[Athen] Question about speech to text program to read graphic novels

[Stager, Catherine]

I would bring the Professor in on this – if you don’t know what he considers the pertinent details, you cannot convey them.

I had a wonderful student in a Universal Design for Digital Media course who created a video for access to a graphic novel. He did an audio description track as well as the actual text so that it was experienced more like the graphic novel experience where the images may convey as much of the story as the text does.  He even did multiple voices for the different characters in his audio track and included a slide whistle signal that he moved to the next page of content.  I was very impressed!


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Cath

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Not every PDF is going to be workable, and this is one of these times when you need to do something else.

You need to turn this graphic novel into text-only, aka, a Word file.  No pictures. The student can then listen to the files while viewing the hard copy of the book with their eyes.  It may help to name characters and make the file like a script for a movie.


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Subject: [Athen] Question about speech to text program to read graphic novels

Hello All,

I am working on a graph novel for a student that needs it to be read to them. I am using Kurzweil. Unfortunately Kurzweil is not a fan of this kind of format for books and I am forced to do all the editing manually in Kurzweil to make sure its reads it correctly.

I was wondering if there is any other program out there (perferble free) that  reads graphic novels better than Kurzweil?

Or is there another format I should be uploading into Kurzweil that would read it better? At the moment I am using PDF files to upload to Kurzweil.

Thank you for your time and help.
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Saint Mary's College of California
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