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		<title>Best Served Cold (&amp; Audible)</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/01/best-served-cold-audible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite new authors is Joe Abercrombie. A few year ago, he published The First Law trilogy, a dark fantasy series, followed recently by Best Served Cold, a novel set I&#8217;m the First Law world. I picked up the first nook in the trilogy a few years ago in paperback and was immediately hooked. I do not read many books in print (though lots in audio), so this was a big deal for me. As I wrote earlier, a while back, I contacted the author via his web site to suggest audio versions of his books. Abercrombie responded and followed up the request, but met with the usual red tape faced by authors. The decision to produce an audio version lies more with the publishers, though, but Abercrombie put in a request. A few months ago, I heard the audio version was en route. Just a few days ago, Best Served Cold, Abercrombie&#8217;s latest, arrived on Audible.com&#8217;s virtual shelves. Yeah! Now I can finish reading it. I have the Kindle edition, but have not gotten past the first few chapters. With the Kindle app on my iPod (set to the light-on-dark color scheme and to the giant font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Law Series Going Audible</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/07/first-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, author Joe Abercrombie announced that his new book, Best Served Cold will be released in the US on the Kindle. I have found the Kindle app on my iPod Touch to be very readable on the largest font setting  and with the inverse color scheme (white text on a black background). Despite this, I still prefer to listen to books than read them. It saves eyestrain and often the narration is qutie good. Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s debut dark fantasy trilogy, The Frist Law, caught my attention in the bookstore when the first book came out here in the US. I read the first chapter in the bookstore cafe, took it home and jut could not put it down. There were no electronic or audio editions. The books were released early in the UK, so I had a friend pick me up the next two while he was visiting. These are a few of the very short list  of fiction books I have read in paper in the last decade. As I noted in Best Served Cold, I have occasionally pestered the author by email about releasing audio version. Joe has been incredibly responsive to my requests, but the hold up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPS vs. Talking Lamp-Posts. Why we need a WikiAudioEyesGuide.Org</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/talking-lamp-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Twtter, Talking lamp-posts will help blind people find their way. IF YOU heard a lamp-post talking, you might think you were going mad. But speaking signs have been springing up to help blind and partially-sighted people. Newcastle is one of the first places in the UK to pilot the RNIB React Talking Sign System, which aims to help visually impaired folk get around. Speaker units can be fixed to lamp-posts on popular routes and are triggered by an electronic fob which users carry. When the speaker is activated, it tells the user where they are and what is around them, helping them decide where to go next. And it talks in a North East accent. This seems like a reasonable idea at first blush. But I think that building special lamp posts (or lamp-post add-on boxes) and installing them everywhere may be an inefficient way to give blind folks an automatic audible description of their location. There are several GPS devices designed to guide the blind right now. They can give turn-by-turn pedestrian directions from point A to point B, just like the one in your car does. Of course, these devices do not offer descriptions of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HearPlanet</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/hearplanet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, some one, as usual, has beaten me to it.  Not long ago, I posted about talking lamp posts. These talking lamp posts would give nearby visitors an audio description of their location. I thought it would be a better idea to build that capability into GPS-capable devices. They can build the ‘guides’ into the GPS devices. The new driving GPS devices allow users to import audio guides that are triggered as you near a location with a description. Why not add these to the pedestrian GPS devices? It could be a grass roots effort, like a Wikipedie-esque WikiAudioEyesGuide. The GPS device could download audio clips for he local area (created by regular people) that would be triggered when the GPS device nears particular GPS coordinates. This way there is not extensive expense changing lampposts. Also, information can be updated regularly. Well, HearPlanet is an iPhone app that reads nearby Wikipedia entries out loud. It turns out that Wikipedia is already a WikiAudioEyesGuide site. HearPlanet delivers location information that really speaks to you. It&#8217;s like having a professional tour guide always by your side. Leave those bulky tour books behind and let HearPlanet show you the way. We make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/avedon-slidesho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon&#8217;s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography, from May 15 to Sept. 6. From his earliest, sun-splashed pictures in 1944 to portraits in 2000 that convey his fashion fatigue, the I.C.P. exhibition is the largest survey of Avedon’s fashion work since the Metropolitan Museum show in 1978. The slidewhow offers full screen images with a pair of informative audio essays by the exhibit curators. