For our Digital Talking Book Project supported by the Hans Foundation, volunteers of the Society for the Visually Handicapped, Kolkata, would collect the unedited recorded data from narrators and pass them over to digital editors for editing;p then it will be approved by our two master IT personnel and then only the book will be stored in a master CD.
What we found was that editors needed to devote considerable costly & skilled time to sort rwa data before they could take these up for editing. The viable alternative flashed in our mind was that let our Blind master CD checkers be given the assignment to listen to the raw data of recordists/narrators, make note in Braille their findings, check for correction if possible and then let it go to the editors. What has been found very heart-warming is that our beneficiaries would come twice a week for master CD checking. This raw-data checking they are taking as home assignments for the remaining five days of the week, along with an EVD player, electric extn board and they are so happy to be able to do this work at home in stead of sitting idle. At the moment we have seven of them working, Meena Samanta (Female), Meena Mondal (Female) , Priyanka Kundu (Female), Putul Das (Female) and Renu Agarwal. Among males there are Panchugopal Paramanik and Swapan Biswas.
They are also taking turn to work as Braille proofreaders, a skill that we would insist on their daily practice.
What we found was that editors needed to devote considerable costly & skilled time to sort rwa data before they could take these up for editing. The viable alternative flashed in our mind was that let our Blind master CD checkers be given the assignment to listen to the raw data of recordists/narrators, make note in Braille their findings, check for correction if possible and then let it go to the editors. What has been found very heart-warming is that our beneficiaries would come twice a week for master CD checking. This raw-data checking they are taking as home assignments for the remaining five days of the week, along with an EVD player, electric extn board and they are so happy to be able to do this work at home in stead of sitting idle. At the moment we have seven of them working, Meena Samanta (Female), Meena Mondal (Female) , Priyanka Kundu (Female), Putul Das (Female) and Renu Agarwal. Among males there are Panchugopal Paramanik and Swapan Biswas.
They are also taking turn to work as Braille proofreaders, a skill that we would insist on their daily practice.
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