Friday, February 28, 2020

Black History Month Binge Blog? Rap challenges!

#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #MakingHistory Now
#GodzillaChallenge
follow the hashtag for some fun versions including a child who totally gets it even though the results have little to do with the actual words.

Content warning: hip hop lyrics. Reference to numerous disturbing topics
Eminem Twitter video link

Yeah. RantWoman gets it. Eminem doing rap is controversial, another in a long line of cultural appropriation / white artists making money on something that started in the African American community.

RantWoman does not dispute that which is why the question mark about a Binge Blog item.

RantWoman could also do more thoughtful research about hiphop / rap challenges. RantWoman gathers that these are a thing, like tongue twisters or auctioneering or interpreter mumble tests where language professionals get to pull meaning out of all kinds of horrible audio situations

However, this bit came to RantWoman in the context of blind computer users many of whom including RantWoman set our audio book readers and screen readers blazingly fast. RantWoman can attest though that she always finds actual human voices easier to make sense of at high speeds than electronic voices.

And one more moment of blindness tourism: RantWoman would love the option of setting screen readers at different speeds for different languages.

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