[Dtb-talk] DAISY Bookk Production

Sun May 3 12:10:22 UTC 2009

I would be happy to give such a workshop if wanted and could be  
arranged. I have done a number of such workshops in the past.

Let me add here that there is no need to buy the sometimes very  
expensive software for producing digital talking books. Daisy  
Pipeline, Save as Daisy and Obi are all free and will do a fine job of  
producing books. Whie the commercial software is very good, Dolphin  
Producer/Publisher is about you only choice for full text/full human  
audio, it can be very expensive as well.

I may be in the United State at the time of your national convention  
and if so may be able to arrange something.

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)
Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 01/05/2009, at 7:17 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Good evening everyone,
>
>    One way to make more DTB books an d other information available to
> readers is for more of us who want to see this happen learn the art  
> of DTB
> production to assist out national office and affiliates that wish to  
> make
> their materials available in this format. I was on the verge of  
> purchassing
> DTB production software, until a power outage fried my wife's  
> computer early
> yesterday morning. It's amazing how events come together at the  
> right time.
> Help arrived in the form of our tax refund which allowed us to  
> purchass Mary
> a new PC and allowed me to buy a laptop; something I've been wanting  
> to do
> for quite a while.
>
>    It would be nice if workshops and seminars on DAISY production  
> could be
> held during our national convention or in the Jernigan Institute to  
> teach
> more of us  the art of DTB production and increasing the amount of NFB
> material available in this format.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format
>
>
> Unless its been recently fixed, the NFB is not good at using a
> standard filename template, so its hard to automate the downloading of
> the mp3 files.
>
> I would love to see a sync'ed narrated/text version of the monitor,
> but as I understand Greg, this is labor intensive and so is not likely
> to appear.
>
> Without a synced version, I have a hard time seeing the benefit of
> using Daisy to navigate articles vs having each article in its own mp3
> file (which is how the NFB pubishes them)  I'm very curious how others
> how others compare these two types of navigation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:20:52AM -0600, Brett Winches wrote:
>> Greg,  The mp3 files of the Monitor are posted on the website  
>> monthly.  I
>> am not sure if the lead time is sufficient but think all  
>> publication is
>> now synchronized to have multiple media out at the same time.  Good  
>> luck.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk- 
>> bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Greg Kearney
>> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:16 AM
>> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
>> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format
>>
>> Thank you. In the case of the Braille Monitor and other such  
>> publications
>> from the NFB we will need to arrange a more permanent arrangement  
>> with
>> them for doing such production work moving forward. I believe that  
>> we have
>> proved the worth of such however.
>>
>> 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)
>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
>> Email: gkearney at gmail.com
>>
>> On 01/05/2009, at 8:19 AM, Steve Cook wrote:
>>
>>> This is great!  I look forward to reading more material such as this
>>> in Daisy.  It is so much easier to navigate.
>>>
>>> Steve Cook
>>> Assistive Technology Specialist
>>> SC Commission for the Blind
>>> 1430 Confederate Avenue
>>> Columbia, SC 29201
>>> Phone: (803) 898-8788
>>> Fax: (803) 898-8882
>>> E-Mail: stcook at sccb.sc.gov
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-
>>> bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:27 PM
>>> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
>>> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format
>>>
>>> We got permission to do this from the NFB national office. Here is a
>>> link to the Braille Monitor for May 2009 in DAISY format produced at
>>> the Association for the Blind of Western Australia.
>>>
>>> http://www.cucat.org/library/openbiblio/shared/biblio_view.php?bibid=7
>>> 9106&tab=opac
>>>
>>> We are using this to work out how to handle magazines and like
>>> materials.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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)
>>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
>>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
>>> Email: gkearney at gmail.com
>>>
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