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Manual control of carousel display engine for VO
Hello everyone,
Just letting you know one way we are using carousel
and how it would be great if a feature was added
to the display engine -
We currently have a program called audible local ledger
where a person reads the text off of the screen
and does a voice over on top, recording to a VCR. This allows our vision impaired viewers can listen to the bulletin board system.
It would be really great to have a manual advance mode button
which would allow the person to manually advance pages
so they do not have to rush speaking the text. some of the pages need to be longer than others due to the amount of info on the page.
Scala allows for this, and I think it would be a great new feature.
right now she has to speed read some text and sit for long periods of time with no speech others. A Simple mouse click or function key would do the trick.
Just letting you know one way we are using carousel
and how it would be great if a feature was added
to the display engine -
We currently have a program called audible local ledger
where a person reads the text off of the screen
and does a voice over on top, recording to a VCR. This allows our vision impaired viewers can listen to the bulletin board system.
It would be really great to have a manual advance mode button
which would allow the person to manually advance pages
so they do not have to rush speaking the text. some of the pages need to be longer than others due to the amount of info on the page.
Scala allows for this, and I think it would be a great new feature.
right now she has to speed read some text and sit for long periods of time with no speech others. A Simple mouse click or function key would do the trick.
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Inappropriate?That's a great idea! We're going to have to borrow that!
I'm wondering if you could have the person doing the voice overs use the slideshow feature instead of viewing it off the screen. They can stop the slideshow and read the page then click and go the next screen at their descretion. You could capture their audio as a .wav and could schedule it with the page to keep it all in sync.
- Keri -
Inappropriate?Keri, you stole my idea! [:p]
Carousel 4.0 allows you to attatch a sound file (.wav, .mp3) to an individual bulletin, and that bulletin will be displayed for the length of the sound file. So if you capture a sound file of someone reading the message, upload it to the Media section, and attach it to the bulletin, the timing in the DisplayEngine should be perfect!
Great ideas, btw. This forum thing is great! [:)]
-John
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John Reilly
Developer
Tightrope Media Systems -
Inappropriate?I knew I couldn't have been alone in this.
We used to do an "audible" bulletin board for the visually impaired as well. I'd have to record the Carousel scroll off the air and have volunteers do a voice-over in a linear edit booth. Well, now that technology is gone and so is my audible bulletin board. Many elderly and blind citizens still ask me about it to this day.
What I'm wondering is if TRMS has ever discussed adding some sort of speech add-on to Carousel so that bulletins can be both seen and heard. This would be a great feature so that everyone can stay abreast of what's going on in the community.
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