[Arizona-students] Ceramics class

[Arielle Silverman]

Yeah, I think so. Tony might know more about the speech engine.

Arielle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allie" <Alejandra.Martins at asu.edu>
To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class


> So, it uses eloquence then? That's awesome.
>
> -- Allie
>
> God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft
> before the masterpiece.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Arielle Silverman" <Arielle.Silverman at ASU.edu>
> To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
> <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>
>
>> Hi Allie and all,
>>
>>    The KNFB reader is a portable reading device that is currently in beta
>> testing, so a number of Federationists from each state are testing the
>> machine. It is basically a PDA and digital camera which are connected
>> inside
>> a leather-like case. You can hold the reader above a page or other piece
>> of
>> printed text and press a button, and the camera will take a picture of 
>> the
>> page. About a minute later, the PDA will read any text from the page 
>> aloud
>> with a voice synthesizer similar to the one that JAWS uses. The reader is
>> good at reading most typewritten things, as well as some restaurant 
>> menus,
>> boxes, business cards, and receipts. I believe that it will be for sale
>> beginning in July.
>>
>> Arielle
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Allie" <Alejandra.Martins at asu.edu>
>> To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
>> <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 12:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>>
>>
>>> Sounds like Kim is really helpful! I looooooove it when I come across
>>> people
>>> like that!
>>>
>>> By the way, how does the KNFB work?
>>>
>>> -- Allie
>>>
>>> God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft
>>> before the masterpiece.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "tony sohl" <tonysohl at extremezone.com>
>>> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>; <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:08 PM
>>> Subject: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all, this is Melissa Cordell and Tony Sohl from Arizona.  We are 
>>>> both
>>>> taking a ceramics class this summer, and we thought you might like to
>>>> know
>>>> about our instructor and our aid who we have.
>>>>
>>>> The instructor is willing to work with us.  The aid aid who helps us in
>>>> class, is very patient with us.  Her name is Kim Mendoza.
>>>>
>>>> Kim is very understanding about our blindness as well as Melissa's
>>>> limited
>>>> use of her right hand and the fact that she's in a wheelchair.
>>>>
>>>> Kim asks us what is the best way to help us.  Kim will asm me for
>>>> example
>>>> if it's ok for her to take my hand and show me what she's doing or
>>>> sometimes she will have me put my hand over her hand so I can see what
>>>> she's doing.
>>>>
>>>> Kim will even E-mail things to us if our scanner will not be able to
>>>> read
>>>> the printed material.
>>>>
>>>> Linda Speranza our ceramics instructor asks us what's is the best way 
>>>> to
>>>> handle printed material.  I had the KNFB Reader with me the first day 
>>>> of
>>>> class and she was impressed with how I was able to read the handout
>>>> which
>>>> she gave us.  It felt good that I could sit there and listen with the
>>>> head
>>>> phones to the handout even while she was going over it with the rest of
>>>> the class.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you dink of this.
>>>>
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