Audio Books Research Articles

Pengembangan Media Audio Pop-Up Book Terhadap Unggah-Ungguh Bahasa Jawa Siswa SMP Negeri 2 Pare

Learning Javanese is included in learning ethics or politeness values, so it is very important to teach it in the world of education. As a tool to attract students' attention and want to learn Javanese, namely by developing learning media in the form of audio pop-up books. This research aims to explain: (1) the process of developing audio pop-up book, (2) the quality of audio pop-up book, (3) student responses to audio pop-up book learning media as a learning medium for uploading Javanese language material at SMP Negeri 2 Pare. This research uses research and development (R&D) methods with a four-D (4D) development model. The resulting data is in the form of oral and written. The data collection techniques used were observation, questionnaires and interviews. The instruments used were observation sheets, questionnaire sheets, and interview sheets. The results of this research are the product manufacturing process starting from needs analysis, product manufacturing plans, to the results of product development. to the final product. Validation from experts received a total percentage of 93.4% and total student responses received a percentage of 91.9% which was included in the "very suitable" category for use.

Integrating sound effects and background music in Robotic storytelling – A series of online studies across different story genres

Social robots as storytellers combine advantages of human storytellers – such as embodiment, gestures, and gaze – and audio books – large repertoire of voices, sound effects, and background music. However, research on adding non-speech sounds to robotic storytelling is yet in its infancy. The current series of four online studies investigates the influence of sound effects and background music in robotic storytelling on recipients’ storytelling experience and enjoyment, robot perception, and emotion induction across different story genres, i.e. horror, detective, romantic and humorous stories. Results indicate increased enjoyment for romantic stories and a trend for decreased fatigue for all genres when adding sound effects and background music to the robotic storytelling. Of the four genres examined, horror stories seem to benefit the most from the addition of non-speech sounds. Future research should provide guidelines for the selection of music and sound effects to improve the realization of non-speech sound-accompanied robotic storytelling. In conclusion, our ongoing research suggests that the integration of sound effects and background music holds promise for enhancing robotic storytelling, and our genre comparison provides first guidance of when to use them.

Hörbuch. Methoden, Konzepte, Forschungsfragen

Abstract The essay examines methodological-theoretical challenges of current audiobook research and discusses alternative approaches to the audiobook. It proposes a sign-theoretical and media-technical perspective on the audio book in terms of both production, and reception aesthetics.

A three-dimensional audiobook design based on the Luo Yue culture of the Zhuang people, “Book Travel in Huashan”

The illustration design of this three-dimensional book is re-innovated based on the “North Sea Water Color Painting” style. The design features are in line with the development laws of children’s psychology. With rich colors, complex illustrations, wonderful storylines, and interactive book forms, it also Follow the development rules and learning characteristics of young children to create theme stories, and then carefully study the graphic symbols, summarize and refine the characteristics and essence of the Huashan blessing elements, extract and modernize the “human pattern totem”, and finally Restore the real characters and reserve high-quality picture book resources for preschool children who like Zhuang traditional culture, which is conducive to the promotion and inheritance of local intangible cultural heritage. In the last part, the results of the research on Huashan rock painting graphics and design application ideas are finally attributed to the creative practice of three-dimensional audio book design, completing the entire process from theory to practical application exploration, and then enhancing the national confidence and identity of the Zhuang people.

Pdf to Voice by Using Deep Learning

Audio books are extraordinary for people who, like most people, want to listen to themselves read. These can't be bought and stored within the library at domestic. Audiobooks are a notable manner to rest your eyes and take a damage from the steady stimulation of virtual gadgets. Others as a time shop. For instance, hold studying books even as doing exceptional responsibilities on the equal time. Not only will this lessen the issues of millennials, but it's going to also be a valuable tool for lowering human being’s visibility. The ability to transform any content material into an audiobook is a true present of humanity. Our technology may be used to develop such gadgets. Text-to-speech and other recitation applications are extensively used to assist college students broaden studying comprehension abilities. The PDF to Audio System is a screen reader designed and developed for powerful audio verbal exchange. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has unique PDF documents as an open file format. Document layout is one of the handiest formats for digital conversation and facts change. This is very essential if we want to improve the accessibility of our readers' display screen by adding audio to our content material. Features from PDF files encompass hyperlinks and buttons, as well as audio and video documents. Multiple languages may be supported the use of PDF-to- audio generation, which lets in customers to hear text definitely (spoken).

