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a hobby of mine is narrating wikipedia articles for the visually impaired and people who are on the road a lot etc. looking for requests or suggestions for articles that yall find interesting. (self.Blind)
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AutisticPearl 3 points 2y ago
Hi, I've got a couple of suggestions the first of which being married to anything Disney related Disney history is very extensive, and if you get deep enough and do it there are a lot of pages and it would be very fun, also I love the other thing I would like to suggest theme parks that's also something useful because I find myself as a visually impaired person listening to be Patisserie while I'm working sometimes and being able to listen to the Wikipedia articles might be useful. Also, another suggestion I have, try some of the American Greetings Wikipedia articles, or articles about things about Saturday morning cartoons like Transformers GI Joe My Little Pony actually you should just do Hasbro was a hole they probably have a a very long Wikipedia article answers Mattel and Barbie that was a good one I'd also suggest covering PBS, and PBS kids because both of those might have very long can a few articles as well it might be useful and or interesting do you mind sharing a link to what you're talking about when you say you do audio recordings of the Wikipedia articles it might help you give you a great ideas, I love reading to Wikipedia occasionally especially if I'm looking for something but I'm not sure what it is I'm looking for, but in all honesty I just want to be able didn't know what you doing because maybe I can offer advice as to what to record, or advice on how to improve because I have suggestions.
737257 3 points 2y ago
thank you SO much for these suggestions! its a funny coincidence because my most recent narration is actually about theme parks haha. these are all great ideas! i wish i could show you my work but that would be against the rules of this subreddit, as self advertisement isnt allowed :( im doing my best to get better at narration, though!
AutisticPearl 1 points 2y ago
Do you mind sending me a DM with it then? Then it wouldn't be so ever typing I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear what you do but I don't know where to find it and there's probably other people they do what you do so I don't want to get mixed up. And also something else you might consider covering retro technology, because I like retro Tech and one of the things I do is read up on it thinks things like a Seeburg that's one of those machines that used to play background music in grocery stores, or victrolas or phonographs things like that because that's useful. Also, think about covering educational topics or topics that can be used in the educational sent not just informational because then a student could easily use this to help them study for the learn a new skill.
MildlyAgreeable 1 points 2y ago
How do you upload them? I speak to a blind gentleman every Wednesday for a charity and he seems to be really down with the boredom. He’s big into languages so I’m at a loss of what to recommend.
737257 1 points 2y ago
big into languages? what do you mean? im not visually impaired, but im on the road a LOT. my personal favorite thing to listen to are the following youtube channels: trey the explainer, henry the paleo guy, north 02, stephen milos
ive been oddly into paleolithic anthropology and stuff like that. when you said "languages" i assume you mean like the history of human language?
ive been oddly into paleolithic anthropology and stuff like that. when you said "languages" i assume you mean like the history of human language?
Real_Space_Captain 1 points 2y ago
Ooh I love all the pop culture suggestions from the other person, also would recommend conspiracy theories. That might be popular with those outside the blind community as well.
I’m also a history nerd, especially anything related to the industrial revolution, however, I feel like WW2 articles would be even more popular.
Thanks for doing this, better to hear someone’s voice than a computer one!
I’m also a history nerd, especially anything related to the industrial revolution, however, I feel like WW2 articles would be even more popular.
Thanks for doing this, better to hear someone’s voice than a computer one!
737257 1 points 2y ago
Exactly. I got so tired of the robot voice mispronouncing etc... I've got a lot of american war content already in the works :) I will be doing videos on most puedosciences, and so conspiracy theories is a great idea! Thanks a lot
FantasticGlove 1 points 2y ago
Hi. This is cool. I love narration. Can you please pm me your channel?
BenandGracie -1 points 2y ago
I have a screen reader. Why would I need this?
737257 2 points 2y ago
i summarize the interesting bits of wikipedia articles and paraphrase them in an easy to understand and natural way. screen readers mispronounce stuff, get caught up on punctuation, and are very straining on the ears in my opinion.
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