Comments on: Nature Clinical Practice: Audio Articles http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/ Exploring Medical Librarianship and Web Geekery Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-106274 David Rothman Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:46:16 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/#comment-106274 Hi Ves. True, but I'd much rather hear the article as read by a literate person with a lovely English accent than the stilted, unnatural inflections still present in even the best TTS software. Hi Ves.

True, but I’d much rather hear the article as read by a literate person with a lovely English accent than the stilted, unnatural inflections still present in even the best TTS software.

]]> By: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-106272 Clinical Cases and Images - Blog Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:42:53 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/#comment-106272 Text-to-Speech Programs offer another alternative and you actually get to choose the text you want to listen to, i.e. you are not limited to the choice of the editor. I wrote more about it here: http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/text-to-speech-programs-and-continuous.html We just presented a small abstract at the last meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators: http://www.iamse.org/conf/conf11/abstracts/t5.htm Text-to-Speech Programs offer another alternative and you actually get to choose the text you want to listen to, i.e. you are not limited to the choice of the editor. I wrote more about it here:
http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/text-to-speech-programs-and-continuous.html

We just presented a small abstract at the last meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators:
http://www.iamse.org/conf/conf11/abstracts/t5.htm

]]> By: Jason Bobe http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-106232 Jason Bobe Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:36:59 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2007/08/01/nature-clinical-practice-audio-articles/#comment-106232 I heard a very interesting comment from John Halamka a few weeks ago. He said that a new practice is emerging where audio-recordings of lectures are compressed and played back at quicker than normal speeds to maximize the delivery of content per minute to students in online courses. Of course, the playback can't be too much quicker than the normal cadence of human speech or people won't be able to understand. But apparently, it is quite easy to shave off 20 minutes from an hour lecture. Students apparently love it. I wonder if these audio articles might benefit as well. I heard a very interesting comment from John Halamka a few weeks ago. He said that a new practice is emerging where audio-recordings of lectures are compressed and played back at quicker than normal speeds to maximize the delivery of content per minute to students in online courses. Of course, the playback can’t be too much quicker than the normal cadence of human speech or people won’t be able to understand. But apparently, it is quite easy to shave off 20 minutes from an hour lecture. Students apparently love it. I wonder if these audio articles might benefit as well.

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