In this piece of work i will be talking about the different audio guides that can be from museums to art galleries but firstly i am going to talk about the history of audio guides.
The history of an audioguide begins in 1931, the american congress launched the very first talking book program, this was a way to help people who were blind this carried on until 1932. In the year 1933 a man going by the name of J.P. Harrington recorded something called oral histories in north america and was placed on an aliminium disc, so by 1935 the congrees approved of free mailings of these guides to blind citizens. So in the year 1992 the library for the blind and challenged produced millions of these audioguides and they were sold to more than 700,000 blind and physicaly challenged people in america.
Secondly, where can you buy audiobooks from? with audiobooks you can buy them from amazon but they come in compact discs so they are able to be heard on devices such as the apple iphones, ebooks and the i pad i think. Another place where you can buy audiobooks from are the from the apple store i think, on this website you can purchase audiobooks and audiopod casts that are about famous people like stephen fry for example or new books that have come out like the book by tom clancy called dead or alive.
The statistics of an audiobook, with the statistics of an audiobook i have been looking at websites such as amazon and i have been looking at the customer reviews on the website and the product that i am looking at is an audiobook called miranda harts joke shop (bbc audio), and this product has had 18 reviews and has been given 5 stars by 14 people over customers have said that the product was fantastic and the best audiobook that the customers have heard, and other reviews from customers are also complementing miranda by saying that she is very very funny.
My third, point is talking about audiobooks in museums and art galleries and how much they cost, firstly i am going to talk about non commerical spoken recordings and an example of this is Henry cowell collection of non commerical recordings from 1940 to 1953 and the location to this is Rodgers and hammerstein archives of recorded sounds (for more information go to http://www.nypl.org/archives/3351), secondly the benefits of listening to an audiobook in a museum and art galleries is that you learn about different paintings if in an art gallery so instead of being told basic facts of that painting, an example of this could be when i went to the tate modern with my media class to use audiobooks and audioguides. and the benefits for audiobooks for people that are blind is that where they cant read or see the words they can hear them with the assistance of someone reading the audioguide or if it is a story that is being read to them.
In conclusion to this i believe that some audiobooks are different from others because as i have just said some audiobooks are made for assistance for people that are blind, and i believe that they are relivent in big art galleries or museums so instead of buying books to read whilst walking around one of these places you can walk and listen to these audiobooks which is much easier to use.
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