Latest By
Category:
Armor
Artificial
Intelligence
Biology
Clothing
Communication
Computers
Culture
Data Storage
Displays
Engineering
Entertainment
Food
Input Devices
Lifestyle
Living Space
Manufacturing
Material
Media
Medical
Miscellaneous
Robotics
Security
Space Tech
Spacecraft
Surveillance
Transportation
Travel
Vehicle
Virtual
Person
Warfare
Weapon
Work
 |
Comments on BookTrack Adds Sound To Books
I really don't think this is a very good idea. Readers? (Read
the complete story)
| "One of the reasons I love to read is that my imagination can supply the background sounds and effects... I find extraneous sounds distracting." (Dewtey 9/2/2011 5:49:23 AM) |
| "I agree, adding sound to books is like those annoying internet ads that don't shut up. I can see sound effects for audio books, but most people perfer silence when reading. " (Gatomon41 9/2/2011 6:20:01 AM) |
| "It's not quite the same as a pure-text story, but the webcomic Nahast has music that you can download and play, that's supposed to be used as background music for certain portions of the comic. I thought it was very well done, and definitely added to the experience, but then again it was for a comic, not just a book, and it was just music not other sound effects." (Ashley 9/2/2011 7:07:34 AM) |
| "For those who wish to check it out, you'll recieve an error page when you do because the site has been changed. Follow the link to the "old extras page" and you'll be able to find the music." (Ashley 9/2/2011 7:14:42 AM) |
| "Check out the BookTracker site." (Bill Christensen 9/2/2011 6:22:45 PM) |
| "The nosoundplease option ought to perdure as long as most of the more obdurate geezers.
It could be better when automatic "talking" interpretative software - or incipient AI - comes along.
Better yet when the illustration at the top becomes the artistic visualization of the dynamiic interpretation of the text. Rendered by the AI according to your preferences in style, actors, etc., - accompanying your eyes and brainwaves via galvanic skin response. Or simple headband. Or multipurpose "health" implant.
Just do it right. Without ads. That would be a civilization-killer. But, that's what renegade techs are for, after all." (Holdtheanions 9/4/2011 5:56:36 PM) |
| "I can see ambient noise for setting a mood. This really fits better with audiobooks than e-readers, though. The last time I had theme music with a book, it played a chime when it was time to turn the page." (Joe the Rat 9/6/2011 11:31:19 AM) |
Get more information on BookTrack Adds Sound To Books
Leave a comment:
Tediously, spammers have returned; if you have a comment, send it to bill at this site (include the story name) and I'll post it.
More Articles
Robotic Barber Programmed With a Number of Styles
'He found a barber shop which, he thought, would be good for an idle hour.'
Humanoid Boxing Robot KO's Opponent - It's A Knockout!
'Thirty rounds of fighting is tough work. Even for machines.'
Caterpillar Electric Mining Loader Not Yet Ready For Moon
'...the excavations were already in progress, for he saw gray slopes of rubble.'
Centipede Robots Down On The Farm
'...the walking mills of Puffy Products began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.'
Anthropic's Claude AI Creates Legal Citation From Whole Cloth
'Here is a Clerk that would work incessantly, and neither eat, sleep, want payment, or grumble.'
Students Vie For Lunar Regolith Mining Robot Prize
'About time you got here,' the astronaut said.
'They Erased My Memory' Says Ariana Grande
'...using a neutralizing electronic impulse.'
Solitary Black Hole Wanders In Space
'...the Hole is something like a vortex or a whirlpool?'
Spaceplane From Virgin Atlantic
'ZARNAK, YOU'RE TO COMMAND A SCOUTING EXPEDITION --- FIND OUT WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!'
DARPA Wants 'Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures'
'These are your rudimentary seed packages... Some will combine in place to form more complicated structures.'
Robot Hand Creeps Along, Separate From It's Owner
'The crawling... object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...'
Taikonauts Exercise In China's Tiangong Space Station
'Joe got out the gravity-simulator harnesses...'
Korean Exoskeleton Suit F1 Helps You Put It On
'Better late than never.'
Have AI Researchers Given Up On 'Bio-Babies'?
'You couldn't have the capstone without the pyramid to hold it up.'
Bunker Busters and Bore-Pellets
'The first revelation of the new Soviet bore-pellets.'
'Spikeless' Brand Swizzle Stick Detects Spiked Drinks
'the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers...'
Heart Patches Grown In The Lab Repair Hearts
I'm hoping that this procedure becomes a normal part of medical practice!
Humanoid Robots Spotted In Homes Performing Household Chores
'... nothing was perfected until M. Pantalon announced the completion of his automatic valet.'
Musk Proposes Sites For Martian Cities
'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'
Bambot Open Source Cheap Delivery Robot
'Not since the time he rewired the delivery robot...'
