[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT listening to DAISY books
- From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:29:32 -0500
my wife and I read the daisy books on the stream or the Icon/braille plus.
While the stream voices aren't my favorite, I can live with them and the
icon/braille plus use elloquence.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Thompson
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:11 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT listening to DAISY books
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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