[nfb-talk] Reading on the go with Mobile DAISY Player V2.2, the only DAISY Player for Symbian phones compatible with DAISY 3.0
Code Factory_eNews
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Wed May 13 14:50:32 UTC 2009
Caroline Ragot - Marketing Director
<mailto:marketing at codefactory.es>marketing at codefactory.es
Mobile DAISY Player V2.2
Reading on the go with Mobile DAISY Player V2.2
The only DAISY Player for Symbian phones
compatible with DAISY 3.0 and Microsoft Save as DAISY
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, May 13, 2009
Mobile DAISY Player V2.2, Code Factory's
electronic book reader, is now available. This
free update includes support for Microsoft Save
as DAISY, the new Bookshare book format, support
for NFB-NEWSLINE's free publications offered
through the NFB-NEWSLINE In Your Pocket feature
(<http://www.nfbnewslineonline.org>http://www.nfbnewslineonline.org)
and other downloadable content, as well as a new
feature to convert MP3 audio files to basic DAISY
books, and a new Go to Page feature.
At Code Factory we are working hard to allow our
users to have everything they need in one device
and be free to read on the go anywhere, anytime
with what they already carry with them their
phone. The DAISY Consortium is very enthusiastic
about the latest developments which have been
made by Code Factory to encourage persons who are
blind or print disabled to read DAISY books from
their mobile phones, stated George Kerscher,
Secretary General at the
<http://www.daisy.org/>DAISY Consortium.
Mobility is the future and we thank Code Factory
for all their efforts to make DAISY part of this new world of possibilities.
Code Factory has been working in close
collaboration with Microsoft France in order to
support the Microsoft Save as DAISY format. "It
has been a great pleasure to collaborate with
Code Factory and we are very pleased to see that
their Mobile DAISY Player is fully compatible
with the DAISY standard compliant formats
generated by the "Save as DAISY" free open source
add-in for Microsoft Office Word," stated Bernard
Ourghanlian, Microsoft Frances CTO. The "Save as
DAISY" add-in for Microsoft Office Word now
incorporates a "Lite" version of the DAISY
Pipeline. You can choose to generate the DAISY
XML for further processing, or you can generate a
fully conforming DAISY file set with full
navigation and full text synchronized with audio.
The audio is generated by the default
text-to-speech (TTS) engine on your Windows
computer. "Mobile DAISY Player is compatible with
both formats, XML and DTBook, which makes the
DAISY formats more flexible and powerful than
ever as anyone can now create their own DAISY
books from their computer using Microsoft Word
and then listen to them on their mobile phone
with Code Factorys Mobile DAISY Player,"
explained Mr. Ourghanlian. To learn more, visit
<http://www.daisy.org/projects/save-as-daisy-microsoft>http://www.daisy.org/projects/save-as-daisy-microsoft.
Code Factorys engineering team has also been
working on improving compatibility with the
widest range of book formats. There are many
variants of the DAISY format, and Mobile DAISY
Player is the first and only mobile phone-based
DAISY application to support both DAISY 2.02 and
DAISY 3 (NISO) book formats. In order to insure
the greatest possible compatibility,
collaborating with the DAISY libraries is hugely
important, and many libraries have shown their
support to Code Factory, such as the
<http://www.rnib.org.uk>RNIB in the United
Kingdom, <http://www.avh.asso.fr/>Association
Valentin Haüy and
<http://www.braillenet.org/>Braillenet in
France, <http://www.dedicon.nl>Dedicon in the
Netherlands, <http://bookshare.org/>Bookshare in
the United States, <http://www.dzb.de>DZB in
Germany, the <http://www.abage.ch/>Association
pour le bien des aveugles et malvoyants in
Switzerland,
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/>Vision
Austalia's Information Library Service in
Australia, and <http://cidat.once.es/>ONCE in
Spain. "We have tested Mobile DAISY Player and
really enjoyed a lot this new way of reading on
the go. It has been very productive to
collaborate with Code Factory, they are very
responsive and open to any suggestion," explained
Fernando Pinto DA Silva, Director of the
Evaluation and Research department of Association Valentin Haüy, Paris.
Code Factory invites any DAISY libraries to
contact them through
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>Code
Factory's Help Desk, send them books to test and
together improve their compatibility with Mobile DAISY Player.
Mobile DAISY Player has also shown itself be a
wonderful help for people with reading
disabilities thanks to its configurable font
sizes and screen colors, as well as its virtual
reading mode which allows words to be spelled
when navigating character by character. It is
also very important for people with dyslexia and
low literacy to be able to follow visually what
is being read by the voice synthesis, so that
they can improve their reading ability.
To consult the full list of supported devices,
visit
<http://codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=258#MDP>http://codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=258#MDP.
You can download the latest version of Mobile
DAISY Player at
<http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=43#version_2_57>http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=43#version_2_57.
Once installed for the first time it will
automatically run for 30 days for free.
If you want to buy Mobile DAISY Player contact
your closest distributor:
<http://codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54>http://codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54.
About Code Factory
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in
Terrassa/Barcelona, Spain, Code Factory is the
global leader committed to the development of
products designed to eliminate barriers to the
accessibility of mobile technology for the blind
and visually impaired. Today, Code Factory is the
leading provider of screen readers, screen
magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest
range of mainstream mobile devices including
Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered
Smartphones as well as Pocket PC phones and PDAs.
Code Factory's success lies in giving excellent
customer support and in responding immediately to the needs of its end users.
Among Code Factory's customers are well known
organizations for the blind such as ONCE, and
carriers such as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR, TIM
and Vodafone. Code Factory has also built strong
partnerships with mainstream companies like
Nokia, Microsoft, and HP as well as leading AT
companies like Baum, HumanWare, Optelec and Sendero.
For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:
Code Factory, S.L., Rambla d'Egara 148 2-2, 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona)
<mailto:info at codefactory.es>info at codefactory.es, www.codefactory.es
Code Factory, S.L. - 2009
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