[Dtb-talk] Bookshare and the NLS player

[Greg Kearney]

The basic program would be in Perl so yes it would run under any  
platform. I would make a MacOS GUI for it others would be free to do  
Windows and Linux versions as needed.

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)
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Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 30/09/2009, at 2:14 AM, Roger Dennis wrote:

> It sounds like a great idea. Would it be Apple based or  
> transportable to
> Windows? Could it be done in PHP and put on a server? Just some  
> thoughts.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Greg Kearney
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:47 AM
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Bookshare and the NLS player
>
> Here is a thought for the list to talk over. Many of you are likely
> Bookshare member and have read their books. Bookshare produces text
> only Daisy books which are small and fine if you have a player able to
> read them, for example the VictorReader Stream.
>
> One issue that I can foresee in the future is the need to play a
> Bookshare title on an NLS issued player which does not support text
> only Daisy titles.
>
> I have developed but have never released a program that will read the
> Bookshare XML files and transform them into a DTBook XML file which
> can then be rendered as a full text full audio DAISY book which will
> play in the NLS playback device. Is this something anyone would ever
> find useful? Should I even be bothered with it? What say you all.
>
>
> 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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