The DAISY that BookShare uses is supposed to be DAISY 3.0 (though it isn't, quite). Listen-Up only reads DAISY 2.X. hth Steve Holmes writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Not quite related, I tried to open up the directory containing several > daisy books I already exported or unpacked from bookshare with listen-up > and all I seem to get is a blank screen with the listen-up menu bar on > top. Wonder what could be going wrong here. I know bookshare > apparently doesn't support daisy in the O'Reily books but I thought I'd > give it a try with listen-up to see what happens. I thought listen-up > supported text yeah? > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:30:33PM -0400, Trevor Astrope wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > >Don't you mean A P H > > > > Yep! Thanks for the correction. > > > > >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 > > > > Thanks. I've already read those excellent articles. <grin> I don't recall > > seeing a review of the BookPort though. Also, I would have liked more > > information on the sound quality of each player. I thought the Victor > > Classic sounded much better then the standard 4-track players, but that > > could also be due to better quality of the source material. > > > > Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is if it is possible to use all the > > features of the BookPort without windows? And specifically, how difficult > > is it to create daisy books in linux if that is all that is required for > > the BookPort to read files transfered via the usb port in linux... > > > > I know I should be asking this question to APH (there, got it right this > > time), but I'm afraid I already did. Unfortunately, I got a condescending > > answer, and I quote, "Windows format is pretty standard, and most widely > > used and all of your screen readers support it." > > > > Thanks, > > > > Trevor > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFC39F8WSjv55S0LfERA8pAAJ0UITUDKo2kz0inHWGa5tEPhGvEuQCgiC6B > KZUyuaUFoPefJV7RYP5mRhI= > =L14d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
