Audio Easy Read

Working with the authors of the document or voice-over artists, we can produce an Easy Read document with a 'speak out loud' audio function.

Here’s an audio Easy Read we made earlier…

The front cover of the Easy Read version of the NHSE Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework

First build your Easy Read document

The Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework is a complex document and needed two Easy Read workshops to work through the entire document.

IC Works experts were joined by NHS England staff and mental health carers who had co-produced the original document.

A page from the Easy Read version of the NHSE Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework

Second, make a spoken word recording

Four people took part in the voice-over recordings: three mental health carers and Jacqui Dyer who instigated the framework.

We used Riverside FM to ensure we obtained good quality recordings of everyone’s voices remotely.

Audio Easy Read version of NHSE Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework

Finally, edit your audio and embed in your Easy Read doc

This next bit was probably the trickiest. The audio was uploaded to Logic Pro and edited into page-length mp3s.

Each audio track was embedded in the designed Easy Read document.

Audio Easy Read. Done.