More Information

Visit our TRP website for more information and a demonstration.

If you are a Library patron and would like to receive this service, please contact our Telephone Reader staff:

Phone: 1-800-808-2555 or (323) 660-3880, Ext. 1435

E-mail: news@braillelibrary.org

For a free demonstration by phone, call:

(866) 333-1211 and use ID Number 5555

Telephone Reader Program (TRP)

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TRP offers a variety of different publications and media for our members to access on their computers or touch-tone phones. TRP seeks to give members more independence in their daily lives by offering recordings of material usually available only in print. Users can listen to national and local news, grocery and department store ads, magazine articles and more in both English and Spanish.

Here is some of what's available in English:
  • USA Today
  • K-Cal 9 local news
  • Grocery, discount, and department store ads
  • Magazines including People, Money, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Oprah, and Prevention
  • Restaurant and Fast Food menus
  • Braille Institute Announcements
  • Library newsletters
  • Old-time radio shows including “Burns and Allen,” “Abbot and Costello” and much more
  • IAAIS Program Share: Military Times, Teen Magazines, Playboy Magazine
TRP volunteer in reading booth
Here is some of what's available in Spanish:

La Opinión:
  • Primera Pagina 
  • Pais
  • Latino America
  • Ciudad
  • Horoscopo y mas

Revistas:

  • Alma
  • TV y Novelas
  • El Aviso