RE: Daisy/Dtbook/OPF simple example

What do you plan to do with the MP3 file?  Play it standalone on any MP3
player?  AMIS is not an authoring tool, but a player.  It can play text-only
Daisy documents through various speech synthesizers on your computer, but it
doesn't convert anything.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arnold Bailey
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 3:53 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Daisy/Dtbook/OPF simple example
> 
> Hi Lloyd,
> 
> I'm just starting and I've been trying to filter through all the
> information. I'm still not sure of the process that I need to follow:
> 
> 
> 1.    I created a dtbook xml file from open office that looks good as per
> the daisy documentation. It's a simple document with a table of contents
> and a number of h1/h2/h3 items. I'm using it just to find out what
> processing I'll need to create an mp3 file at the end.
> 2.    I originally thought I needed the daisy pipeline to do some kind of
> conversion? After I looked at the daisy xml file, I didn't see where I
> needed daisy pipeline.
> 3.    So, I went to AMIS, because it is free and appeared to be what I
> needed to get to an audio file.
> 4.    I found out though, that I needed an OPF file as input. I believe it
> contains the daisy xml that was generated by OO with tags around it that
> describe the book itself externally?
> 5.    It was here that I've been trying to pull together the wrapping of
> the daisy xml file to create the OPF file.
> 6.    I don't use an SMIL file. Do I need to with a text-only document?
> 7.    I'm not sure about the daisy 2.02. I can't remember if AMIS required
> it or not.
> 
> Can you fill me in on where I need to look or generally what I need to do
> to get to the audio mp3?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Lloyd Rasmussen <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>       Hi.  I assume you intend to produce according to the Z39.86-2005
> standard,
>       rather than Daisy 2.02.  If you are doing an audio version of a web
> page,
>       you are running the XML file through text-to-speech, perhaps using
> the DAISY
>       Pipeline?  Will you produce an NCX or SMIL files?  Is there enough
>       information in the AMIS documentation to tell you what it requires?
> 
>       At a minimum, I would say that an OPF should have the following
> items:
> 
>       Dc:title, dc:publisher, dc:format  and dc:identifier so that, if
> your
>       production is distributed, people know what it is and who did it.
>       Dc:identifier is used in constructing bookmarks in a player.
> Dc:format
>       tells a player what version of the standard the book purports to
> adhere to.
> 
>       In the x-metadata section, dtb:title tells a player how long the
> book is, if
>       it contains audio.
> 
>       A manifest section lists all of the files in the book
> 
>       A spine section lists all of the SMIL files in the book, in reading
> order.
> 
>       I know that the AMIS player, because of the way Daisy 2.02 books
> were
>       produced, expects to find separate SMIL files for each navPoint (or
> at least
>       the SMIL files are not expected to be very complex.
> 
>       I work on this stuff in the Z39.86-2002 format all the time for NLS,
> and
>       serve on the committee that is planning how to update the -2005
> standard, so
>       I may be able to help.
> 
>       Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
>       Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>       Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
> 
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-
>       > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arnold Bailey
>       > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:18 AM
>       > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       > Subject: Daisy/Dtbook/OPF simple example
>       >
> 
>       > Hi all,
>       >
>       > I'm trying to develop a prototype to present, to  the viewer,
> audio (from
>       > a DAISY file) of the web page. I'm using an Open Office extension
> to
>       > create a dtbook xml file. I have to create an OPF (package) file
> to
>       > describe it before it can be input to the audio application
> (AMIS). The
>       > document is pretty basic. I'm just trying to debug the process.
> Does
>       > anyone know where I can get some simple examples of how to create
> this opf
>       > file? I've looked at some of the NAMIS examples; but, they involve
> full
>       > books and are fairly complex. Any inputadvice/guidance would be
>       > appreciated.
>       >
>       > Arnold
>       >

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