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Audio Books &#8211; New York TimesLighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindSensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowTank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens BlogModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.com]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone May Feature Voice Control and Feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/iphone-may-feature-voice-control-and-feedback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As spotted on MacWord&#8217;s iPhone Central, Ars Technica is reporting that iPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback. Various voice-related features, under the codename &#8220;Jibbler,&#8221; have been discovered in the version of SpringBoard set to ship with the next update to Apple&#8217;s mobile operating system. &#8230;. Not much information is known at this time, but according to our own people familiar with the matter, Jibbler appears be an enhancement to the iPhone SpringBoard application, the Finder-esque app that acts as a launcher and will support the newly announced 3.0 Spotlight search. Jibbler may be controlled via the iPhone headset—button squeezes could be used to record short voice segments from the user, which Jibbler will then interpret. Voice synthesis can then be used to give the user a response, similar to the latest generation iPod shuffle, which can &#8220;read&#8221; playlists and track names—the difference being that the iPhone hardware itself could handle real-time voice synthesis. This would be a giant leap forward for iPhone accessibility. The only way I can readily navigate my current phone, the Razr, is through its rudimentary audio feedback. The Razr repeats phone numbers as I dial them and has some basic voice commands. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Served Audible</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/best-served-audible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I have posted about my campaign for more unabridged audiobooks. I have not abandoned my quest, but I have not made much progress either. I did hear back this week from one of my favorite new fantasy authors, Joe Abercrombie, about the bogged down negotiations for the audio rights to his works. About a year or so ago, I picked up The Blade Itself, Abercrombie&#8217;s first book and the first of his First Law trilogy. I am not sure why I picked it up. The title, the cover, the back cover spiel, the first few pages? Something grabbed me about it and overcame my reluctance to struggle with my reading glasses. As soon I had returned home, I was hooked. Since Abercrombie is English, his books come out there first, followed by as much as a year later here. By the time I finished the first book of this trilogy, I was jonesing for the next. I hooked a British friend on the series just to get him to import the next two as they came out on that side of the pond. Now with the coming of his new novel, Best Served Cold, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographs Described @ the Victoria and Albert</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/photographs-described-the-victoria-and-albert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Victoria and Albert Museum offers via Photographs Described for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. Currently this online collections has four historical images with descriptions for perusal. This section of the website looks at four very different historic photographs from the V&#38;A&#8217;s collection. Each photograph is reproduced in colour and is accompanied by an explanation of the photographic process, the historical context of the image and a vivid description of the photograph to help blind or visually impaired visitors imagine what the image is like. What we need is a grass roots effort to do this for all museum objects. An online, downloadable WikiArtDescription service. Just show download the collection for a particular museum onto your iPhone or other smartphone. ID the relevant piece and, voila, here&#8217;s your description. Like your typical museum $5 audioguide, but free, universal, ubiquitous and user-driven. This would make a great iPhone app! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Blind Visitors Photography Project @ Victoria and Albert MuseumNYTimes: MoMA Helps Visitors To Use Ears To See2010 InSights Art CompetitionEnter the APH InSights Art CompetitionGPS vs. Talking Lamp-Posts. Why we need a WikiAudioEyesGuide.Org]]></description>
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		<title>Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/variable-speed-playback-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Updated for iPhone 3.0 @ Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0] Speeding up a recording used to make it sound like Alvin &#38; the Chipmunks. Growing up, I had a cassette player for the blind that had a variable speed playback control. Being a kid, I used it mainly for entertainment value. Fun was had with friends making the narrators sound silly. Slide the bar up to get the fast, high-pitched tones of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Slide it down and you get slow, sonorous speech. I never used the cassette player much. It was more of a novelty. My sight was still good enough to read books without glasses even though I had to do it close up and with lots of eye strain and headaches. Those days are long over. Now I rely much more on audio books. I have never learned to get along well with the cassette players designed for the blind. Instead, I listen mostly to books that I get from audible.com. In the early days, I listen to these books on a variety of MP3 players. At some point, though, I settled on and have stuck with Apple&#8217;s iPods. I had an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPod Shuffle has VoiceOver: Any Good for Audiobooks?</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/ipod-shuffle-has-voiceover-any-good-for-audiobooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably heard, this week Apple released its new Shiffie.  The key new accessibility feature is VoiceOver. Introducing VoiceOver. Musically speaking, the new iPod shuffle is brilliant, thanks to an exciting new feature called VoiceOver. Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you as the music dips down. It even announces the names of your playlists. And when your battery needs charging, VoiceOver tells you that, too. Practically speaking, you press a button on the headphone cord to prompt the iPod to talk to you. Different cues will give you title and artist or battery level or playlist information. All very useful and all very overdue. Between last year&#8217;s nano and this month&#8217;s Shuffle, Apple is well on its way to bringing an audio interface to its mobile devices. Before recommending this to all the visually impaired music lovers out there, I have one concern that I have not seen addressed in the reviews so far. My primary reason for my iPod is to listen to books. Many visually impaired users  offer audiobooks as a main reason for having iPods and other MP3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Access to the NPR iPhone App</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/no-access-to-the-npr-iphone-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two best men at my wedding. Their tandem toast revolved around my relationship to BPR. Addiction may be the word they used. So, as I was browsing the iPhone app store on my iPod Touch, I could not resist testing out NPR Mobile when I ran across it. NPR Mobile is an unofficial app, put together by a volunteer and released gratis. From the web site: NPR Mobile 1.0 is an easy-to-use application that will help you find your favorite NPR programs and segments. I’ve found that with it, I am able to expose myself to additional NPR programming that my local station doesn’t carry. Often times, when I wake up in the morning, I half-hear a story on Morning Edition, and want to come back to it later in the day. With NPR Mobile, I’ve been able to do this, and hear the full story on my time. It does exactly what it is supposed to do and it does it with a simple elegance. But how does it look from a low vision perspective? Since I was curious about the accessibility of the app, I look a look at their sotry, Some Technology Leaves The Blind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice Terminal Service on Today&#8217;s NYT Tech Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NYT Tech Talk podcast from the New York Times features two accessibility pieces. The first accessibility segment featues Audiopoint Voice Terminal Service Brian Lichorowic, the chief executive of Audiopoint, explains how the company’s Voice Terminal Service works to bring the Internet to visually impaired users by phone. Bettina Edelstein also offers a round-up of free voice-activated iPhone apps. There is also a segment on voice dialers on the iPhone. The Tech Talk web page has a list of links to these voice dialer apps. I would love to review these apps, but have the Touch rather than the iPhone. If someone wants to spot me an iPhone for a few hours, I can put something together. You can listen to the NYT Tech Talk podcast direclty from its webpage. Personally, I subscribe to it via iTunes. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:No Need for VoiceOver on the Web?Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimesiPhone AccessAccessing Google Talk on the iPhoneiPhone 3.0 Accessibility Preview]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Controversy Catching Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brouhaha over the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech function possibly violating copyright has really caught fire. The issue hit the papers as well as the blogosphere. The Wall Street Journal carried the sotry with New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir. Several fellow accessibility blogs have picked up the issue. The Talking Books Librarian asks &#8220;Kindle 2 text to speech: is it a copyright violation or help for those with disabilities?&#8220;. Mac-Accessibility call for an email campaign in Author’s Guild Opposes TTS for reading Electronic Materials. The geek and sci-fi blogs are burning up on the issue as well. Wired reports on the Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2. Geek News Central brings up: The Kindle, Copyright, and Neil Gaiman. Speaking of sci-fi author, Neil Gaiman, he has has a Quick argument summary on his blog. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software IllegalBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageKindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationBookshelf AccessOne Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access]]></description>
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		<title>Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Slashdot, Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. &#8220;The Author&#8217;s Guild claims that the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the right to read a book out loud,&#8221; said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. &#8220;That&#8217;s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.&#8221; Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn&#8217;t copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person&#8217;s nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild&#8217;s claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance.&#8221; why is there such a conflict between accessibility and copyright? It seems to me the lot of accessibility issues are a side effect of copyright protection. Digital rights management, (DRM), as always impeded the flow of accessible information. The Library of Congress has thousands of volumes of text in audio format, but does not release it digitally because of fears of copyright infringement. Publishers are afraid of accessible electronic books in open formats, such as PDF, for the same reason. The music industry seems ready to abandon DRM. Apple&#8217;s iTunes has begun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Audio Tours: iJourneys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NY Times has an artucke about a new audio tour company, iJourneys. It looks like a good one. [iJourneys] If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Audio Books &#8211; New York TimesAudio Tour PodcastsThe Graying of the Web (NYTimes)NYTimes: MoMA Helps Visitors To Use Ears To SeeMy Point Exactly]]></description>
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