From the play to the novel, including weekly magazines, many people cannot access it. We think of course of the visually impaired or the blind, but it is also the case with other disabilities or dyslexic schoolchildren. And if the Books read have multiplied on the internet, the association of voice donors from the sound libraries in France offers a free service. Lot-et-Garonnais, and part of the Gers, can thus benefit from the national network via the antenna based in Agen.
“The association brings together in France around 110 sound libraries,” explains President Bernard Janssens. In the department, there are approximately 30 active voices and a dozen volunteer administrators. We relay recordings from a national file of nearly 4,000 dematerialized titles, with books to download, but we also offer our own CD records for people who ask us. »»
A free service
The service is free, but as the association benefits from copyright exemption, it is necessary to provide a medical certificate attesting to its problems or its handicap to take advantage of it, which concerns a hundred people in Lot-et -Garonne. “We carry out our own recordings, for example, for schoolchildren, because such a teacher can work on a very specific version of a text, or on books accompanied by an educational file. »»
Always looking for voice donors, the vice-president, Monique Atja, stresses that “each recording must meet a quality charter and meet certain technical criteria. I am responsible for controlling the results. And it's a real work, not a simple pleasure to read: we read for others. For a book of philosophy by Gaston Bachelard, Bernard Janssens spent sixty hours of recording, against five to six for a short novel.
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