[Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

[Burke, Dan (DSS)]

Greg,

When you say  full text, full audio, are you talking about trying to
synch the text with the recorded mp3, or using a screen reader to create
the audio?  I'm not all that clear how the full-text, full-audio thing
works.

Or maybe I only ask this because I like digital text over  digital
audio, if only slightly.  But  I've always  wondered how the full text
full audio would be worth the effort if I just had clean text to build
from.

Sorry to be so out of touch.

Dan

Daniel J. Burke
Assistant Director/Coordinator
Disability Services for Students
Emma B. Lommasson 154
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

www.umt.edu/dss/

406.243.2243 voice/text
406.243.4424 direct line
406.243.5330 fax


-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:56 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

Once we get access to the digital version of the other recorded  
materials we will use those rather than generating the section with  
computer speech.

I also found the text of the other NFB books online and am  
investigating the process of generating those as full text full audio  
with page number navigation.

Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney at gmail.com



On 30/04/2009, at 5:52 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> 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
> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America)
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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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