[Dtb-talk] NFB 2009 as text only DAISY

[Greg Kearney]

Yes we are aware of both issues the first one reading times as numbers  
is being investigated now. I recommend that if possible people should  
use the text only version for now.

The issue with Olearia is a known bug Apple is still working on it.

Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
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On 25/05/2009, at 10:00 PM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:

> Finally a chance to play with Olearia 0.9.5.1 using this agenda.   
> (All of my books are text-only or DRM-restricted, so the last public  
> release hasn't been something I could easily test.)
>
> First, one comment on the book itself:  Alex seems to be reading the  
> times in ways such as "nine hundred em", which is something I can  
> figure out, but that could be a source formatting issue.
>
> Secondly, Olearia seems to be playing the files back with an echo.   
> I threw afplay and mplayer at a couple of the mp3 files to see if it  
> was an Olearia thing, a QuickTime thing, or the source mp3.  Neither  
> afplay nor mplayer have the echo, so it seems to be Olearia.  The  
> echo got a lot worse when I started playing with speed controls.   
> Ticket submitted.
>
> Noteworthy, I could not crash Olearia by poking at various  
> controls.  I did make a valiant attempt to do so.  *grin*  I'll feed  
> it malformed books another day.
>
> Joseph
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:56:33PM -0600, Greg Kearney wrote:
>> Here is the full text/full audio DAISY versions of the 2009 NFB   
>> convention agenda. Voice is Apple Alex. Here is the link:
>>
>> http://www.cucat.org/books/tmp/2009convention-z3986.zip
>>
>> Navigation is by major section at the first level, by day at the  
>> second level and by agenda item at the third level. Other versions  
>> including full audio/ full text should be coming shortly.
>>
>> 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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