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'Indiana Voices' Provides Hoosier Books For The Visually Impaired

Connie Miller sits in a small vocal booth. On the other side of the glass is Linden Miller, the director of Indiana Voices.

"What we do is we produce books here- audio books for the blind and visually impaired, as well as physically impaired people, that have what I like to say is like an Indiana Signature," says Coffman.

Around a dozen volunteers come

in each week. They read for about an hour while Coffman records the audio.

All of the books are written by Indiana authors or have a connection to the state.

It's typical for best sellers to be made into audio books but that leaves countless other titles that never get recorded.

Indiana Voices has recorded 122 books as well as a majority of Outdoor Indiana magazines.

It's part of a larger program called The Talking Library which circulates more than 115,000 books and magazines to people here in Indiana.