[nfb-talk] Is This a Good Idea??

[Reyazuddin, Yasmin]

HI Sheri, 
It is a great idea. You will be glad to know that similar websites are
already doing what you purpose. 
Example Library of Congress
Smithsonian
Check the websites 
www.loc.gov 
www.si.edu 
You will find voices speeches music and much more. 

Yasmin Reyazuddin 
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-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Sheri Wells Jensen
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:34 PM
To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nfb-talk] Is This a Good Idea??

Good Afternoon, everyone,

I was chatting with a couple grad students this weekend, and we came 
up with the following thought:

What I want is a great big website featuring  hundreds of famous 
people: politicians, actors, authors,  inventors, scientists, race 
car drivers, singers, preachers, painters, dog trainers, 
journalists...  anyone  whose name is widely known.  I want to easily 
look up that person, click on his or her name and get a sample of his 
or her voice.  I want to   use this resource for all kinds of things
like:

- hearing the voices of the actors who will be in movies I am about to
watch
- figuring out which politician I heard  on the radio
- remembering who was in some movie I saw a while back
- clarifying for myself the difference between two similar-sounding 
speakers  in the news
- getting some kind of mental representation for a famous person: 
like sighted folk do by looking at a picture

- coming up with a name for a famous person and using the voice to 
know I'm right

- geting a sense of some historical figures and that they might have
been like.

There are websites that preserve whole speeches  of historical 
significance, but what I'm looking for is something shorter and more 
focused on the voice rathher than  what the person said.
I want one place where I can go to handily  reference  Britney 
Spears, Jimmy Carter, Squeaky Fromme, Miss Piggy and Robert Frost for 
example. And make sure I'm spelling the name right, too along the way!

My students and I were thinking of writing a small grant to make this 
happen, and I have some questions:

1. Does anyone else think this is a cool idea?  would you use it?
2. What would you use it for?
3.  Do you know of anything similar?



Thanks for any input.

Peace,

Sheri W-J

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