[Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

Wed May 6 07:23:31 UTC 2009

Just being slightly curious! Wonder if JAWS voice from Freedom Scientific 
could be used? I love JAWS voice!

Rakesh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

> The full text full audio DAISY digital talking book has both the text  and 
> sometimes the pictures as well for the book as well as recorded  audio of 
> the book. This permits the book to by read using either  a  playback 
> device with TTS or one that does not offer that option. In  addition when 
> played on a computer playback system the text and audio  will be synched 
> together for display.
>
> Generally, and in this case, such books are produced with computerised 
> text to speech voices, ours is from Apple, Inc. the only high quality 
> voice vendor that has given a free license to use such voices in 
> production.
>
> It is possible to synch human narration to text and ABWA has the 
> facilities to do this but the process is very slow and labour intensive.
>
> ABWA offers services in the transformation and production of DAISY and 
> other accessible media. Please feel free to contact me if you require 
> more information on this.
>
> Gregory Kearney
> Manager - Accessible Media
> Association for the Blind of Western Australia
> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia
>
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> On 01/05/2009, at 10:05 AM, Burke, Dan (DSS) wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
>>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
>>> 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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