Dear All,
Sorry for the delay reply.
I had interacted with various visually challenged students who have
good knowledge in all the resources available for them and check with
them about our list of items to be recorded. They also check with the
Anna Centenary Library, Chennai and below are the only two items which
is already available in MP3 format.
1) Thirukkural - I have the complete collection of Thirukkural in
Audio MP3 Format.
2) Pudumaipithan Sirukkathaigal - This collection of short stories is
released in Audio MP3 format by Kizhakku Publication. (I already
collect this from one of the visually challenged friend)
Apart from the above two items rest of them are needs to be recorded.
Below is my suggestion to segregate our work by phase by phase. Please
pass on your suggestion and comments on this.
PHASE 1: MATERIAL COLLECTION
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Materials (Books) to be Collected which are going to be recorded in
the MP3 audio format.
PHASE 2: INSTRUCTIONS TO BE GIVEN TO VOLUNTEERS
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Already last year, we had conducted a survey in few of the visually
challenged homes in chennai and found that they are not using the less
available recorded materials, due to the recording is very poor and
many disturbance in the recording. In our observation in Chennai
itself many of the small organization started to record the study
material (only few topics) but they failed due to the following
reason.
(a) Poor quality of the recorded material ( Voice not clear/ some
external sounds such as children playing/vessels sound,Poor quality of
mike, etc)
(b) Many of them are still recording in the Cassettes, for a small
book itself it take nearly 10 cassettes, but in case of CD a Compact
Disc is enough. It is cost effective also.
(c) Most of them are recording whole paragraph in a single mp3 file.
It is tough to hear through out the paragraph at a stretch to remember
and recall.
(d) Especially for Tamil recording, these visually challenged students
needs explanation in tamil for some tough grammar words.
Below are the instruction to be given to volunteer for Tamil Language
recording.
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(1) While recording every sentence needs to be recorded in a separate
MP3 file. Then only it will easy for them to use. They can use the
next/previous option in the player for easy & repeat learning.
(2) Reader should accompany a good Tamil-Tamil-Tamil Dictionary.
(3) Good Quality Mike is required
PHASE 3: SAMPLE RECORDING TO BE DONE
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All the new volunteer who is going to done a recording, should done a
sample recording and this sample recording needs to be check and
verified by an experience volunteer and he will instruct the volunteer
how to rectify if any mistakes done and also enhancements needs to be
apply.
PHASE 4: START RECORDING
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Volunteer will start recording the books in MP3 format.
PHASE 5: QUALITY CHECK
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Quality Check (QC) to be done by some another volunteer apart from the
person who done the recording. All the corrections needs to be done
immediately.
PHASE 6: QC PASSED RECORDING ARE COPIED TO THE CD'S
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The recordings which are passed in the Quality Check are copied to the
CD'S and now the books materials are ready to distribute to the
Visually challenge students.
Expecting your suggestions and comments.
Thanks & Regards,
T. Hari
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