[gui-talk] reading bookshare.org books on the MLSplayerthrough a flash drive

[Patrick J]

Thanks, I saw in the Utilities sub-menu how to create daisy files.  Does not 
look all that difficult.

Patrick
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From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
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> Exactly; works like a charm, depending of course on your Kurzweil version.
> I do it with version 11, and version 123 has added some features for
> transferring to portable devices.  You can use any voice Kurzweil can
> recognize to generate the book.
>
> Dean
>
>
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> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Patrick J
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] reading bookshare.org books on the MLS 
> playerthrough
> a flash drive
>
> 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>
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> 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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