[Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Greg and listers,

If you get copies  ofBraille Monitor Issues on cassette you could digitize 
the masthead and prelims that way. JMO.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format


Because we do not have access to the recordings of the masthead and
front matter we have to record those sections with a computer-
generated voice provided to us by Apple. It is perhaps the best
quality synthetic voice available. It is also the only high quality
voice which is released for talking book production without paying
licensing fees.

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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Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 30/04/2009, at 3:32 PM, Tina Hansen wrote:

> I was impressed by this Monitor in DAISY format, but I think there
> could be some improvement on the way the electronic voice handles
> the address, phone number, web site, and the like. They sounded a
> bit off. Once we got past the table of contents, the audio moves
> into the recorded narration produced by National. Just a suggestion.
> Thanks.
>
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