Infosound Charity Support

Infosound Media (Charity Support) is primarily for British talking newspapers and magazines, local sight loss charities, information services, radio

stations and any other charity or not-for-profit organisation providing services for vision-impaired people. It is separate from our own information

service that we provide direct to vision-impaired members of the public across Great Britain.

Infosound

Infosound is a small, independent, registered charity that produces impartial information on subjects

relating to living with sight loss for vision-impaired (blind and partially-sighted) people in England,

Scotland and Wales. Everything we produce is original and in audio; it is free, objective, non-commercial,

non-political and strictly impartial.

Using Infosound Audio Material

Only audio content on this Charity Support page of our web site may be downloaded and used by

a third party.

It is completely free to use, but may only be re-distributed by charitable or community-based organisations

providing information, in audio, to blind and partially-sighted people free of charge; specifically, it may not

be used for commercial or promotional purposes nor may it be associated with any form of advertising.

We neither ask nor expect to be credited as the source of our material you use. However, should you wish

to explain to your listeners the inclusion of Infosound material in your audio publication or programme or

should you feel inclined

to publicise the Infosound service to vision-impaired members of the public, relevant information can

be found in the Infosound Promotional Material and Scripts section below. Thank you.

There are no stipulations for using our audio material, except that none of our features may be edited,

changed or augmented in any way and they may only be heard by your listeners as they have been

downloaded and in such a way that they play all the way through, uninterrupted, exactly as produced by us.

The "may be heard" date should also be observed, please.

For those who are interested, we also have some technical information about our audio below.

Current downloadable Infosound Audio Articles

Here we list the latest audio articles that we currently have for you to download and use. In each case, the audio article's title is intended to give a description of

what it is about. It is worth pointing out that this selection of audio articles may be refreshed at least every few days, so it could be a good idea to check this page

fairly frequently.

• The different types of long cane tip for different uses

duration 6:20 | published on 18 Sep 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 23 Oct 2019

• Making the best use of lighting around the home

duration 8:47 | published on 15 Oct 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 19 Nov 2019

• Braille address book, pocket organiser and refills from RNIB

duration 3:33 | published on 10 Oct 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 14 Nov 2019

• A talking metric and imperial bathroom scale

duration 6:18 | published on 06 Oct 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 10 Nov 2019

• The challenges facing local talking newspapers and magazines

duration 5:00 | published on 02 Oct 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 06 Nov 2019

• The WayAround tag and scan labelling system using a standard smart phone

duration 7:33 | published on 28 Sep 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 02 Nov 2019

• Making effective and constructive complaints when facing access issues

duration 7:15 | published on 24 Sep 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 29 Oct 2019

• Professional care support for vision-impaired people when on holiday

duration 6:18 | published on 20 Sep 2019 | may be heard by your listeners until 25 Oct 2019

Technical Information

Each of our audio features is produced as a downloadable mp3 file. They are all compressed mono mp3 files at an 80Kbps constant bitrate and at a sampling rate

of 44.1KHz. This represents 8.8 to 1 compression. The audio is peak limited to -3dBm.

To download these files, left click on the item title. If the audio plays rather than downloads RIGHT click on item title and "save ... as ...". With each feature article

we give you its total duration, the date on which it was first produced and, importantly, the date after which it should not be heard by your listeners, since its content may be out of date, inaccurate or no longer relevant. With some items, we also mention geographic relevance.

Infosound Promotional Material and Scripts

We would be very grateful if you could promote Infosound to blind and partially-sighted people who might benefit from the free service we provide.

Thank you.

• Infosound general service audio trailer (mp3 / 2:52)

A promotional audio trailer explaining the Infosound service and the charity behind it.

• Infosound trailer script (PDF)

A promotional trailer script outlining the Infosound service for blind and partially-sighted people.

• Infosound Audio Noticeboard audio trailer (mp3 / 2:23)

A promotional audio trailer explaining how vison-impaired people can contribute to Infosound.

• Comment on Infosound audio trailer (mp3 / 1:48)

Encouraging vision-impaired people to let us know what they think of the Infosound service.

• Infosound service poster (PDF)

For downloading, (hopefully, enlarging) and displaying. Thank you.

• Infosound in brief (PDF)

A briefing document outlining the charity and its service for, maybe, explaining to clients.

• Broadcast summary flyer 1 (PDF)

Very brief summary of the broadcast service in portrait format for printing and distributing.

• Broadcast summary flyer 2 (PDF)

Very brief summary of the broadcast service in landscape format for printing and distributing.

• Listening to Infosound (PDF)

A brief explanation of the various ways in which, and devices on which, Infosound may be heard.

• Promoting yourself on Infosound (PDF)

A briefing on how we may be able to help any VI-related charity to publicise itslef.

A short script for reading at the start of an audio publication or programme featuring Infosound items.

• Full Infosound audio promotion (mp3 / 27:34)

An illustrated guide to the Infosound service and details of where and how to listen.

Infosound Promotional CDs

We have produced a promotional CD that aims to tell vision-impaired people about the free Infosound service. It lasts for a little under half an hour. On the CD we

explain about the mix of news and information we produce in audio and how listeners can contribute with their own comments, hints, tips

and items of information. We also list the various ways that the Infosound broadcast and its associated on-demand service, Infosound

Select, can be heard: on any phone, on Amazon voice-controlled devices, on our web site, on the British Wireless for the Blind

Fund's Sonata players, on their Bumblebee tablet and as a podcast. Much of what we produce can also be heard via Twitter.

If you know any blind or partially-sighted people who might benefit from hearing about us, you are welcome to request as many

of these CDs as you need. If you run a resource centre, you might want to keep a stock of them on display so anyone who visits

you can take one away with them. These CDs do not have to be returned.

This CD's audio can also be downloaded and distributed. It can be found above as "Full Infosound audio promotion".

To request free copies of the Infosound demonstration CDs, please email us at [email protected]