daisy reader

[david poehlman]

tab to the text and it should work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: daisy reader


It might be the book i am using, but this one remains on the main menu
while talking.
Can you recall with which book you tested? If it is downloadable, I would
like to grab that for more testing of the various readers.
TIA,Willem


On Mon, 9 May 2005, david poehlman wrote:

> interesting, I found that it does synchronize text with voice.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:00 AM
> Subject: Re: daisy reader
>
>
> Hello,
> The player by Jos works well and is easy to install, but it does not
> synchronize the text with the audio at all.
> It is the most stable among the players that i have tested.
> If it is a daisy book with audio only and just the basic ncc file, it is a
> good tool to use.
> As it uses lynx, one can easily find a heading by using lynx's own search
> feature.  It does not implement speed control, but in some situations, one
> can live with that.
> Listen-up once it is ready would be the most feature-Rich player of the
> ones I have tested.
> I kind of like the Perl script daisy player, but it seem buggy to me.  I
> was also trying to get Idair going, but One needs a lot of extra tcl
> packages and it seem to run under X regardless of its claim to be a
> command-line daisy player.  I got all  the required packages installed,
> and will ask a sighted person to see if it is actually running.
> Most of my tests were done using the Access World magazine daisy book that
> can be found on the speakup site.
> I could get no where with the daisy player that is built into emacspeak,
> but i am not conversant in emacspeak so it might have been my stupidity
> rather than the lack of functionality in the program.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Aldo wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:35:48AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>>> Are the elements in the TOC navigable? Can I go next, next next, item by
>>> item? Can I go previous, previous, previous, item by item? Can I adjust
>>> the granularity and move next next next by chapter, or next next next by
>>> page? Or previous?
>> Navigating is quite intuitive, the reaction in Jos' daisyplayer is
>> immediate, I don't know which features it should have more or less than
>> Listenup, but maybe you can download and try it.
>>
>>> If so, can I do this from within the content? Or do I need to go back to
>>> the TOC to do this?
>> The content in Jos' daisyplayer is played while you still are in Lynx,
>> and can switch toanother chapter or so, so you continuously see the
>> total "menu" of your cd.
>>
>> In Yannick's daisyreader you are not using Lynx as interface, so you
>> can't do what you told above, but these two players are very very easy
>> to install; maybe an effort can be done for Listenup so that more people
>> can download and install it without having to read any doc or becoming a
>> scientific :-)
>>
>>> DAISY would require this kind of navigation within the structure. Early
>>> in the NISO specification process we specifically discussed this, and
>>> there are supporting documents to describe these things.
>>
>> In my opinion, the most powerful application in the world can't be
>> considered as 100% as long as it requires more efforts to install it
>> than efforts to use it.
>>
>>> PS: Though many books may not provide multiple navigational levels, the
>>> spec does support multiple levels.
>>
>> At this moment, as well in France as in Belgium where I live, lots of
>> magazines are on cassettes; in the Netherland they have migrate to Daisy
>> since 2004; I just asked for a cd, tried one from the speakup-goodies...
>> but that's all, the goal/my goal was to check if I was able to obtain a
>> daisy player who was functional and easy to install and to use.
>>
>> Aldo.
>>
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