[NFBCS] Creating DAISY Books

[Greg Kearney]

OK this is a topic aout which I know a great deal. If you like you can give me a call on 408-780-6535 here is the short version:

If you are producing human narration then these are your options.

1. Hindenburg ABC (Windows and MacOS) - This is the tool used by the Library of Congress. It is a full boat studio system that is able to produce NLS digital rights managed books. This is the top of the line, nothing better. It's expensive. https://hindenburg.com/products/hindenburg-abc

2. Hindenburg Narrator (Windows and MacOS) - a lite version of Hindenburg ABC it will also produce DAISY 2.02, NLS DTB, PUB3, Audio Book https://hindenburg.com/products/hindenburg-abc-narrator

3. Obi (Windows only) - A free production system from the DAISY Consortium DAISY 3, Accessible EPUB 3 and DAISY 2.02  no DRM support this produces DAISY audio only books and is well suited to production from analog tape recordings. https://daisy.org/activities/software/obi/

4. Tobi (Windows only) - Similar to Obi but can produce full text full audio DAISY. Also support synthetic narration. https://daisy.org/activities/software/tobi/

If you are producing with synthetic narration then you have another system to consider.

Jutoh & Daisy Pipeline (Windows, MacOS and Linux) - This is a combination approach. Jutoh is an inexpensive program to mark up text and then export that text as a wide range of book formats including text only DAISY, Epub2, various commercial book formats as well as HTML, RTF and so on. With Jutoh you are approaching the much desired goal of a single source document which then generates a wide range of outputs.

When Jutoh is combined with Daisy Pipeline you can then generate DAISY 3, DAISY 2.02, as well as EPub3 with full media overlays with narration done by synthetic voices. IT a multi step process, exporting the book for Jutoh as DAISY and then using the resulting DTBook XML file to process the results in DAISY Pipeline. DAISY Pipeline can even generate Braille but I would recommend BrailleBlaster from APH for that.

http://www.jutoh.com/
https://daisy.org/activities/software/obi/
https://daisy.org/activities/software/tobi/
https://daisy.org/activities/software/pipeline-2/  


Hope this is some help give me a call if you have any questions.

Greg Kearney

> On Feb 5, 2020, at 9:20 AM, Jim Fettgather via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello list members:
> 
> I have been attempting to investigate into the most effective methods for creating DAISY audio training materials, and have seen only the APH  Book Wizard Producer, which appears not to have been updated since 2009.
> 
> I am hoping there may be a more contemporary accessible solution for the creation of this type of audio materials, so any suggestions will be most appreciated.
> Thanks.
> 
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> 
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> Jim Fettgather
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