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The Continuation of Traditional Chinese Culture in Education: A Case Study of Children's Original Picture Books

Under the call of the times for the inheritance and protection of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, children's cultural picture books provide new possibilities and innovative strategies for learning in the preschool stage. At the same time, in the context of digital education transformation, comprehensive analysis and combination of preschool cultural education and technology innovation and integration is the call of the new era, but also for the physical and mental development of young children and the cultivation of national pride has indelible significance. Therefore, this study focuses on children's cultural picture books, and innovates the form of point-to-point reading to explore the innovation and feasibility of its integration with cultural education, with the aim of providing new innovative forms and practical ways for cultural teaching for young children. The integration of culture and technology with audio cultural picture books and picture book teaching is not only a new attempt of digital teaching, but also an innovation to protect and pass on Chinese culture and to cultivate the cultural background of young children, which is of social and educational significance.

Lecturers’ Utilization of Electronic Instructional Media on Students’ Academic Performance in National Open University of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Study Center

The study investigated lecturers’ utilization of electronic instructional media on students’ academic performance in. National Open University of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Study Center. Three specific objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. This study adopted descriptive survey research. The population of the study was 27 lecturers of the National Open University of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Study Center. No sampling technique was used to achieve a sample size of 27 lecturers. The data collecting instrument for this study was a self-structured questionnaire titled “Lecturers’ Utilization of Electronic Instructional Media on Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire.” The instrument was structured using 4-point rating scale and was face and content validated by three experts in Departments of Educational Management and Measurement and Evaluation in Rivers State University. The instrument was tested for reliability using Cronbach Alpha statistics which yielded an average reliability index of 0.79. All the 27 copies of the questionnaire administered, were retrieved, and used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance with a critical value of ±1.96. Findings revealed that lecturers’ utilization of audio tape, internet, and electronic books in instructional delivery influences students’ academic performance in National Open University of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Study Center to a high extent. Based on the findings, it was recommended that more funds be provided by the government to make available audio tapes for free to students to enable them follow up on their taped lessons; government should provide free Wi-Fi services to enable both teachers and students get unlimited access to internet usage in National Open University of Nigeria for hitch-free instructional delivery and learning process and government should as a matter of urgency provide more electronic books in schools and ensure that they are accessible to students to enhance positive reading achievement for quality education.

Pragmatic effects on the sentence-final intonation of answered wh-in-situ questions in French

AbstractThe final intonation in French wh-in-situ questions is subject to much debate. Although a wide variety of final pitch movements has been observed, recent studies generally agree on a tendency for final rises. In our study, we analysed the answered wh-in-situ questions (e.g. Tu veux savoir quoi ? – Tout ! ‘What do you want to know? – Everything!’) in a corpus of eleven audio books.For our analysis, we used perceptual classifications by three annotators. Annotations included not only the perception of final intonational movement (‘rise’/‘fall’/‘plateau’), but also string-related (wh-lexeme; ‘wh-word final’/‘wh-word non-final’) and pragmatic (‘information-seeking’/‘non-information-seeking’; ‘hierarchical’/‘non-hierarchical’) features.Our results show that a) even string-identical wh-in-situ questions can be pronounced with rises as well as falls and b) pragmatics affect the final pitch movement. If the speaker is hierarchically superior to the hearer, rises are less likely, and questions that are answered by the same speaker are even associated with a non-rising default. However, our data also suggest that pragmatic functions cannot be directly mapped to pitch movement. Information-seeking questions can be pronounced with all three final intonations and speakers may even choose opposite patterns for the same interrogative in the same context.

