[nfb-talk] Reading on the go with Mobile DAISY Player V2.2, the only DAISY Player for Symbian phones compatible with DAISY 3.0

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 France’s 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 Factory’s 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 Factory’s 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