[Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There

[Greg Kearney]

Yes we have digitizing machines here that will do a whole tape in  
about 6 minutes.


Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
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On 13/12/2009, at 10:04 AM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:

> Grover,
>
> I can and do extract 4track with a computer pretty easy.  You have  
> to split left and right, cut the speed in half, reverse the "right  
> channel" of both sides, and remember that the 3-4 sides are encoded  
> on the opposite sides of the tape from where you'd expect them to be  
> (hence the need to reverse the audio).
>
> Joseph
>
> -- 
> How many children in America are not taught how to read?
> If they are blind, the answer is 90%--more than 52,000 children!
> Find out how you can help: http://www.braille.org/
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:54:49PM -0500, Grover Zinn wrote:
>> I've been thinking for various reasons about accessibility of  
>> etexts for text-to-voice and other such things (including the  
>> Amazon Kindle situation).
>>
>> I did not know DRM was the "problem" with NLS downloads; I do know  
>> that the Milestone 312 (a pretty spectacular piece of hardware with  
>> the addons) will not play NLS (and they designed it this way, given  
>> that they are European).  I would think that the "lockout" via  
>> registration for BARD should let the NLS "control" the distribution  
>> of texts in Daisy format.  With the 4track tapes, there was a bit  
>> of a limitation that you have to have a 4track player, but there is  
>> no way to lock the tapes (as far as I know).
>>
>> The "management" of etexts to prevent text to voice (see the Barnes  
>> and Noble ebook web site) is interesting; is this just publisher  
>> control, or is the "copyright law" on their side/ (I've done  
>> copyright law for a collegiate setting, and it is complicated and  
>> in some cases yet to be tested in court).
>>
>> A bit of a ramble.  But this is a very interesting and crucial  
>> question.  Other than protecting the talking book market, what is  
>> the problem???  (Profits are important to companies   :-)   )
>>
>> best
>>
>> Grover Zinn
>>
>> Grover Zinn
>> William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus
>> former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
>> Oberlin College
>> Oberlin, OH 44074
>> grover.zinn at oberlin.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:56 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> What you may have noticed or
>>>> been told is NLS possibly giving RNIB access to the original  
>>>> DAISY without
>>>> the DRM.
>>>
>>> It was CNIB, but that's neither here nor there. So OK, who puts the
>>> DRM on these things, and why do we need to wait until that's done
>>> while other countries get it without?  This sounds remarkably like
>>> buying drugs from other countries which were made in the U.S. but  
>>> not
>>> distributable in the U.S.
>>>
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