[Dtb-talk] Kernel Books or Other Publications in DAISY?

[Greg Kearney]

Here is a short primer in how DAISY books are produced. There are  
three types of books:

Audio Only, usually made with human narration.
Text Only, like Bookshare.org produces with no recording.
Full Text/Full Audio where the audio narration is synced with the text  
of the book.

This last type is generally made with synthetic speech as the process  
of syncing human narration to text is very labour intensive.

If tapes of good quality of the books can be accessed ABWA can  
digitised them and produce a Audio only DAISY title. We would need  
print copies of the books as well. These would have navigation to the  
chapter or other major section. If there is a text file or other  
computer file of the text of the book we are able to generate a full  
text full audio version with chapter, section and page number  
navigation in about 48 hours. New human narrated books done by our  
narrators in Perth take considerably longer to produce.

I would be happy to discuss digital talking book production with the  
NFB at any time.

Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia

Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202
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Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
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Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 29/04/2009, at 11:44 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Hello Tina and listers,
>
>    My understanding is that the national office is working on  
> creating a
> DAISY version of Walking Alone and Marching Together. Perhaps  
> they're doing
> the same with other publications and will role them out when the  
> holdings of
> the Jacobus TenBroek Library go online later this year. My guess is  
> that
> this will be a component of the new Library management system being
> developed and implemented by the NFB Jernigan Institute. This is all  
> I know.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Hansen" <th404 at comcast.
>
> net>
> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: <Nfb-history at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:20 PM
> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Kernel Books or Other Publications in DAISY?
>
>
> Something I've been wanting to see for some time is our kernel books  
> and/or
> other publications offered in DAISY format. I know that we have some  
> kernel
> books on the NLS download site, along with some of the titles in our
> Critical Concerns in Blindness series, but that's about it. I'd  
> really love
> to see Walking Alone and Marching Together done as DAISY. I know  
> that RFB&D
> has that book, but it's not very well marked up.
>
> Also, what about one of the first books in that Critical Concerns  
> series:
> Freedom for the Blind: the Secret is Empowerment? NLS offered that  
> on tape,
> but I've not seen it on the download site yet.
>
> So I will ask: Is anyone out there willing to take on a project like  
> this,
> especially if the original master tapes are still in good shape? Maybe
> someone in our Living History group could take this on. Or maybe  
> someone at
> the National Center. Thanks.
>
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