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Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones
- Author(s):
- Tiffany Chan, Mara Mills, Jentery Sayers (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Computer Studies in Language and Literature, Digital Humanities, MS Sound, TC Digital Humanities, TC Science and Literature
- Subject(s):
- Translating and interpreting, Mass media, History, Sound--Study and teaching, Disability studies, Design, Machine translating
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- mary jameson, reading optophone, optical character recognition, prototyping, Translation, Media history, Sound studies, Design history, Machine translation
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6862BB1J
- Abstract:
- This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide testimonial fragments about individual use, 2D to 3D translation helps scholars to more broadly characterize optophone reading and understand technical affordances. See http://amodern.net/article/optophonic-reading/.
- Notes:
- See http://amodern.net/article/optophonic-reading/. Co-authored by Chan, Mills, and Sayers and published in Amodern 8 ("Translation-Machination"), edited by Christine Mitchell, Rita Raley. Includes historical audio digitized by Mara Mills and braille letters transcribed by Shafeka Hashash.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NoDerivatives
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