>> Talking book effort marks 75 years >> Marathon recording session is planned >> >> By Martha Elson >> >> Lou Harpenau was immersed in the world of the eastern Caribbean, >> reading aloud in a recording studio about iguanas and hurricanes in >> "The Ancestor's Tale," a book about evolution by Richard Dawkins. >> >> Harpenau, of the Jeffersontown area, was recording Dawkins' book at >> the American Printing House for the Blind in Clifton this week. >> Tomorrow, the long-time professional talking book narrator will join >> about 40 others in a marathon volunteer session to record "Gulliver's >> Travels," by Jonathan Swift. >> >> They'll read in 20-minute shifts from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate >> the 75th anniversary of the National Library Service's Talking Book >> Program for the blind and physically handicapped. In 1937, "Gulliver's >> Travels" became the first book the local printing house recorded for >> the program. >> >> The public is invited to watch and listen to the narrators and tour >> the Callahan Museum at the nearly 150-year-old printing house, 1839 >> Frankfort Ave. Museum director Mike Hudson came up with the idea of >> the marathon recording session. >> >> The printing house produces about 500,000 tapes of recorded books each >> year under contract with the National Library Service, which operates >> a lending library for people who qualify under the auspices of the >> Library of Congress. >> >> Among the other Gulliver narrators will be local broadcasting >> professionals Milton Metz, Gary Roedemeier, Terry Meiners and Barry >> Bernson, and theater performer Mitzi Friedlander. >> >> Popular narrators can be the equivalent of movie stars to talking book >> users, said Roberta Williams, the printing house's public relations >> and special projects manager. >> >> Harpenau, a retired news director for WAVE Radio who began narrating >> for the printing house in 1970, also has recorded the Merck Manual >> medical guide -- which took more than 123 hours and is thought to be >> the longest book ever recorded for the national program. >> >> "I read a lot of learned things," he said. "I wish I could say I >> retained all" of it. Harpenau and the others work with a monitor, who >> follows along in the book and listens to the narrators, checking for >> mistakes. >> >> Down a hall marked with "Quiet Please" signs, long-time narrator John >> Polk of Lyndon, who also will participate tomorrow, was recording "The >> First Mountain Man: Preacher," a Western by William W. Johnstone. >> Polk, who was production director for WHAS Radio for 10 years, still >> does freelance voice-overs, but said "this is the job I love the >> most." >> >> Another of tomorrow's narrators will be Megan Burnett of Buechel, who >> started reading about a year ago. An actress with the Pleiades Theatre >> Company, she also teaches drama at St. Raphael Catholic School in the >> Upper Highlands. >> >> She said she had hoped to become a narrator when she received her >> master's degree in fine arts from the University of Louisville in 1991 >> but was told she needed more voice training. In contrast to being on >> stage, "It's a unique experience being alone with a book, reading it >> aloud, with just you and a monitor," she said. "I call it swimming in >> the book." >> >> Computers make the recording process faster and easier, but in the >> early days the recordings were on 20-minute wax cylinders and >> narrators had to start over if they made a mistake, said Steve >> Mullins, studio director at the printing house. >> >> Mullins said narrators do extensive research before beginning to >> record, looking up pronunciations, familiarizing themselves with the >> text and perhaps planning when to present graphs and charts. Narrators >> may read for two hours at a stretch. >> >> "It takes a certain kind of person," he said. "It's a really skilled >> job." >> >> Reporter Martha Elson can be reached at (502) 582-7061. ----- Original Message ----- From: "zainab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Learning Braille in Pune.
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