[Dtb-talk] Testers needed.

[Greg Kearney]

The URL to the Bookshare utility is http://www.cucat.org/projects/bso2dtbook

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
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Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 06/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, Danny Brookhart wrote:

> Dear Mr. Greg Kearney,
>
> Greetings.
> My name is Danny Brookhart, and I am very interested in becoming a  
> tester for your bso2dtbook perl program.
> The company that I work for, Spanish Language Productions, Inc., in  
> Alexandria, Oh, is currently working on research for producing  
> DTBooks (Nimas or Daisy) in Spanish. We work in a near 100% Mac  
> environment, so I am interested in any mac related software that  
> could help.
>
> It seems like most of the major tools utilized in the construction  
> of Dtbooks are skewed for PC use, leaving very little room for  
> anything in the Mac environment.
>
> Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Sincerely,
> Danny Brookhart
> Graphic Artist
> Spanish Language Productions, Inc.
>
>
> On 10/1/09 10:01 PM, "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Testers needed.
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier post there will be an issue with using Bookshare.org
>  books on the new NLS players as these players do not support text to
> speech or text only Daisy books. The way around this is to generate a
> full text/full audio version of the book from the XML file in the
> original Bookshare.org file set.
>
> The issue however is that the Bookshare.org XML file is not properly
> formed for Daisy Pipeline Narrator script to transform directly. I
> have a perl script that will take two arguments, path to the Bookshare.org
>  XML file and the path and name to the output file and will make the
> needed transformations. You can then use this file in the Daisy
> Pipeline to build the full text/full audio book.
>
> Transforming the book in this manner in no way changes your legal
> obligations to Bookshare or the copyright act. All legal notices are
> left in place as are all bookshare watermarks.
>
> I am looking for testers to try this out and see if it works for them.
> You will need to have Perl installed on your computer, Mac and Linux
> users have this by default Windows users will need to install it. If
> you are using a Mac I can provide a Mac application with an accessible
> GUI.
>
> Please contact me for more information.
>
> 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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