[RNLD] Fwd: How to make any book you own, into a talking book. Special Offer finishes end of March. (esl)

Tue Mar 19 00:19:26 UTC 2013

This is great stuff, but it seems to me to be a completely different type of 
thing from the original thread about pointing example sentences to archival 
versions of recordings and playing back segments based on their timecode.

Perhaps we need two different threads here.

-- 
Aidan Wilson

School of Languages and Linguistics
The University of Melbourne

+61428 458 969
aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
@aidanbwilson

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Dr Christina Eira - VACL wrote:

> 
> vacl has been doing this for a while(with a different company) (1) as a demo or post-print, with the stickers, and (2) set
> up pre printing, so that the coded strips appear invisibly in the book or whatever (no extra printing costs). pretty good,
> limited only by the quality of recording and speaker in the little tool. you can also bring in the recording from
> elsewhere, which helps the first bit of that (not sure if the comapny advertised below gives you that option). The amount
> of storage is very large, so you can record quite a lot.
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> Dr Christina Eira
> Community Linguist
> Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
> tel: (03) 9600 3811                   ceira at vaclang.org.au
> fax: (03) 9600 4277                www.vaclang.org.au
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> VIC 
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> From: Colleen Hattersley [mailto:colhatts at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 9:57 AM
> To: rnlist
> Subject: [RNLD] Fwd: How to make any book you own, into a talking book. Special Offer finishes end of March. (esl)
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> 
> All,
> 
> This notice just came through from the Language Centre in Perth. Perhaps a chance to try the technology.  For information.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Colleen Hattersley
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