Thanks Sieghard for posting that. I thought I had already done that, but looking back, it hadn’t sent. The Eclipse Soundscapes app is quite impressive and they plan to do other eclipses and possibly other astronomical events in the future. IN th app, there is a list of upcoming events. There are lots of partial eclipse coming up as well as a few more total eclipses around the world.
Richard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 7:13 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Eclipse Soundscapes app, was: Audio Description of the total eclipse There is also an app called “Eclipse Soundscapes” which was developed primarily for blind/visually impaired users. Here is an article from CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/technology-allows-visually-impaired-blind-to-experience-solar-eclipse-1.4250318 The app store link for Eclipse Soundscapes is as follows, description of the app follows the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8 Description: The Eclipse Soundscapes Project app is specially designed so that people who are blind and visually impaired can share in the awe and wonder of astronomical events in real time with their sighted peers. The app is a joint effort between The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), NASA’s Heliophysics Education Consortium (HEC), the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), and the National Park Service (NPS). Features include an interactive “Rumble map”; audio descriptions of key features of the eclipse; a play-by-play description of the total solar eclipse as it is happening in the user’s area; and a countdown clock to the next upcoming eclipse. The “Rumble Map” gives the user the sensation of “feeling” the Sun during an eclipse. Our technology translates images of key eclipse features into a series of unique frequency modulated tones that map out variations in light and dark as the user explores the image with their fingertips. These tones are specially designed to make the user’s mobile device shake, or rumble, in response to the changes. After the eclipse, the Eclipse Soundscapes app will provide access to a database of soundscape recordings from U.S. National Parks and other urban and rural locations so that users can experience how eclipses change the behavior of different species, including humans. During the next five years, the app will expand to include other eclipses and astronomical objects of interest giving people who are blind and visually impaired – and everyone else – a new way to engage with the universe around them. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 9:54 AM To: 'ViPone list (viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>)' <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Audio Description of the total eclipse I learned of this from Joel Henderson from Oregon Talking Books. Audio Description to Allow the Blind To “See” the Total Eclipse For Immediate Release Contact: Joel Snyder, Director, Audio Description Project (202) 467-5083 Audio Description to Allow the Blind To “See” the Total Eclipse WASHINGTON, August 10, 2017 - The Audio Description Project, an initiative of the American Council of the Blind (ACB), along with the Mid-Tennessee Council of the Blind, the Tennessee School for the Blind and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, announces an opportunity for blind people world-wide to experience the upcoming total eclipse of the sun. On Monday afternoon, August 21, at exactly 1:27 p.m. (CDT), the Sun above Nashville, TN will disappear from view. The sky will go completely dark. But through the use of succinct, imaginative and vivid language–audio description–the event will be accessible to the millions of people who are blind or have low vision, or anyone who wishes to experience a verbal version of the visual. Between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm (CDT) on August 21, Dr. Joel Snyder will host “A Total Eclipse—Audio Described!” on ACB Radio. Snyder, the director of ACB’s Audio Description Project, will present an hour of songs (“Ain’t Got No Sunshine,” “Here Comes The Sun,” “Blinded by the Light,” “When The Sun Goes Down,” etc.) interviews and special guests—with the main event being described live from the Tennessee School for the Blind between 1:15 pm and 1:45 pm (CDT). Trained audio describer, Nashville-based Julia Cawthon will describe the eclipse as it happens and provide a vivid “translation” of the visual event into words for the benefit of anyone who tunes in. “Audio Description uses the spoken word to provide access to visual images that would otherwise not be accessible to people who are blind or have low vision,” stated Kim Charlson, president of the American Council of the Blind. "Audio describers help make so many aspects of our culture accessible. 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