[Dtb-talk] turning word document into daisy format

[David Andrews]

This has been announced, but plug-in hasn't been released yet, also 
will need software to turn word.XML stuff to complete daisy.

I believe that Eclipse Writer will take in word and spit out daisy, 
as well some of the products from Dolphin.  Also can't remember if 
Book Wizard Producer from APH handles Word, but worth a look.

Dave

At 10:12 PM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
>A google search found this:
>
>Microsoft and DAISY Help Enhance Reading Experience for People ...
>       For Marks, the ability to "Save as DAISY" in Microsoft Office Word
>represents an important validation of disabled users' needs and sends a
>powerful message ...
>       www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/nov07/11-13daisy.mspx -
>14k -
>       Cached - Similar pages
>
>Automatic generation of DAISY talking books from Word
>       Microsoft and DAISY announce a plug-in to convert Word to the
>accessible DAISY format used by many people with print-disabilities.
>       www.it-director.com/business/compliance/content.php?cid=10056 - 42k -
>       Cached - Similar pages
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
>To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] turning word document into daisy format
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>: 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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