Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our cookies page.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. For example, the selections you make here about which cookies to accept are stored in a cookie.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are ones planted by other websites while using this site. This may occur (for example) where a Twitter or Facebook feed is embedded with a page. Selecting to turn these off will hide such content.

LATEST RECORDINGS

PATN is connected to British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF) and recordings are listed below.  Click on the link 'Web Player (New)' below to listen to the BWBF edition. The link marked 'Playlist' is for Sonata users.

We now have a service whereby you can listen directly from your computer, or even your tablet, whether it is android, Windows or IOS (you will have to click on each track with IOS devices).  Just click on the Web Player version - you will have to click and listen to each track in turn (unless using an IOS device, see above).

The News: 2 December 2024, Red Edition 2319 (Alternate Red & Blue Editions): Weekly         Playlist         Web Player (New) 

Women's Choice: November 2024, Edition 194: Monthly      Playlist            Web Player (New)

Out & About: Autumn 2024, Edition 112: Quarterly   Playlist            Web Player (New)

Navy News: November 2024, Edition 195: Monthly                   Playlist            Web Player (New)

Petersfield Soundtrack (News from Petersfield):  21st & 28th November 2024, Edition 407: Fortnightly      Playlist   Web Player (New) 

Yesterday Magazine: Autumn 2024, Edition 65: Quarterly                     Playlist             Web Player (New)

If you would like to order any of these recordings in MEMORY STICK (USB) format, just Click On This Link

Latest Recordings via Amazon Alexa

PATN is also connected to AMAZON ALEXA (via BWBF). To gain access to recordings please use the following guide: 
USER: Say 'ALEXA, open Talking Newspapers'.
ALEXA: ‘Welcome to your Talking Newspaper skill.   Please say the title you would like to listen to’.
USER: Choose one of the following six recordings by saying:
'Portsmouth Talking Newspaper' followed by either (1) 'Weekly News' [for the Portsmouth NEWS] (2) 'Out and About' (3) 'Women’s Choice' (4) 'Navy News' (5) 'Yesterday' (6) 'Petersfield Soundtrack' 
ALEXA: ‘Did you say Portsmouth Talking Newspaper weekly news’? (as an example)
USER: Yes
ALEXA: ‘This is Portsmouth Talking Newspaper weekly news’.  The latest edition will then follow.                                                           To stop the recording and move to another:
USER: Say ‘ALEXA, stop’.
USER: Say 'ALEXA, open Talking Newspapers’.
ALEXA: ‘You are listening to Portsmouth Talking Newspaper weekly news. Would you like to review’?
USER: ‘Yes’ (to listen again) or ‘No’ to move to another recording.
ALEXA: 'Please say the title you would like to listen to’ (if the answer is 'No').
USER: ‘Portsmouth Talking Newspaper - Out and About’ (as an example).
ALEXA: ‘Do you want to listen to Portsmouth Talking Newspaper - Out and About’?
USER: ‘Yes’
ALEXA: ‘This is Portsmouth Talking Newspaper - Out and About’.  The latest edition will then follow.
Repeat the foregoing as needed.