Audio card recorders
Reflecting on my discussion of the audio card recorders in lesson 6 of the Information Management course, I wanted to get some other perspectives. Ellie, the Carroll Center’s esteemed Personal Management instructor, tells me that she prefers the Vox Com 3 to either of the other two I mentioned in the lesson. The Vox Com machine is much smaller than either the Can-do or the Card Master. Additionally, the cards themselves are much smaller. In fact, they are just like plastic credit cards as opposed to the longish paper cards of the other two machines.
Ellie says the Vox Com 3 cards are easier to manipulate because they are rigid and are more easily placed in the reader slot. She finds the smaller size to be a big advantage. A person can carry around the machine with him or her easily, and the smaller cards can be attached to more things unobtrusively. She also likes the fact that the Vox Com cards can get wet with out adverse consequences. This means that you could wash the cards if something spills on them.
April 5th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
While examining comments concerning voxcom devices, I began to wonder if one can still purchase voxcom magnetic recording tape with a sticky backing. Sticking a strip of this tape onto the back of a photograph would allow one to record a few key words to describe the picture so that a blind person could sort through familiar pictures and share experiences at social events.
April 5th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
Has anyone heard of the Voila? It stands for VOIced LAbels Reader. I came across it while looking for a sticky taped solution like the one mentioned in brianm’s comment. However, its still no sticky solution. It appears as though there are tiny plastic barcode strips that you attach to objects using wire ties or velcro. The reader is a barcode scanner. The plastic strips are small and thin enough that you could possibly double sided sticky tape them to a photograph. I found it for sale at MaxiAids: http://www.maxiaids.com/store/prodview.asp…;
April 5th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Because the Vox Com 3 cards are so small, they could be paper-clipped to a standard 4 X 6 photograph. You could then listen to the audio label associated with that picture.
Any of these solutions will work, including the Voila. The question is how much capacity do you need? and what form factor would you prefer?
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