[Dtb-talk] Testers needed.

[Greg Kearney]

Due to legal issues we can not do that at this time. But I will look  
into it further.


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 07/10/2009, at 11:52 AM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> 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
> 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 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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