Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States. The digital content can be accessed with a read-aloud function, but the read-aloud function is unusable for equal access.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

World Wildlife Fund also wanted to try out a new display partner for their Online Gift Center program and turned to one we’re all already familiar with: Amazon. Amazon offered both managed and self-service packages and offered the opportunity to leverage their extensive eCommerce data. higher ad comprehension than traditional display.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. More on that in another essay. Another key argument is distribution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. I knew if I wanted to make the book relevant and accessible, I should get on it. I narrated it, with the help of engineer Jason Hatfield and the folks at Indigital Studios in Santa Cruz, CA.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. I actually think they’re getting less by stopping people from buying ebooks who are unlikely to buy audio books at higher prices. copyright law.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft to continue spending a lot of time and effort in this area, liberating us from our hardware prisons. . FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Today Bookshare adds around 3,000 books per month to the collection, with our publisher and electronic distribution partners supplying most of these books, at the same time as they go to electronic retailers like Amazon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. About $270 on Amazon. 120 on Amazon Headphones. About $100 on Amazon. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

The thing is a computer interface for new Ford cars that sports two screens or dashboards: an instrument cluster display shows vehicle information such as engine speed, temperature, and trip data; and the other dashboard shows audio, phone, and navigation information. Ford also plans to include a web browser.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Pricing : Amazon Rekognition offers a free tier with limited usage and a pay-as-you-go pricing model that may be more accessible for nonprofits with a limited budget.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

It isn't up yet at this writing, but you should be able to hear an audio recording of the session once it is posted, here. It was great to see young people idolizing a human rights hero. Then they gave him a sweatshirt, which cracked me up. The event was hosted by the World Affairs Council. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

I liked the audio welcome message at this site. Amazon Conservation Team. One thing that struck me is that difference in style/look and feel - from say this profile and this one. I can't seem to get handle on myspace ugliness. Some sites are using the blog feature to write about their organizations, while others haven't set it up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. Make sure you promote them in a way that is both effective and appealing, with clear descriptions and attractive photos.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. We can’t go back. Don’t type yet in the chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. For every ten minutes of audio, it takes about an hour to edit and clean it up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. Our vision is that the same ebooks available through mass channels like the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad should be fully accessible.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Includes Netflix, Hulu, Xfinity, Amazon and lots of others. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. You can select channels, such as historic pictures or great new restaurants. Ron Marshall – Manager of Technical Operations.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available). Full disclosure: The books I've linked to are attached to my Amazon Associates account, which means that if you buy anything after clicking on the link, I get a percentage of the sale. All of the episodes are available online. Share Tweet.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. If you have a skill, if you have something to teach that you want your audience to know about, you can create your own Alexa skill for free at Amazon. So pretty neat.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Big thinkers like Jeremy Rifkin predicted that the costs of exchanging and distributing goods and services could soon become “near zero” with the platform revolution.

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