Academic Performance and Well-Being of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: (With Reference to Visually Impaired Undergraduates in Sri Lanka)

All students living in the world should have an equal opportunity to get a proper education. Education is one of the most important factors that determine one’s future well-being. Currently, special attention is being paid to the education of students with special needs around the world. As a result, the facilities and new technical knowledge required for people with special needs are expanding. Among students with special needs, visually impaired students face many problems in education. The primary purpose of this research was to identify the problems faced by visually impaired students in higher education. Purposive sampling method was used to select students for the research. Sample consists of 74 visually impaired undergraduates studying at the universities of Sri Jayewardenepura, Colombo, Kelaniya, Jaffna, and Eastern university of Sri Lanka. The problems faced by visually impaired students were analyzed based on the information obtained through interviews, structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews (with 05 selected students). The main issue pointed out by all the students (100%) was the lack of books for them to use related for their study programs. This is the main reason for confining visually impaired students to a limited number of subject areas in university education. Also, past papers are not available in Braille or any accessible medium for them to refer prior to the examinations. Introducing new subjects or degree program that fit for their necessities and occupation opportunities, preparation of audio books to cover more subject areas and providing a training for students to use computers for examinations are the possible solutions for the academic well-being of visually impaired students. It is important to emphasize that providing equal opportunities alone is not sufficient; it is essential to offer required opportunities that meet their specific needs.

Can Tencent Music Entertainment Group's Acquisition of Lazy Audio Help It Establishes a Foothold in the Long-form Audio Market

Lazy Audio is a very successful platform in the long-form audio field which was established in 2012 and had become a leading audio book platform after many years of development. On January 15, 2021, Tencent Music Entertainment Group acquired Lazy Audio for 2.1 billion yuan. After researching the strategic goals and significance of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the article believes that the acquisition is to gain a foothold in the long-form audio market and to supplement its own "business ecosystem" in the sound industry. The article also analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the acquisition and believes that it is a successful one. After the completion of the acquisition, Tencent Music Entertainment Group needs to pay attention to the future development direction of the platform. Lazy Audio is a vertical audio book platform that has some shortcomings compared to comprehensive audio book platforms. So, in the future, it can try to transform. And Tencent Music Entertainment Group also needs to pay attention to copyright related issues, and related regulations and policies.

The Role of Audio Books and Video Books in English Language Teaching (ELT

The integration of audio books and video books into English Language Teaching (ELT) has transformed traditional language learning methods. This research paper explores the evolving role of these multimedia resources in ELT, investigating their benefits, challenges, and pedagogical implications. Through an in-depth analysis of relevant literature, this study examines how audio books and video books enhance listening skills and comprehension, facilitate vocabulary acquisition, cultural immersion and contextual understanding, fosters motivation and engagement, caters to diverse learning styles, and provide authentic language exposure. Furthermore, the paper discusses effective pedagogical strategies for integrating these resources into ELT classrooms. By synthesizing theoretical insights and practical examples, this paper highlights the potential of audio books and video books to create immersive language learning experiences that bridge the gap between classroom instruction and real-world language use.

Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research

Learners need to know a considerable number of words to function in a second or foreign language. To help increase their word knowledge, learners are encouraged to engage in activities that provide a rich source of vocabulary like listening to music and audio books, and watching films, television, and video. In many of these types of activities, learners can listen to and read ‘matched’ content (i.e., text is both written and aural). For example, viewing television programs and films is often accompanied by subtitles that closely adhere to the auditory input. While reading and listening to matched content may be a fairly common experience, we have little understanding of how comprehenders process the two sources of information, nor how the addition of audio changes word reading or might impact word learning. Eye-tracking provides a means of measuring the effort associated with processing words, yet very few studies have explicitly investigated written-word processing while listening and even fewer have examined this in the context of word learning. The technology allows researchers to synchronize eye-movements in reading to an auditory text, but requires technical know-how. The goal of this research methods paper is to provide methodological and technical guidance on the use of eye-tracking in reading-while-listening with an emphasis on investigating vocabulary learning and processing.

