Radio Reading Service

A Radio Reading Service ( German: Radio reading service, also English: Reading Service for the Blind ) is a nonprofit service on the radio, which broadcasts distributed specifically for blind and partially sighted people. Probably but also inform many people with a reading disability and illiteracy in this way about the contents in the current printed media. Be pre- read local and supra-local newspapers and magazines as well as fiction and non-fiction.

Most of these services are freely available. Some require proof of the existence of a visual impairment to use.

Carrier

Typically, the range is produced by volunteers and broadcast on a public radio station. Such services are there, especially in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, the Netherlands and Japan. Important carriers are the American International Association of Audio Information Services ( IAAIS ) and its subsidiary organizations. In many cases, this also interact with libraries.

Similar offerings on the radio have remained rare in Germany. They are limited to a few shows in independent radio stations. Visually impaired are supplied in these countries generally have the libraries for the blind with the media.

Technology

The broadcast will be simulcast in the U.S. mostly about the sender of the Public Radio. Some services are also disseminated from universities that operate often own radio station.

It will be sent usually via a subcarrier of FM main frequency on which you can hear a station. The reception takes place via a special receiver that is permanently set to this sub-carrier. In part, the service can also be heard via the normal FM signal, often as a night program.

In the meantime, listen to the world many offers over the internet via live stream. Partly this special audio players and radios offered to help the listeners to find the live stream on the internet. Some stations also offer online archives that make older programs to be downloaded.

History

Currently, there is to be in the U.S., about 100 such deals. The first Radio Reading Service there was the Minnesota Radio Talking Network, which was founded in 1969. 1971 was followed by the audio -reader service in Lawrence, Kansas.

The first purely Internet - based service was Assistive Media. It was founded in 1996 and provides podcasts ago, which can be downloaded free from the Internet.