1. As a thumb rule, please read same sounding words letter by letter. 2. When you come across the word first time, it is important to read them letter by letter. This would solve most of the mistakes we do with them. 3. If you were to type an unknown word, either find it by search or put it in dictionary.com. 4. The speed of reading a 250 word document may vary from 10 to 15 minutes depending on your ability to recognise things first time. But accuracy should never be compromised for speed. 5. Pl spell check, but don't trust it. In the middle of spell checking, it is important to read the original word before replacing it with the suggestion given by MS Word. 6. If you do not understand the document, especially when you are not wearing a head phone, increasing the volume helps some times. You may even reduce the reading speed of your screen reader and adjust it back to the original speed you had set up once the sentence or word becomes clear. 7. If you need to change a sentence, it is always better to copy paste it in an empty document and paste it back to the original to avoid cutting good sentences by mistake. 8. I feel it is also important to have the best focus possible when you do proof reading or editing. If distractions are too much, surely you are bound to miss or mistake things. 9. Re read the documents as much as you can. This would help you refine a few things and would help you ensure you don't send a haphazard work. 10. Know something about the subject if you can. This would prepare you for the kinds of words you may come across. Some people give glossary of terms used, which would come handy. Of course, this is a good chance for you to learn about subjects which you may not have understood or read about before. Remove the mental fret and fear about dealing with documents you may not have any idea. The task here is to read and see if it conveys things properly. That is the best a proof reader can do.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 7:18 PM To: manis...@gmail.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text Hi Manish, I found the pitch changes very distracting but I will need to work at this again. Caps are not the only problem. How did you cope with homonyms? Pranav -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Manish Agrawal Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:53 PM To: 'Geetha Shamanna'; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text doesn't using pitch to distinguish caps help you? Back in the day when I used to do a lot of proof reading as an editor for technical documents, I had set up pitch for caps during continuous reading and "say cap" during word by word and character navigation. I don't necessarily remember how I set it up or if this can be done with the latest versions. Also, the pitch is slightly more distinct with eloquence than with espeak where everything sounds the same to me. -Manish -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:44 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text Thank you, will try that out. That should make spotting misplaced capital letters a lot easier. Geetha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mukesh Sharma" <mrmukeshsha...@gmail.com> To: "'Geetha Shamanna'" <gee...@millernorbert.de>; <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text Hello, For cap announcement, you can set to play sound, which will be less irritating. To do that, Go to JAWS > Utility Menu > configuration manager > Set Options Menu > Speech and Sound Manager > Edit Current Scheme > Misc Tab Page, there in the list select cap and then tab to the set of radio choices and select "Play Sound". The next button will allow you to select WAVE file to be played. I suggest to create a new sound scheme to be used for proof reading, you can customize many options by using this method. Thanks Mukesh -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:00 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text Hi Pranav and all, As a translator, I am expected to proofread translated documents all the time. While the spellcheck feature of Word tracks down most of the spelling errors and spacing inconsistencies, the biggest difficulty I encounter when proofreading with the help of a screen reader relates to tracking down inappropriate/inadvertent capitalisation. Turning on Jaws' capitalisation announcement feature can solve the problem, but this can be grating on the ears. I am yet to find a speech-based solution to this problem. Geetha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav....@gmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:30 PM Subject: [AI] Seeking techniques for proof reading text Hi all, What techniques do you use to proof read text? Do you use audio or Braille? I am in a situation where I need to produce perfect text. I cannot afford even a single error. I use a screen reader namely Jaws for Windows. I do most of my writing in Microsoft Word so use the spelling and grammar checker that comes with Microsoft Office. I also review my documents using speech but I am liable to miss things especially if two words sound alike. Pranav To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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