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Harry,
I think you have received many good points on why your suggestion is not
as straightforward as you thought.
One of the issues why Congress is a bit confused, has to do with their own
doing. They say why can't blind people use off-the-shelf technology?
Well, they have NLS so fearful of copyright violations that NLS has felt
it necessary to make sure that NLS books cannot be read on off-the-shelf
technology. Four track half speed cassettes.
Off-the-shelf tech works for most people but not all.
Even though I am in the technology industry. Even though I listen to
synthetic speech eight to ten hours a day, I would rather run a drill
through my ears than listen to a book via synthetic speech.
As far as the question about the learning curve, I believe the curve is
output verses effort. The effort to learn to use a four-track tape
recorder to listen to a human voice is much less than the effort required
to learn to use a computer, a screen reader, a scanner, and listen to a
synthesized voice for the same result, reading a book.
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Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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