[Dtb-talk] DAISY for everyone

[David Andrews]

Greg:

I know that at one point the big picture plan was to have the Open 
E-Book Forum standard, and the DAISY standard merge.  I believe the 
Open E-book Forum name has been changed, but it's name is escaping 
me.  I haven't heard anything to indicate that this plan will change, 
although it will take some time to move each standard towards the other.

Dave

At 08:03 PM 12/31/2006, you wrote:
>In relation to my work of converting tone indexed book to DAISY I
>tried something else. I converted a commercial recorded book on CD's
>to DAISY format. The results were that I took a book that was three
>CD's with no meaningful navigation and converted it to DAISY 2.02 with
>chapter navigation, bookmarking and so on. The book went from over
>18,000 megabytes to 30 megabytes.
>
>Here is what I would like to see from the commercial vendors of
>recorded books. Along with their regular CD recording a DAISY disk as
>well. This is not hard for them to produce as they have digital
>recording of the books in  the first place. It took me less than an
>hour to do the conversion. If the recored book producers were to
>include a Daisy version with all the advantages of Daisy then we might
>see mass market Daisy playback devices. And a corresponding lowering
>in prices of such devices. At any rate convicting producers of such
>books to include a Daisy version or offering one would seem to be a
>benefit to the disabled. As for myself I own the recording in question
>and so have a right to convert it to what ever from I see fit.
>
>I do not even want to think about the legal issues of ever releasing
>commercially recored book as books for the blind. While many nations
>copyright laws extend the right of production in formats such as Daisy
>I would suspect that the "performances" on these recording are not
>covered under the same laws. Am I right?
>
>Greg Kearney
>
>For your information here are the steps I followed to convert a
>commercial recording to DAISY. This was done on a Macintosh computer
>but similar tools exist on Linux and Windows.
>
>1. Using SoX I batched converted all the CD AIFf files to .wav files
>as required by dtbmaker.
>
>2. I renamed the resulting files by chapter number and part:
>chap1.1.wav, chap1.2.wav and so on so that they would play in a a MP3
>player in order. In this way  it is possible to mover the files to an
>iPod or to use my Daisy to iPod converter application.
>
>3. I made up the dtbmaker control file calling each of the .wav files
>in turn like this:
>
><h1><voice name="Silence">Introduction</voice></h1>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/0intro.wav"></p>
><h1><voice name="Silence">Chapter 1.</voice></h1>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap1.1.wav"></p>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap1.2.wav"></p>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap1.3.wav"></p>
><h1><voice name="Silence">Chapter 2.</voice></h1>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap2.1.wav"></p>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap2.2.wav"></p>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap2.3.wav"></p>
>         <p><audio src="/Volumes/MacOS_10.4/disk/chap2.4.wav"></p>
>         ....
>
>Notice that I call the Cepstral Silence voice at the chapters as the
>recording announced the chapters.
>
>4. I used dtbmaker to process the file and generate the DAISY book
>files.
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