Don't you mean A P H I think you've got your alphabet soups mixed up. However, if you want to know more about what DAISY is all about, and by inference, what the software is doing, you might want to read some of my articles from Access World about this: http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050104 http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050103 Trevor Astrope writes: > Can anyone recommend a good daisy reader? I've checked out the Victor > Classic+ locally, and it seems like a nice machine, but I really like the > features of the AFB BookPort that has text to speech built-in. I asked AFB > if it would work with linux and they said that you need to use the windows > software in order for it to read the files. Does anyone know what the > software is doing? Does it just convert the text file to the daisy format? > If you could prepare your files in the daisy format on your linux machine > before transfering the files, would they work? And if so, is there any > software available for linux that converts text to the daisy format? > > Any info or experiences with the daisy readers out there is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Trevor > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org