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=[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form - Introduction for audio computer Read aloud]]=
[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)|Main article - Introduction]]
[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)|'''click here to go to the Main article - Introduction''']]
The narrative form of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)'' is an adaptation of the redacted text of this same encyclopedic feature, using phonetic spellings on the page. This is so that the audio computer "Read aloud" function reads it more naturally as a kind of "radio narrative" for people with bad vision or who are blind or are unable to look at a computer screen or read the printed page for very long. People who simply listen to the Bible being read often get unexpected insights when they can hear it. This is a benefit.
The narrative form of the ''Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version'' is an adaptation of the redacted text of this same encyclopedic feature, using unusual phonetic spellings on the page, and some very peculiar punctuation. This is so that the mechanical limitations of audio computer "Read aloud" function reads it more naturally, as a kind of "radio narrative" for people with bad vision or who are blind, or are simply unable to look at a computer screen or read the printed page for very long. People who simply listen to the Bible being read often get unexpected insights when they can hear it. This is a benefit.
Chapter headings are not properly a part of the narrative text, so they are not included in the text adapted here for a computer audio narrative of the page readings. Each page of the normal ''Harmony of the Gospel'' text here is seven chapters. Each of these seven-chapter pages is presented in the narrative form of this feature as a continuous reading for listening instead, without any mention of the chapter headings. The chapters of each page being read are mentioned in the heading of the page.
;Chapter headings
Chapter headings are not properly a part of the narrative text, so they are not included in the text adapted here for a computer audio narrative of the page readings. Each page of the normal print form of this ''Harmony of the Gospel'' text is seven chapters. Each of these seven-chapter pages is presented in the narrative form of this feature as a continuous reading for listening instead, without any mention of the chapter headings. The chapters of each page being read are mentioned in the heading of the page.
;Text additions
Visual punctuation on the page has been adapted so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or stumbles over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text. In other cases some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading occur when it encounters a particular word or phrase, like "Genealogies" in the preceding paragraph. Many commas have been removed simply because they produce unnatural pauses in the computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have been added to provide a pause where necessary, to avoid an unintended hurried reading through a sentence so the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener. The punctuation of "dashes" in the printed text, normally intended to indicate a pause for emphasis, is totally ignored by the computer reading as if it doesn't exist, and a comma or semi-colon or even a full period is used instead to produce the same intended effect. In some cases, phrases have been rearranged because the mechanical reading of the computer breaks up a sentence into two or more parts, which it then reads as separate sentences that don't make much sense as read. It doesn't change the meaning. It's just a necessary adaptation to get around the limitations of mechanical computer reading, which simply makes more sense of the text of the narrative when read that way.
Some minor additions to the text of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)'' have been made, so that the reading is more understandable. For example, instead of abruptly beginning the reading of some of the epistles or some of the historical documents suddenly without any warning, an introductory statement is used, such as "Now this is what he wrote". In some places it's enough to begin the reading of it with the simple word, "Now", followed by the reading. This is so the listener will know what's happening. In the same way, to make clear that the epistle or document reading is finished, a statement saying so is added before going on with the narrative. Some few instances of the information found in the marginal notes of the longer form of ''Harmony of the Gospel'' are very briefly condensed and essentially summarized and inserted for the benefit of the listener. For example, an additional summary statement inserted in the text of Chapter Two, immediately after the quotations from the law of Moses about the vowing of persons to the service of God, as dedicated living offerings set apart as holy to the Lord, and why a daughter, vowed by her parents as a consecrated virgin to "know not a man", should be pledged to become a wife to a man. It says, "And Mary, being vowed to the Lord by her parents when she was a child, and consecrated to him by them as a perpetual virgin to not know a man, a vow she had not made, which her husband therefore could not make void; when the angel told her she would conceive in her womb and bear a son; for this reason she said, 'How can this be?' " The reasoning behind this is dealt with in detail in the marginal notes of the longer form of ''Harmony of the Gospel''. This is followed by a repeat of the conversation with the angel Gabriel. Most questions raised by parts of the New Testament texts that are controversial are tackled by the marginal notes of the longer form.
;Adapting large paragraphs
In some places of the reading of the text of this ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)'' the computer sometimes skips reading whole sections of large continuous paragraphs. For this audio adaptation they have been broken up into smaller segments on the page, to compensate for this kind of mechanical failure to process the whole of the copy. This is in order for the computer to read all of the text it otherwise mechanically fails to read in the normal printed form, without any such omissions, whole and entire, like the Genealogies, and the more extensive sections of the history narrative from [[Josephus]].
