Now Successfully Improving Comprehension and Cognition with @Bookshare audiobooks while Overcoming Noise-Induced Anxiety at the same time!

Hello World! Today marks my successful completion of a 48 hour SCIENCE experiment in which I attempted self-improvements of my mental health while undergoing LOUD noise pollution! ☺️

This is when I successfully use SCIENCE to provide a beneficial solution for me by taking full advantage of the intimidation tactics being forcivly-used against me, for the sole purpose of extorting money from me. After deploying my countermeasures (headphones, earbuds & white noise generators), I have improved my abilities of comprehension & cognition, both of which, had been severely damaged when I became totally BLIND from being noise tortured for four consecutive years.

Beginning with DAISY-compliant eBooks from Bookshare.org downloaded into my book-reading apps, Voice Dream Reader (iOS) & Legere Reader (Android), with purchased text-to-speech (TTS) human-sounding synthesized voices, I initially began repairing my comprehension level, starting with 180 words per minute (wpm), and gradually increased to 600wpm over the span of several months.

Recently, I purchased stereo earbuds in addition to my BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones & a generic over-the-ear stereo headphones, for me to conduct a 48-hour SCIENCE experiment, to enclose the intermittent periods of LOUD noise torture, allowing me to reconfigure my white noise generators to earbuds. — I had to increase the volume level of “airplane” white noise from 60% to 75%, and setting device volume to 80% from 50%. Noise torture was successfully neutralized!

During the 48-hour SCIENCE experiment, I resumed reading of Bookshare fiction books from 200wpm to 260wpm to 300wpm to 400wpm, and then to 500wpm, all with white noise generator in operation, especially while undergoing extreme, yet intermittent LOUD noise pollution at the same time. While Amazon Alexa logs the noise triggers, I have been successfully reading Bookshare audiobooks, ENJOYING them, as well, at the same time!

My proof that my comprehension and cognition is repaired, is when I am able to generate a “mental movie” in my mind, allowing me to experience a “fantasy world” as if I am in that environment, sometimes as a first-person scenario. — That was like it was for me when I frequently watched movies in the cinemas when I had perfect eyesight. Yes, I regularly visited cinemas, here in The Philippines. ☺️

Slowly, I plan to advance to 600 words per minute with active white noise generation during extremely LOUD noisy conditions. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, each Bookshare fictional book becomes a “mental movie” for me! ☺️

My half-sighted wife is amazed that I can enjoy Bookshare books while wearing stereo earbuds when LOUD noise pollution is occurring! ☺️ She is very happy with my progress. I told her, that is why I conduct SCIENCE experiments! ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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