[gui-talk] reading bookshare.org books on the MLS playerthrough a flash drive
Patrick J
pjm at nrvunwired.net
Tue Jun 15 12:10:52 UTC 2010
Dean,
If I am following you correctly, I can download bookshare.org books, run
them through K1000 to convert to daisy format, which is then readable by the
NLS player?
Thanks,
Patrikc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] reading bookshare.org books on the MLS playerthrough
a flash drive
> To complete these thoughts, there are a variety of ways to turn Bookshare
> books into mp3 or Daisy files generated by other synthesizers which can be
> read on the NLS player. The easiest, and most expensive, involve either
> Kurzweil 1000 or Open Book. Those can produce Daisy files generated by
> whatever voice is on your computer. Other programs like Text Out Loud can
> produce mp3 files, then there is a free program to turn them into Daisy
> files. We can discuss this further if it is pertinent.
>
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of David Andrews
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:10 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] reading bookshare.org books on the MLS player
> through a flash drive
>
> That machine will not read a book from bookshare. It does not have
> synthesized speech in it.
>
> Dave
>
> At 09:34 AM 6/14/2010, you wrote:
>> Grooup,
>>
>> Is there something special I need to do to get my NLS player to
> read
>>a book I've downloaded from bookshare and copied onto an 8 gig Toshiba
> flash
>>drive? I've been getting an "Text Only Book" error message when I
>>copy over the compressed file or decompressed files.
>
> David Andrews: dandrews at visi.com
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>
>
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