;Punctuation
Visual punctuation on the page has been adapted so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations are not errors that need to be corrected by a proofreader. Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text. In other cases some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading occur when it encounters a particular word or phrase. Many commas have been removed simply because they produce unnatural pauses in the audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have been added to provide a pause where necessary, to avoid an unintended hurried reading through a sentence without pause so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener. A period is sometimes inserted to force a necessary pause in the reading where vocal emphasis is appropriate and natural, where the computer fails to provide for it. The punctuation of "dashes" in the printed text, normally intended to indicate a pause for emphasis, is totally ignored by the computer reading as if they don't exist, sometimes even when isolated by a space before and after, and a comma or semi-colon or colon, even a period, or the capitalization of a word in the middle of a sentence, is used instead to produce the same intended effect.
;Inverted phrases
In some cases, phrases have been rearranged from the end of a sentence to its beginning or its middle, either because the structure of the sentence as it is, is hard to follow, or because the mechanical reading of the computer breaks up the sentence of the normal text into two or more parts, which it then reads as separate sentences, or dangling phrases, that don't make much sense as read aloud by the computer. It doesn't change the meaning. It's just a necessary adaptation to get around the limitations of mechanical computer reading, which simply makes more sense of the text of the narrative when read that way.
;Weird mispronunciations
Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some ordinary words. For example, the name Onesimus is read by the computer as "One sime us". For this reason phonetic spellings have been substituted on the visual display of the page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the Read aloud and Read out loud audio functions of the computer. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism is mechanically read wrongly with a soft "c h" by the computer as if it's the name of a belief called "char-ism", when it should be pronounced with the hard form of "c h" as "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in Suetonius is rendered phonetically on the page as "Desseb ball us". A similar technique of phonetic adaptation is made for other names of people and places, so the computer audio reading will say it right.
Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some ordinary words. For example, the name Onesimus is read by the computer as "One sime us". For this reason phonetic spellings have been substituted on the visual display of the page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the Read aloud and Read out loud audio functions of the computer. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism is mechanically read wrongly with a soft "c h" by the computer as if it's the name of a belief called "char-ism", when it should be pronounced with the hard form of "c h" as "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in Suetonius is rendered phonetically on the page as "Desseb ball us". A similar technique of phonetic adaptation is made for other names of people and places, so the computer audio reading will say it right.
;Useless dictionary phonetic forms
Substituting the standard forms of dictionary phonetic spellings of these words with the phonetic characters of their dictionary definitions just doesn't work. Available audio computer Read aloud functions are not currently adapted for reading dictionary phonetical spellings with special phonetic characters, and they are not phonetically read right by the computer according to the sounds they are intended to represent. The same goes for any computer Read aloud of any words spelled with the [[IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet]]. It doesn't work.
Substituting the standard forms of dictionary phonetic spellings of these words with the phonetic characters of their dictionary definitions just doesn't work. Available audio computer Read aloud functions are not currently adapted for reading dictionary phonetical spellings with special phonetic characters, and they are not phonetically read right by the computer according to the sounds they are intended to represent. The same goes for any computer Read aloud of any words spelled with the [[IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet]]. It doesn't work.
;Vocal tense
The computer often cannot distinguish the past and present tenses of some words. Sometimes it doesn't use the right inflexion or accentuation of syllables of words in the context of the reading. For example, the past tense of "read", r e a d, is sometimes given by the computer as the verb to read something as if reading right now, "to read it", but for the narrative form on the page the intended past tense of the word needs to be phonetically corrected to r e d, "red", within the context of the text, "I have red this". On the page it doesn't look right, but in the audio computer reading these odd spellings sound right. The word "live" is sometimes read as in "alive", when it should be pronounced "liv", l i v, without the misleading cue of the silent 'e' on the end of the word, which the machine mindlessly interprets as a direction to pronounce the alphabetic character, "eye", ' i ', as a long vowel, instead of the proper short vowel, according to the context of the verbal tense of the setting within the sentence. The word "untie" is O.K., but the computer reads "untying" as "un-tee-ing". And the computer sometimes pronounces "present" with the accent on the second syllable as presenting something, to "pree Zent" it, and sometimes reads it with the accent on the first syllable as "Prezent" now. The computer forms of pronunciation can also change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, as when you log off and go away and come back and log on for a second reading of it again and the uncommon words are read differently from before, sometimes changing their meanings, which can be confusing for the listener who can't read print, especially for students who study class-assigned books and materials with the aid of audio readings. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show the sighted reader that they are not misspelling accidents or "typos" overlooked by tired proofreaders.
