[bcab] Re: dasy software packages?

Hello Simon

A Daisy book works by synchronising audio with text - the computer navigates 
the sudio file by reading the text and then jumping to the section of audio 
that is pointed to. Therefore you cannot take an audio file and turn it into a 
Daisy book - you have o take an audio file and a text file. You could take an 
audio book with, say, 13 chapters, create a text file that consisted of the 
title plus chapter 1, chapter 2 etc and create a Daisy book that could jump to 
each chapter, but to nothing else.

Dolphin used to maje a pretty good product called EasePublisher which was fully 
accessible, or you could try www.daisy.org for a listof people who offer tools, 
both free and commercial. Plextor made a player which allowed you to record 
audio and mark it up as you go to create your own Daisy files - this was a 
piece of hardware and accessible.

HTH
Tony

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  hello list, 
  I have recently got a portable daisy talking book player, and would like to 
start making my own daisy book disks, from my own audio library. 
  please can anyone recommend a good fully featured daisy creating software 
package? it needs to be fully accessible, using window-eyes. 

  the package needs to be fully featured, as I would like to make the disks 
fully navigable, as I will probably put several books, radio series, or audio 
described film audio tracks, on to one disk, and would like to be able to 
select which book or series I want, and easily navigate my way around that book 
or series, by chapter or episode, or if a particular series had several seasons 
of it, I would like to be able to navigate by series, season, or episode. I 
hope I have explained that ok. however, just to make things interesting, the 
audio books in my library, are all formatted differently, as there are some, 
that have only as many files, as there were tapes or cds in the original, there 
are some, that have been taken from cd, with each track on each cd being a 
file, and there are some, that have just been formatted as a single big file 
for the whole book. 

  also, the stuff I have, has not all been encoded at the same bit rate, and I 
have had problems with some mp3 disks before, that will play perfectly in mp3 
cd players, dvd players, and my computer, but when I try to play them in my 
talking book machine, it says something like "audio format not supported" even 
though they are mp3 files, and I would like the software package to be able to 
sort this out if possible, as it is probably something simple, such as 
re-encoding the mp3 files, in a bit rate that the talking book machine will 
handle. 

  it would also be quite useful, if the package could have some equaliser, 
volume boosting, sound enhancement, and unwanted noise removal tools. as some 
of the stuff I have, either because it was taken from very old recordings, was 
recorded at too lower level on one or both channels, or encoded at too lower 
bit rate, doesn't sound that good, which is something, that I would really like 
to improve if possible, before making daisy disks of it. 

  it would also be nice, if the package could actually record directly from a 
line or digital in, as I still have a lot of stuff on tape, dat, and minidisk. 
and if it could also take audio from standard audio cds, which I could use the 
drive in the computer to read, it would be even better. 

  finally, if possible, I would like the package, to be able to work with 
different audio formats, as not all the stuff in my library is in mp3 format, 
some of it is in .ogg, some in .wma, some in standard uncompressed .wav, and 
some in a form of compressed .wav format. I think it is going to be a bit much, 
to expect the software to work with things like free lossless audio codec, and 
monkeys audio files, but if the daisy software package could also use existing 
audio codec's, even this could be possible. 

  Simon Wilkes,
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  02082200261, +442082200261 if outside of UK, 
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  07957880038, +447957880038 if outside of UK. 




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