On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:17:48PM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > While only an idea, > > I have considered writing a digital talking book player for my final year > project. I'm not sure how hard this will be, but if it is within my > technical grasp to do an initial version I will do it! It shouldn't be to hard for you as a CS-student, I've got a start for one, but I'm missing a (free) mp3-library with good support for searching on timecodes in the mp3-file, this is needed to support DTBs in a good way. I've only found a non-free lib :(. In general since everyhting is XML-based it's fairly easy to implement a simple reader that presents a lynxlike UI and that plays the music, but since you might want to add more UI-types, such as speech, linebased (like ed), and even a full graphical GUI (hey, we seeing people does enjoy DTB as much as you blind guys do, and we like our GUIs (most of us at least) :), and there is much more that can be added, the project can grow quite a bit out of hand... /Peter, who has to little time, and to many projects... -- Alpha Test Version: Too buggy to be released to the paying public. Beta Test Version: Still too buggy to be released. Release Version: Alternate pronunciation of "Beta Test Version".