Electronic Information Resources of Libraries of Higher Education Branch Institutions in Ukraine During the Quarantine Restrictions and Martial Law

The aim of the article is to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in the provision of electronic information resources.
 Research methods. The study used the following methods: synthesis, complexity, comparative analysis, comprehensiveness of knowledge, information diagnostics, generalization, abstraction, systematization, as well as statistical, survey-analytical and benchmarking methods; systemic, functional, social and communication, critical and constructive approaches.
 Scientific novelty consists in determining the set of electronic information resources provided by libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law, which allows to establish a leader library among book collections of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine, the experience of which is necessary to analyze and spread to other book collections.
 Main conclusions. Websites of libraries in higher education branch institutions of Ukraine were studied. A comparative analysis of electronic information resources of libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law was carried out. The research made it possible to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in providing users with information resources during quarantine and martial law. It turned out to be the library of Kyiv University named after Borys Grinchenko. The library provides its users with a number of remote electronic information resources: an electronic catalog, an institutional repository, audio books, virtual exhibitions, a new accession in the form of presentations, full-text collections of rare publications and B. Grinchenko’s works, a test access to scientometric platforms and databases: Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Bentham Science, ScienceDirect, a corporate electronic library Alpina Digital. It is appropriate for the leading library to share its experience with other book collections.

ЛІТЕРАТУРНІ ПОДКАСТИ В МЕДІАПРОСТОРІ: ТЕМАТИЧНО-ЖАНРОВІ ПРІОРИТЕТИ

<p><strong><em>The purpose </em></strong><em>of the study is to trace the specifics of podcasts on literary topics, clarify the peculiarities of their functioning in Ukrainian media resources, and determine their themes and the most common genre forms of representation.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology. </em></strong><em>To study the chosen topic and solve the set tasks, such research methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, monitoring, and observation were chosen. The method of qualitative content analysis and statistical methods were also adopted. In particular, through monitoring and observation methods, an extensive array of podcasts dedicated to literature was identified, and the descriptive way allowed for the representation of their specificity. The method of qualitative content analysis was applied to identify the topics of literary podcasts, where the categories and units of study were the verbal elements of the content; with the help of statistical observation and grouping methods, we managed to summarize information about the genre priorities of podcasts about literature.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results. </em></strong><em>The specificity of literary podcasts functioning has been identified, and the main mobile applications and media resources on which literature-related podcasts can be listened to have been determined (various podcasting platforms, websites for promoting reading and selling paper and audio books, YouTube channels and library websites, online radio stations, and other media). The most well-known literary podcasts in the Ukrainian segment of the internet during their existence have been characterized, their content has been described, and the most popular genre forms of presentation have been determined.</em></p><p><strong><em>Scientific novelty. </em></strong><em>For the first time, information on Ukrainian literary podcasts has been summarized, the media resources where they can be listened to have been identified, and their topics and their genre forms of presentation have been determined.</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical meaning. </em></strong><em>The scientific article will be relevant primarily for specialists involved in the preparation and dissemination of literature podcasts: journalists and radio presenters, writers, literary critics, librarians, and all those who are interested in literature. In addition, the materials are valuable for the practical activities of future media workers. The attention to literary podcasts contributes to popularizing writers, their works, and literature in general.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words: </em></strong><em>podcast, podcasting, podcast platform, literary podcast, podcast genre.</em></p>

EIL based on research creation-projects that facilitate English learning and intercultural revitalization for Ecuadorian communities through the arts

UAProyectKids is an EFL community outreach action research project based on the creation of artistic and pedagogical material for learning the English language from Ecuador’s local intercultural experiences. It was implemented at an art’s public university in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where students from different artistic careers take English classes in order to graduate with a B1 level, but also to engage in transdisciplinary practice and creation with this foreign language. A collaborative methodological approach was used to determine how students should create these pedagogical resources while practicing their English in the process of creation throughout the semester. Results were measured by formative examinations and other instruments to record students’ perceptions on project based learning and collaborative sessions from the pedagogical innovation strategy.
 Furthermore, inter institutional cooperation and feedback enabled students to improve the quality of their projects, which included final products such as vocabulary flashcards, illustrated tales, audio books, and animated short films. Moreover, organized field trips to different communities and schools in the coastal and highland regions of Ecuador were able to guarantee the replication of the creative model for practicing English from relevant intercultural contexts that were worked with community members and children. This article is a must-read for any teacher or researcher interested in knowing about project-based learning experiences and its applications in the EFL field. It is also intended for institutions seeking to implement pedagogical innovations that help students awaken their collaborative learning by paying it forward to other learning communities.

