[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT listening to DAISY books
- From: Denise Thompson <deniset@xxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:10:36 -0700
Jill
I'm responding to your question about Daisy listening on list since
Scott expressed an interest as well.
Mine has been a journey of sorts. For a while I listened to them
using Code Factory's Mobile Daisy Player, but when BKS went to the
Daisy 3 format the books no longer worked with that software very
well. I guess I should say for those who aren't familiar with Mobile
Daisy Player, it is a software that runs on Nokia smart phones using
the Symbian operating system. Either Talks or Mobile Speak work as
screen readers on these phones. After mobile daisy player stopped
working, I unpacked the books and opened them upin Internet Explorer
and copied them to NotePad to save as text files. I always thought it
was so interesting that as a volunteer I scan and proof books that
are converted to daisy only to download them to read myself and
convert them back to text files. Then I could load the text files
onto my phone again and use a little free ware program called BRead
that also works on Symbian phones to listen to them. A couple of
years ago, Talks- the screen reader- came out with Daisy-2-go free to
use with Talk on Symbian phones, but it didn't support daisy3 so I
still continued to convert back to text to listen on my phone.
However about two weeks ago the latest update for Talks included a
new version of Daisy-2-go which now supports daisy 3 books. So I've
been going crazy listening to my daisy books on my phone. It's great
not to have to take that extra couple of steps to convert the books
back to text files. The screen reader Talks uses Eloquence speech
which I'm used to with Jaws so I'm a very happy camper reading my
little heart out. I like using my phone because it cuts down on
having to carry one more device with me.
A rather long answer, but there you have it. (smile)
Denise
At 01:42 PM 8/13/2010, you wrote:
I would be very interested to know how those of you who do not read
braille, listen to your Bookshare books, particularly in a portable
form so you don't have to remain tethered to your computer. I
believe the general opinion that doing this with the Victor Stream
voices is very unsatisfactory. I understand that converting to MP3
from Kurzweil is a possibility, but is anyone doing so in other
ways. As this is somewhat OT, you can contact me off list at
jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.
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