In a prepared statement for this new partnership, Calibre’s CEO Anthony Kemp is quoted, pointing out that the RealSAM functionality can help the charity “provide our audiobooks in homes across the country as we strive to create a more inclusive and accessible publishing industry, and to keep books open to all.”Īnd speaking for RealSAM, the UK country manager Louise Humphreys is quoted, talking of the pleasure of adding “so many of the country’s leading sight loss organizations to our platform and assist in making their information more accessible to blind people. Search hierarchy, in other words, functions on the system by voice command. For example, a user can search for a book by asking first for its genre, then its author, then its title.

In explaining how the all-voice-command tech of RealSAM provides an advantage, the charity’s people point out that the service uses “building questions” to take commands.

“Parents looking for resources for children who are blind or have visual impairments can use more than 3,000 audiobooks specifically for children and young adults, including Key Stage 1-4, GCSE, and A-Level texts to assist with studies.” In a statement to the news media from Calibre’s offices in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, we read, “Subscribers to the platform will get access to the latest Calibre Audio book releases and existing collection, divided into 69 book categories including: classics biographies crime, and popular fiction. In having as many as 27,000 books-as well as coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic information podcasts and updates from many UK charities-available through the RealSAM offering, Calibre points out how much it ups audiobooks’ accessibility when they’re available through smart speaker systems, which of course is what RealSAM is. Today’s news from the organization (March 9) is that it has partnered with a company called RealSAM, which produces products for the blind and visually impaired such as the “In Your Pocket” cellphone that’s fully voice controlled-none of that stabbing around on the screen that so many of us sighted people do. The program services listeners in Marrakesh Treaty countries. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | ‘To Keep Books Open to All’ Our Publishing Perspectives readers will remember that we touched on the accessibility work in December of the United Kingdom’s charity program called Calibre Audio for readers who have print disabilities.

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