[Dtb-talk] NLS Digital Talking Book Cartridge and Player

[David B Andrews]

Yes, if the developers update them to handle the new codec and data
rights management system that NLS is using.

Dave



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>>> david at attainmentcompany.com 10/23/2006 12:21 PM >>>
Or putting the question a bit differently, will the DAISY DTB
content data
distributed by the NLS be easily dropped into one of the several
PC-based
DAISY text/audio screen readers? Presumably, the content will be
standardized DAISY/DTB, right?

That prompts me to follow-up with another question -- is the NLS
DTB content
using the XML-based v3 construction or the HTML-based v2
specification?

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[mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Player

Do you know if there will be any pc based players? 

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> >>> William Graczyk <Wgracz at MPL.ORG> 10/23/2006 10:36 AM >>>
>I am on the National Library Service's National Audio Equipment
>Advisory Committee, and after the Committee met last month,
Michael
>Katzmann (Acting Chief, NLS Materials Development Division) sent
>committee members two pictures of the nearly-final prototypes of
the DTB
>cartridge, mailing container and player. He encouraged committee
members
>to spread the news of the progress that has been made in the
digital
>talking book program so I posted the pictures on my web site.  I
also
>wrote up a very detailed  (though still not comprehensive)
description
>of the player and cartridge that may be useful to folks who cannot
see
>the images at all.  After spending two and a half days
test-driving the
>player and DTB last month, I want to say emphatically that they
are
>going to be well worth the wait. Note that the prototype lacks
the
>braille and raised letter embossing that will be on the final
versions.
>Congress willing, there's only one more federal fiscal year to
wait!
>
>The images and descriptions are at:
>
>http://blindreaders.info/dtb.html 
>
>Bill Graczyk
>
>
>
>William Graczyk
>Reader Advisor and Braille Librarian
>Wisconsin Regional Library for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped
>Library Web Site: http://regionallibrary.wi.gov 
>Personal Web Site: The Blind Readers Page:
http://blindreaders.info/ 
>
>---------------------------

David Andrews and white cane Harry.


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