[bcab] Re: dasy software packages?

Hi Tony,

 

Plextalk have two players that do this now, the PTR2, and the PTP Pocket.
The Pocket is a great little device if you want to record Daisy from a line
in source.

 

We will be selling a software based recorder from January 2009 called Daisy
Max.  You can find information about this from http://www.dlinfo.de
<http://www.dlinfo.de/>  where you can even download a free trial.

 

All the best

 

Steve

 

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From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tony Dart
Sent: Tuesday 30 December 2008 21:34
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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goshawk 
phone, 
02082200261, +442082200261 if outside of UK, 
mobile, (voice or text) 
07957880038, +447957880038 if outside of UK. 

 

 



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