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

[don nepple]

yes go for it.> From: kamillhoff at gdoe.net> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:22:39 +1000> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Is This a Good Idea??> > Hi,> i always love it when someone else comes up with a great plan;> go for it!> kat> > -----Original Message-----> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]On> Behalf Of Sheri Wells Jensen> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:34 AM> 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> > _______________________________________________> nfb-talk mailing list> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk> > _______________________________________________> nfb-talk mailing list> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk
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yes go for it.
> From: kamillhoff at gdoe.net
> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:22:39 +1000
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Is This a Good Idea??
>
> Hi,
> i always love it when someone else comes up with a great plan;
> go for it!
> kat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Sheri Wells Jensen
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:34 AM
> 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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