Janina, Thanks for all the info. I would definitely like to see the titles containing both text and audio. I'll include production of Daisy books in my gnomebrl project, which you can read about at http://www.chpi.org/gnomebrl.html . John On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > There are not now any open source tools either for reading or for > producing DAISY content with the sole exception that Emacspeak 16 > includes some level of support for DAISY 3.0 (the ANSI Z39.86-2002). The > only content currently available in DAISY 3.0 comes from BookShare and > is text-only. Titles from RFB&D in the U.S., RNIB in the U.K., and from > libraries in Canada, Sweden, and Japan is now DAISY 2.02, so is not > supported by Emacspeak 16, either. > > There was a meeting regarding this very issue following CSUN last year. > At this meeting I was tasked to chair a committee report to the DAISY > Board recommending that DAISY's next generation of user agents and > authoring tools use GPL/LGPL licensing, meaning that they would be open > source. The DAISY Board niether adopted nor rejected this > recommendation, and I believe the issue continues unresolved within the > DAISY Consortium. Regretfully, I am not attending their meeting later > this month in Korea. > > However, nothing prevents any one of us, or any group of us, from > initiating a project to create open source tools for DAISY. I would > expect that creating user agents would be comparatively simpler, and > provide the tool most needed. One would need to control audio file > playback of .wav and .mpg, while displaying text at the same time. There > are more issues, of course, but this ese are the basics in simplest > terms. Synchronization is achieved through SMIL 1.0 in the case of DAISY > 2.02 and SMIL 2.0 in the case of DAISY 3.0 > > Regretably, RFB&D has adopted a copyright scheme based on "security > through obscurity," so the unpacking agent would most likely need to be > binary only. > > Good authoring tools are another subject altogether, though there are > certainly component applications that could be incorporated, such as > docbook. > > I am happy to assist anyone wanting to look at taking this up to the > extent I can. One thing I can do is to send out several DAISY 2.02 > titles that are not encrypted and which provide both text and audio. I > expect to have such content for DAISY 3.0 in a few months. > > > John J. Boyer writes: > > From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> > > > > Hello, I am considering expanding our services to include Daisy books. > > They would have full text and also a voice. Is there software to do this > > in Linux? Is it open-source? What hardware is needed? How much does it > > cost? > > Thanks. > > John > > > > > > -- > > Computers to Help People, Inc. > > http://www.chpi.org > > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list