Blind People Use Keen Sense Of Hearing To Make Mobile Phone Ring Tones And Music Files

Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent

Manila, Philippines (AHN) - An institution for the blind called the Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration and Empowerment in Manila, Philippines is encouraging its members to use their keen sense of hearing to make mobile phone ring tones and music files for videoke machines.
ATRIEV president Tony Llanes said that despite their handicap, these blind people excel using their sense of hearing to write music files in midi format, to emulate versions of the original songs. These are then converted by a PC using a sequencing software and a keyboard synthesizer.
Four blind people are manning the midi file converters, said Llanes.
According to him, a company which makes and distributes the midi files, has outsourced some of its production to ATRIEV to determine if visually-impaired individuals can do the job.
The company is a content provider that sells its midi files to karaoke machine makers, particularly the popular Magic Sing karaoke microphone.
He said, "The quality of work is very good especially since blind people can be more attuned to the instruments within a song and select the appropriate sequence for the midi version. However, we we're still working on how to increase the production turnaround time."
Currently, ATRIEV can complete writing midi files is 10 days per song, but the requirements of the company is only three days.
But Llanes is offering hope that they could improve the speed of their production. "It used to be 21 days especially when we started, but gradually it became 18 days and then 10 days. We're trying to make it to four days to emulate a song."
He said that ATRIEV has proven that even blind people can be productive members of the community. "Their sense of hearing compensates for their inability to see."
Copyright © All Headline News - All rights reserved.