Analysis of the of training and test data distribution for audio series classification

The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms for any given task largely depends on the training and test datasets. This manifests itself not only in the amount of data, but also in its content (that is, its relevance for the task at hand), as well as in its organization. Generally, the common approach is to split the dataset into training and testing sets to avoid model overfitting. In addition, to achieve better metrics for the selected criteria (accuracy, learning rate, etc.) of model performance, different ratios of training and test sets are used in the partitioning. The goal of this paper is to analyze methods of data set partitioning for use in training neural networks and statistical models. One of the reviewed methods, specifically the cross-validation method, was applied to a dataset developed from the LibriSpeach corpus, an open English speech corpus based on the LirbiVox project of voluntarily contributed audio books. The result of applying the selected data partitioning method on the selected data set is demonstrated.

What naturalistic stimuli tell us about pronoun resolution in real-time processing.

Studies on pronoun resolution have mostly utilized short texts consisting of a context and a target sentence. In the current study we presented participants with nine chapters of an audio book while recording their EEG to investigate the real-time resolution of personal and demonstrative pronouns in a more naturalistic setting. The annotation of the features of the pronouns and their antecedents registered a surprising pattern: demonstrative pronouns showed an interpretive preference for subject/agent antecedents, although they are described to have an anti-subject or anti-agent preference. Given the presence of perspectival centers in the audio book, this however confirmed proposals that demonstrative pronouns are sensitive to perspectival centers. The ERP results revealed a biphasic N400-Late Positivity pattern at posterior electrodes for the demonstrative pronoun relative to the personal pronoun, thereby confirming previous findings with highly controlled stimuli. We take the observed N400 for the demonstrative pronoun as an indication for more demanding processing costs that occur due to the relative unexpectedness of this referential expression. The Late Positivity is taken to reflect the consequences of attentional reorientation: since the demonstrative pronoun indicates a possible shift in the discourse structure, it induces updating of the discourse structure. In addition to the biphasic pattern, the data showed an enhanced positivity at frontal electrode sites for the demonstrative pronoun relative to the personal pronoun. We suggest that this frontal positivity reflects self-relevant engagement and identification with the perspective holder. Our study suggests that by using naturalistic stimuli, we get one step closer to understanding the implementation of language processing in the brain during real life language processing.

Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah. Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

With new means of communication related to recorded voices and mass-produced images aggressively coming to the forefront, modernist writers remained obsessed and haunted by their alienated, estranged, and disjunct selves reflected in meta-textual forms. Destroyed images of paper in modernist fiction and their connection to growing anxieties about the material form of textual matter provide the focus of Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg’s book Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print. The book explores premonitions of the ‘death of the paper’ debates well before the invention of the high-tech gadgets that fascinate, and some would say vex contemporary readers via virtual technologies in the digitized e-books and audio books. Having traced its roots to the late nineteenth century, Rosenberg connects anxieties about the imminent breakdown of print and printed matter to the epitome of high-modernist literary experimentation such as typified by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

APLIKASI BACA BUKU UNTUK TUNANETRA LOW VISION MENGGUNAKAN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION DAN TEXT TO SPEECH

Based on data from the Ministry of Social Affairs for 2022, the total number of blind people is 11,368 and low vision is 6,818 with a total of 18,186 blind people in Indonesia. As many as 21.9% of the total number of persons with disabilities are persons with disabilities who are in the effective period of obtaining proper education. On the other hand, educational facilities and infrastructure are not fully friendly to persons with disabilities. The Center for Development and Empowerment of Kindergarten and Special Education Educators and Education Personnel (PPPPTK and PLB), which is under the Ministry of Education and Culture, Research and Technology, recommends the use of assistive devices to help students who have visual impairments. Responding to these challenges, this application was developed to help read books or print media. The results of testing this application are easy to use because it has a simple appearance and there is an audio guide. It was found that the development of this innovative product is a user-friendly assistive application for the blind with the main features of Audio Guide Assistance, Auto Capture, Image to Speech, Audio book and Multiple Audio-page Grouping.