[Athen] Creating MP3s?

[Joseph Polizzotto MA]

Hi Russell:

Here's a link to a video about the script:

DOCX-MP3 Script Demonstration
<https://github.com/polizoto/DOCX-MP3/blob/main/README.md#further-resources>

Sorry for the video quality and I hope this helps in some way,

Joseph

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:54 AM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>
wrote:


> Hi Joseph,

>

>

>

> Sorry, getting to these messages a bit late. Thanks for your response. We

> decided to go with TextAloud. We don’t do a lot of conversions to MP3, but,

> if possible, I’d be interested in seeing that video on how you do it?

>

>

>

> Thanks again,

>

>

>

> Russell

>

>

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> Hi Russell:

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>

>

> I have found that most software programs that produce MP3 files are

> lacking in one of the following features:

>

>

>

> - voice changes (for foreign languages)

>

> - natural pausing at the end of paragraphs, page numbers; pitch changes

> for parenthetical content

>

> - ability to read math content

>

> - metadata for MP3s

>

> - MP3 bookmarks for easier navigation

>

>

>

> For all of these reasons, we have gone away from using the tools that the

> vendors provide and created a script that uses Balabolka's command-line

> tool <http://www.cross-plus-a.com/bconsole.htm> + Microsoft's native

> voices to produce MP3s.

>

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>

> *Note:* There are a few dependencies you would need to install to use it,

> such as Git for Windows (to recognize all the script's commands), Lame (to

> convert WAV to MP3), id3 (to add metadata), and FFMPEG (to add a Cover

> image to the MP3). Those are necessary to use the script while others

> (MathJax-SRE and Aeneas) are for advanced features (math and MP3 bookmark

> creation).

>

>

>

> If you are interested, I can put it on Github and share a link to a video

> about its usage.

>

>

>

> Joseph

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>

>

> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 2:10 PM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>

> wrote:

>

> Thanks Tristen. I totally forgot that OpenBook had that feature.

>

> Looks like we've got a few options.

>

> Take care,

>

> Russell

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> Hi Russell,

> You can also use OpenBook 9.0 for converting text to mp3 files.  Simply

> import or scan your document into OpenBook, then select the Save to mp3

> option in the File menu.

>

> Hope that helps.

>

> Tristen Breitenfeldt

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> Hi everyone,

>

> We need to convert a textbook to an MP3 format for a student. We haven't

> done this in quite a few years. In the past we used TextAloud with good

> results, but that was a long time ago.

>

> Is TextAloud still the best tool for converting a Word document to MP3

> format? How does NaturalReader compare with TextAloud in this regard? Any

> other programs that work better?

>

> Thanks for any ideas and advice.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Russell

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> Hi Adina,

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> I've recently been working with a Graduate student on Nvivo. She's relying

> heavily on shortcut options listed at

> http://help-nv11.qsrinternational.com/desktop/procedures/keyboard_shortcuts.

> htm

> <http://help-nv11.qsrinternational.com/desktop/procedures/keyboard_shortcuts.htm>

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> I worked with her as someone who could help explain accessible ways to

> navigate while one of her college peers/supervisors helped us know which

> features she needed to access. There were a few items that weren't reading

> correctly but we were able to figure out alternative ways to access/input

> info. Like all programs, it's not fully accessible, but it was more

> accessible than I was expecting based on the interface I saw. She's just

> beginning to use the program so my experience is based on a very small

> portion of what I expect this application can do.

>

> Dawn

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> Dawn Hunziker

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> IT Accessibility Consultant, Sr. | Disability Resources

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> The University of Arizona | hunziker at arizona.edu

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> drc.arizona.edu<http://drc.arizona.edu/> | itaccessibility.arizona.edu<

> http://itaccessibility.arizona.edu/>

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> 520-626-9409

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> From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> on

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> Subject: [EXT][Athen] Qualitative research software

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> Hi everyone,

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> I?m wondering if anyone has info about accessibility of any qualitative

> research software?

>

>

>

> The names of the products I looked for are:

>

>   *   Atlas.ti- has a VPAT from 2013 posted on its site.  (Not too

> promising)

>   *   NVivo- I found this VPAT with no

> date<

> https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/groups/academic-technology-se

> rvices/nvivo_vpat.pdf

> <https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/groups/academic-technology-services/nvivo_vpat.pdf>>

> that I could find on CSU?s site.  It says NVivo ?uses 3rd party software?

> that didn?t/doesn?t work with screen readers.  It doesn?t say which

> features don?t work.  NVivo?s site says it works with JAWS<

> https://help-nv.qsrinternational.com/12/win/v12.1.98-d3ea61/Content/abo

> ut-nvivo/accessibility.htm#UseascreenreaderwithNVivo

> <https://help-nv.qsrinternational.com/12/win/v12.1.98-d3ea61/Content/about-nvivo/accessibility.htm#UseascreenreaderwithNVivo>>

> here.  Dept of Veterans Affairs found it was ?not conformant? with Section

> 508<https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=6085> in June

> 2020.

>   *   ?MAXQDA? ?VPAT? -didn?t find any relevant results on Google and I

> didn?t find any accessibility info on its site

>   *   "Dedoose" "vpat" -didn?t find any relevant results on Google and I

> didn?t find any accessibility info on its site

>   *   "Provalis research text analytics software" "vpat" -didn?t find any

> relevant results on Google and I didn?t find any accessibility info on its

> site

>

>

>

> Names of some others I didn?t look up are

>

>   *   Raven?s Eye

>   *   Quirkos

>

>

>

> I would consider other qualitative research software if I find any that?s

> screen reader accessible.  I?m sighted and this is planning ahead for a

> project where I might be working with colleague(s) who are blind or have

> other disabilities.

>

>

>

> Thank you for any ideas!

>

>

>

> Adina Mulliken

>

> Silberman School of Social Work and Urban Public Health Library

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> Hunter College, CUNY

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