[Dtb-talk] Braille Monitor in Daisy format

Thu May 7 03:58:06 UTC 2009

Greg works on a Mac, so it'll be Alex.  I'm sure it's available for 
the Mac.  It's just not as good as Alex, and it's not free.

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:23:31PM +1200, Rakesh Chand wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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 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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