The computer often cannot distinguish the past and present tenses of some words. Sometimes it doesn't use the right inflexion or accentuation of syllables of words in the context of the reading. For example, the past tense of "read", r e a d, is sometimes given by the computer as the verb to read something as if reading right now, "to read it", but for the narrative form on the page the intended past tense of the word needs to be phonetically corrected to r e d, "red", within the context of the text, "I have red this". On the page it doesn't look right, but in the audio computer reading these odd spellings sound right. The word "live" is sometimes read as in "alive", when it should be pronounced "liv", l i v, without the misleading cue of the silent 'e' on the end of the word, which the machine mindlessly interprets as a direction to pronounce the alphabetic character, "eye", ' i ', as a long vowel, instead of the proper short vowel, according to the context of the verbal tense of the setting within the sentence. The word "untie" is O.K., but the computer reads "untying" as "un-tee-ing". And the computer sometimes pronounces "present" with the accent on the second syllable as presenting something, to "pree Zent" it, and sometimes reads it with the accent on the first syllable as "Prezent" now. The computer forms of pronunciation can also change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, as when you log off and go away and come back and log on for a second reading of it again and the uncommon words are read differently from before, sometimes changing their meanings, which can be confusing for the listener who can't read print, especially for students who study class-assigned books and materials with the aid of audio readings. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show the sighted reader that they are not misspelling accidents or "typos" overlooked by tired proofreaders.
;An illustration
As an illustration, turn on the Read aloud function on your computer or device, and listen to this page. The term "Read aloud function" can be phonetically adapted as "Reed aloud function", which looks wrong but reads right. Vocally, context is everything when reading out loud. Compare the reading of the text here below of the genealogy from Chapter Five of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) shorter form'' and the phonetic adaptation of the same text from the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. In the first part of this example the computer's reading omits a large section of the block of text after the fact that Joseph died, skipping everything in the genealogy up to the words "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab". Then it reads it from there all the way to the words at the end, "Adam, the son of God", and then it repeats everything it had already read from the same place, starting again with "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab", down to the end again, with "Adam, the son of God". This defect in the mechanical computer reading of the regular existing text of this Harmony of the Gospel is eliminated with the adapted phonetic spellings of the narrative form.
As an illustration, turn on the Read aloud function on your computer or device, and listen to this page. The term "Read aloud function" can be phonetically adapted as "Reed aloud function", which looks wrong but reads right. Vocally, context is everything when reading out loud. Compare the reading of the text here below of the genealogy from Chapter Five of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) shorter form'' and the phonetic adaptation of the same text from the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. In the first part of this example the computer's reading omits a large section of the block of text after the fact that Joseph died, skipping everything in the genealogy up to the words "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab". Then it reads it from there all the way to the words at the end, "Adam, the son of God", and then it repeats everything it had already read from the same place, starting again with "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab", down to the end again, with "Adam, the son of God". This defect in the mechanical computer reading of the regular existing text of this Harmony of the Gospel is eliminated with the adapted phonetic spellings of the narrative form.
Example:
Example:
;Harmony of the Gospel Shorter Form
;Harmony of the Gospel Shorter Form, the legal genealogy of Joseph the husband of Mary
Now Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ, died. And Jesus himself, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, when he began, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Now Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ, died. And Jesus himself, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, when he began, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
;Harmony of the Gospel Narrative Form
;Harmony of the Gospel Narrative Form, the legal genealogy of Joseph the husband of Mary
Now Joseph, the husband of Mary from whom was born Jesus who is called Christ: died.
Now Joseph, the husband of Mary from whom was born Jesus who is called Christ: died.
the son of Aram, the son of "Hezzron", the son of "Pairezz", the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
the son of Aram, the son of "Hezzron", the son of "Pairezz", the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
the son of Terah, the son of "Nay-hore", the son of "Sair-ugh", the son of "Ree-you", the son of "Pel-egg", the son of "E-ber", the son of "Shel-lah".
the son of Terah, the son of "Nay-hore", the son of "Sair-ugh", the son of "Ree-you", the son of "Pel-egg", the son of "E-ber", the son of "Shella".
the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Arh Faxad", the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch.
the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Arh Faxad", the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch.
the son of Jared, the son of "Ma Halla-leel", the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Enos", the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
the son of Jared, the son of "Ma Halla-leel", the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Enos", the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
You can hear the difference.
;Listening times
At the top of each page of seven-chapters, just before the reading of the text, is a note telling the total reading time of the whole page. Except for the first page, Chapters 1-7, each page is over two hours listening time. The Read aloud function bar features back-up, pause, and skip-forward, and also a choice of audio reading voice.
;Index of links to the pages of the narrative form of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)''
;Here is an Index of direct links to the pages of the narrative form of ''Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version)''
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 1-7 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 1-7 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 1-7]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 7-14 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 8-14 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 8-14]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 15-21 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 15-21 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 15-21]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 22-28 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 22-28 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 22-28]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 29-35 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 29-35 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 29-35]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 36-42 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 36-42 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 36-42]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 43-49 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 43-49 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 43-49]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 50-56 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 50-56 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 50-56]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 57-63 adapted for audio computer Read aloud]]===
===[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 57-63 adapted for audio computer Read aloud|Chapters 57-63]]===
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