[gui-talk] what is dazy, niso and viktor reader

[lras]

The DAISY format can include books having text only, text with audio, or 
audio only.  Books from RFB&D and from NLS, at this time, are audio 
recordings with no text.  NLS very rarely has their narrators spell  words. 
RFB&D will spell words more often.  So you may have to work with a human 
reader and a print copy of the book to get some of the spellings.

Bookshare books are NISO text format.  Most of them have been scanned and 
run through optical character recognition, so there are some errors.  And I 
don't know whether they have anything that would be helpful to you in your 
courses.

I am writing from my brother's house in San Diego.  Judy is with her parents 
in Illinois.  We will both be back home in Kensington by December 28.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tatyana" <tagrig at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:35 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] what is dazy, niso and viktor reader


> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm a perspective student
> I'm trying to understand what is NISO books and what is DAZY books and 
> what is the difference between
> The recording for the blind and dyslexic,  offers machines to play 
> audiobooks, software and option to download books from their web- site. 
> I'm wondering, is it human voice prerecorded audio cd or text files  and 
> speach synthesizer reads it for me?
>
> I need a possibility to spell words while I'm listening to a book since 
> English is my second language. It's esencial   feature, especially when I 
> hear anatomy latin terms. Does  that feature  exist  in audio books?
>
> Thank you
> Tatyana.
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