[Dtb-talk] Over the Top in Darkness as Daisy

[Greg Kearney]

I am a programmer for a hospital. As part of that work we needed to  
convert some legal document to DAISY format. At that time the software  
to do this was in excess of $4000. So I sat down and wrote DTBmaker (http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker 
) a free, open source digital talking book production software from  
Macintosh and Linux. Over a year or so I have added to that software  
making small improvements to it as time permits. One of the  
improvements I recently made was to be able to take collections of  
audio files and create DASIY books from them. Which is what I did here.

So I guess I am a one man daisy conversion project of sorts. I suppose  
I could offer a tutorial on how I do these using DTBmaker. DTBmaker  
for Macintosh, the only version with a full GUI that is VoiceOVer  
compatible has extensive help and documentation under the help menu.

I'm not a Windows programmer and I hope that someone who is might take  
up the task of giving DTBmaker a Windows version. THe basic program is  
a Perl script.

Greg Kearney


On Jul 13, 2007, at 14:37 , DanFlasar at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>     I'm not familiar with your operation.  Are you a one-man daisy  
> conversion project?  Are you doing this to
> become familiar with the process or to open up books confined in one  
> format to a more accessible one? Do you offer tutorials on how it's  
> done?
>    I am always amazed at how much is going on in the world of  
> accessibility!
> Dan
>
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