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Let Accessibility Solutions Group Create Your Commercial Quality Audio Transcriptions!

Accessibility Solutions Group offers a full range of professional quality accessible audio services ranging from narration, text to speech transcription, foreign language transcription, and audio books.

The Professional Way To Make Audio Accessible For Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

Accessibility Solutions Group’s audio recording and transcription services offer a wide variety of benefits:

Professional human audio and human-quality synthetic speech options
Industry recognized image description guidelines and conventions
Multimedia delivery of content such as downloads for PC, Mac, and iOS devices
Fully accessible electronic materials with synchronized text and speech
Foreign Language Translations with human-read audio
The latest digital audio software and mastering equipment
Professional Accessibility Solutions recording studios
Subject matter experts covering specialized areas and foreign languages

Text to Speech / Synthetic Voice audio transcription Recordings

Our Text to Speech / Synthetic Voice audio transcription Recordings provide more options to our clients.

For reduced pricing options, a computer generated synthetic voiced audio recording of your materials may be an alternate option for your audio transcription needs.
Our team prepares your files so that they can be read correctly through our voice recognition software or programs. This process includes tagging images in text with long or short descriptions as needed by the client and following our description conventions and guidelines.

The Six Guiding Principles

While describing figures can get pretty complicated, there are a few general principles you should know. Our six guiding principles are:

Be Concise— In nearly all cases, briefer is better. While we’ll always make sure that all of the academically-important information in each figure is transcribed, we also want to exclude the inessential, avoid repetition, and take great care to limit the overall length.
Be Grammatical—Take care to avoid errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Be Organized—The more complex a figure is, the more organized we have to be in our approach to describing it.
Be Consistent—Use the same terms and phrasing to describe similar features within figures.
Be Clear—Avoid ambiguity and vagueness.
Consider the Context—Think about why each figure was included in its book.

Accessibility Solutions Group Audio Book Production

The Accessibility Solutions Accessible Audio Book product serves as the read-aloud format of your text documents. Our audio book production is suitable for anyone who specifies an audio format and complies with 504 and 508 reading standards.

Accessibility Solutions reading standards are the hallmark standards and followed worldwide. Members of the Accessibility Solutions team were members of the DAISY Consortium, which develops, maintains and promotes international DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) Standards. DAISY digital talking books offer the benefits of regular audio book recording, but DAISY titles include page and heading navigation. The Custom Accessible Products & Solutions Team can use these same standards to create audio book recordings to meet your needs.

Reading Standards

Our Audio versions are developed, in part, according to standards and specifications outlined in The Art and Science of Audio Book Production published by the national Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (West, 1995), a division of the Library of Congress, and the National Digital Audio Reading Conventions developed by Accessibility Solutions, rev.2008.

Narration Production Standards

Accessibility Solutions’ audio book recordings follow certain narration production standards. Most importantly:

Voice: The most important attributes of the voice are acoustical, strength, and stamina. The voice must have good clarity and be free of any acoustical characteristic that might become a distraction. It must have strength sufficient to generate sound levels necessary to achieve clean, clear recordings of the voice. Stamina must be sufficient for the duration of a recording session with no audible tiring and no audible degradation in narration effectiveness.
Speech: Speech must be clear, easily understood, and free of any elements that might become a distraction.
Language: The most important attributes of language, with respect to narration, are in-depth knowledge of and fluency in the language in which the text is printed.
Narration Skill: Good narration requires an ability to achieve a level of verbal performance that conveys the style mood, tempo, and sense of the text to the listener. Equally important is the ability to maintain consistent narration style throughout a recording session and to maintain continuity of that style from session to session, and from version to version.
Accuracy of Pronunciation and Narration:
- The spoken text must be a word-for-word rendition (read as written) of the printed text, and the importance of accuracy in pronunciation and narration cannot be overstated.
- Correct pronunciation in a recorded book is the equivalent of correct spelling in a print book. Pronunciation must be appropriate to the style and period of the text and to the nature of the characters. Proper names, foreign words, and phrases in a foreign language must be pronounced with accuracy and delivered with naturalness without breaking the rhythm of narration.
- We work with clients to develop style and pronunciation guides to customize the end result, and insure consistency and standardization from cycle to cycle.

Ensuring Quality

All narrator candidates must pass an audition to be qualified as a Accessibility Solutions audio book narrator. Top and industry standard recording equipment is used, and all media formats (CDs, mp3s, .wavs, etc.) produced will be reviewed in our multiple channel quality control process before release to client.

Formats and Delivery

After the Master copy has been approved, final format can be created and delivered. Additional copies can be duplicated as necessary.

If needed, braille labels and artwork/ print track listings can be provided depending on client needs and budget allowance.

Accessibility Solutions can manage delivery and distribution to and for client.

We aim to have a truly customizable experience for the client.