[Dtb-talk] turning word document into daisy format

[Greg Kearney]

Rick;

It is possible with the Daisy Pipeline to convert Word 2003 XML or  
XHTML to DTBook XML files which can then be used in the Pipeline to  
produce a full text/full audio book using text to speech. You would  
likely have to edit the resulting file do get a clean DTBook file. The  
Pipeline is very fussy about everything being perfect.

The other option is to use a computer to record text to speech of the  
various part of the book and then use DTBmkaer (w3.wmcnet.org/ 
dtbmaker/) to place those recording into a simple book. DTBmaker is a  
Macintosh program. Also on a mac you could use the built in command  
line program textutil to convert MS Word documents to HTML and then  
use the Pipeline.

There is supposed to be some work on a Word to DTBook converter being  
done but I don't know a whole lot about it.



Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney at gmail.com

On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:39 PM, rick watson wrote:

>
> Good afternoon listers,
> I have just recently started researching digital talking books. Up  
> to this point I have scanned a lot of what I wanted to read into  
> word documents.
> The point of my message was to ask you knowledgeable folks if there  
> was a simple way to convert the word document into daisy. Either  
> spoken audio or marked up text?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
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