted to learn to read and >>> type braille. Can anyone let me know the institutes situated in Pune for >>> the same. 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