Not exact matches
Last year, researchers in Finland and Canada found that patients in the early stages of stroke recovery who listened to their choice of music
experienced improved verbal memory and attention compared
with patients who listened to
audio books or no recordings.
Waterford expanded and relaunched Curriculet
with an innovative and unique External Reader feature that allows students to have the digital learning
experience Singer envisioned whether they are using digital text, traditional physical
books, or
audio books.
Project Gamma will provide
audio enhancements to Marvel comics in the form of a soundtrack or other
audio cues and will only be available for select comics; in the CBR interview, Alonso allows that he was skeptical at first but added, «Who out there hasn't had that moment when you've been reading a comic
book with your iPod on or the radio on, and you found that the music has changed your reading
experience?»
The opportunity
book apps bring is allowing publishers and authors the ability to create a new reading
experience, that entwines the core story
with interactive elements such as
audio, video and interactive games.
At a time when other e-readers allow blind people to read letter by letter or word by word if needed, through Braille or
audio, the Amazon reading
experience is no better than listening to a
book recorded on an old cassette tape
with no navigation features.»
They have partnered
with Book Track, to add sound effects into four
audio titles to provide a more immersive
experience.
In the Classroom: Guide students in discussing the
experience of reading or listening to an excerpt of the
book read aloud in contrast
with hearing a professional
audio adaptation of the
book.
Utilizing features like videos,
audio clips, live streaming of social events associated
with the
book, and even gaming, the innovative process will help authors and publishers offer an even richer
experience to their readers.
While enhanced ebooks incorporate unheard of amounts of full - color graphics and video files to make the tablet reading
experience interactive, companies like Cathedral Rock Publishing have been writing and producing soundtracks to go along
with typical ebooks, allowing readers to tap a play button at various points throughout the text and even purchase the
audio soundtrack to enjoy outside of the
book.
And
with Whispersync technology, you can switch seamlessly between the e-
book and
audio book for an immersive
experience.
I was leery of narrators
with little
audio book experience who didn't want to take a chance
with royalty split, or who listed their fee as «Call for details.»
For authors wanting to get creative
with their childen's
books, how - to or even fiction, Blurb has announced a new version of its easy - to - use eBook editor that allows authors to add video and
audio to create a vivid, multi-dimensional storytelling
experience on the iPad.
On the way to Telluride and back we listened to two
audio books in the car — one (which shall remain nameless) highlighted the very worst aspects of the
audio book experience (wooden narration revealing a badly written novel in all its horror...) and we gave that one up after three discs; the second (thankfully) displayed all the wonderful elements associated
with listening to a great
book on CD.
So (after
experiencing the full range of emotions yesterday) rest assured we're going to carry on making a super simple
book creation tool that works for all grades on all devices,
with awesome classroom features like
audio recording, comics and «read to me».
The Yoga
Book features Dolby Atmos sound, and
with dual stereo speakers there is nothing disappointing about the
audio experience.