Galway History :: History of Galway, Galway in old Photos

We have tested technical factors and solutions to installing speech synthesizer that would all our text materials into speech. This will help people with visual impairments or reading disabilities be efficient users of the website. Having acquainted ourselves with our users opinions, we decided on a female voice, Jennifer, with an English accent. In the nearest future, a licence will be bought for a programme called "Expressivo" that will allow us to generate audio-books in the shape of MP3 files with gathered texts. Our users will be able to listen to such files online, on our website.

 

 January 5 2009 was an important date for our project. It was the day we considered the website’s technical preparations completed. Our CMS passed all the tests and is now ready to work.

A wonderful journey has started. We are now looking for texts relating to Galway history, photographs, recordings and films. We’re also starting works on translating all the materials into Polish so it can be available as a second language version on the website.

The first part of the material has ben copied from WIKIPEDIA Internet service. It will serve as basis for our work.

On galway.net website we also came across free from copyright Galway history book by James Hardiman, XIXth-century local historian and NUI Galway librarian.

For starters, we managed to gather some 200 photographs and postcards of old Galway. We placed them under the category “to be recognized”. After agreeing on a place, time and authors, the pictures will be moved to their proper categories.