that's exactly correct. The audio situation is somewhat better because it is within the realm of possibility for Bookshare to buy non-English voices so as to more accurately render the text, but since there is no universal Braille standard, attempting to download a Hindi or Arabic book in English BRF will give you incomprehensible results, assuming you get anything at all. That said, I believe there are several languages that utilize the Roman alphabet, German for example because I have personal experience with reading it, whose Braille codes are so similar to those in English, save for a few accent marks, that they should be offered in BRF format.
On 23-Oct-13 02:25, Valerie Maples wrote:
Misha is correct, I was told only to use a bilingual tagging on books
that are truly two languages comprehensively throughout because the
braille tool is unable to render it correctly since braille standards
are different in different countries. I don't believe anything can
come of it until A universal standard is achieved. Then again, you're
talking about a sighted person speaking out of subject she knows
nothing about. Smiles.
Valerie
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*From:* misha <mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:01 PM
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: So far no dual language books I've
checked on bookshare are available in any format but DAISY text
I seem to recall someone else mentioned, some time ago, that if a
book is submitted with more than one language selected it does not
show up as available in brf. Ever since then, I've only selected
US English or British English for the books I submit even when
they have many foreign words or phrases in them.
Misha
On 10/22/2013 1:36 PM, Judy s. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've spent the last hour checking to see if there is a pattern
in the books that are only showing up in the collection as
available in DAISY text.
>
> So far, every book I checked that was submitted in the last year
that was submitted as having more than one language is only
available as a DAISY text file. This includs books submitted by
volunteers and by outsourcers as well. I didn't find any
publisher quality books that were submitted as having more than
one language, so I have no idea if they would have the same problem.
>
> I've summarized my findings and sent them to bookshare support.
>
> This sure seems like a consistent problem, and I hope to hear
soon that Bookshare has a solution that makes all of these titles
available in audio and BRF.
>
> Patti, I'm so glad you posted about this! smile. All of these
books should be available in all possible accessible formats.
>
> Judy s.
>
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