Saturday, March 15, 2008

CSUN: DAISY Production from a Text Source

Ron Stewart, Peter Proscia, Dennis Leas, Reed Shaffner and George Kerscher

Starting in MS Word adding in headings and alt tags.
Using DAISY Converter to convert the doc to daisy.
Requires TTS: Text To Speech, for audio output.

Eclipse Wizard: another DAISY production tool. Eclipse has other tools as well. Seems like a good tool.
Uses DNA file format: Small file which contains text and structure information. DNA can export to a wide range of devices.

MS Word export to DAISY.
Goals: -reduce barriers to baseline production.
-Clean up what people consume.
-Bring DAISY to mainstream population.
New beta available on source forge on May 21.

gh, LLC
Service: media conversion.
Product: gh Player
quick ad dirty text to DAISY with minimal heading information.

DAISY pipeline
Open source / accessible
Adequate for larger production.



A few notes here: DAISY Pipeline is a tool that CILS currently uses as part of our DAISY production process. I was particularly impressed with Eclipse, and I think we’ll demo it once we’re back in the office. The other useful tool will be the MS Word export to DAISY tool, which should significantly lower the barrier to basic DAISY production for many people. It seems to me that this will be useful for professors and other instructors who need to make materials available to students.

We also met with George Kerscher while at CSUN… He moderated this session. He's a man who really seems to understand the things, and he’s a strong advocate for DAISY. A little while ago I posted a YouTube vid of him discussing DAISY.

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