[Dtb-talk] Testers needed.

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Greg and listers,

    Why not include installation of the external tools along with the DAISY 
Pipeline. Hence the entire bundle is installed with little fuss or muss. It 
was my hope that stuff like this would become something of the past; 
especially with all of the DTB  production tools you've created. I took 
several other developers of free DTB production software to the mat over 
this same issue last year.We appreciate the work you and others have done to 
develop free or low-cost DTB production products, and would hope that 
nonsense like this would stop!

    I recently downloaded and installed radio station automation software 
that had several dependencies it needed. The installer retrieved them and 
installed the entire package. All I needed to do is learn how to use the 
thing. I hope that free DTB production tools will install in a like manner.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Testers needed.


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
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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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