We're worse off with the Kindle because if the right get set by the industry that publishers get to control a right which Congress hasn't given them - the right to control whether I can read my book to my kid, or my Kindle can read a book to me - users and innovators have less freedom. ![]() In 2001, Adobe released e-book technology that gave rights holders (including publishers of public domain books) the ability to control whether the Adobe e-book reader read the book aloud."īut the bigger trend here is much more troubling: Innovative technology company (Amazon (Kindle 2), Google (Google Books)) releases new innovative way to access or use content so-called "representatives" of rights owners, Corleone-like, baselessly insist on a cut innovative technology company settles with baseless demanders, and we're all arguably worse off. In a post headed Caving in to bullies (aka, here we go again), Lawrence Lessig, lawyer and founding board member of Creative Commons, points out that "We had this battle before. And at the point where they can read books to us as well as we can read them aloud to each other, we will have other things to worry about. A computer reading to you is a computer reading to you. He says:Īn audio book, read by someone who's good at it, is an audio book, an experience that's different to, sometimes complementary to, the words on the page. ![]() But the voices of Kindle 2 are quite listenable.īut "quite listenable" is not the same as a real audiobook, as author Neil Gaiman - "someone who loves audiobooks, records his own audiobooks, makes a not-insignificant portion of his income from audiobooks and has even won awards for bloody audiobooks" - has pointed out. You may be thinking that no automated read-aloud function can compete with the dulcet resonance of Jim Dale reading "Harry Potter" or of authors, ahem, reading themselves. Income from audio books helps not inconsiderably to keep authors, and publishers, afloat. They are more valuable than e-book rights. Audio rights are not generally packaged with e-book rights. And whereas e-books have yet to win mainstream enthusiasm, audio books are a billion-dollar market, and growing. But Kindle 2 is being sold specifically as a new, improved, multimedia version of books - every title is an e-book and an audio book rolled into one. If a comprehensive formal evaluation has been completed by another agency or school district within the past year, the Speech Language Pathologist can review the information and determine if it can be accepted, or if an additional evaluation is warranted.True, you can already get software that will read aloud whatever is on your computer. We accept private pay, HSA, and FSA.Įach family will receive a comprehensive report that includes a treatment plan and recommendations for the family to begin implementing immediately. * Therapy sessions lengths are determined by the student’s needs which are based on the data obtained in a formal evaluation. Receptive & Expressive Language Therapy Rates: View the Speech and Language Acquisition Milestones for your child according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). ![]() ![]() We come to where your child is during the day. Central Speech will help your child communicate effectively and confidently – while saving you the time and hassle of scheduling therapy around other work and family commitments. Early intervention is critical for overcoming speech and language delays and disorders.
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