[Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

[Rakesh Chand]

Hi Greg,

Appreciate, the wonderful work you're doing.

Keep posting those Links. Aren't they wonderful?

Have a beautiful evening!

Rakesh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:56 PM
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
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> 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
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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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