Correct about this. It is the joint project of DAISY Consortium and Microsoft. Sourceforge comes into play since this would dbe an open source tool hosted on source forge. Thanks Dipendra
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 13 November 2007 20:42 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] plugin for Microsoft Word files to daisy talking books Following article seems a bit misinformation, as it says that microsoft and sourceforge will provide a plugin, which seems wrong, as sourceforge is a portal hosting opensource projects, but I may be wrong, and sourceforge might be directly involved, but I suspect that this should be the work of daisy organization. CNET News Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Microsoft Word files to serve as talking books By Elsa Wenzel Microsoft and open-source site SourceForge http://www.sourceforge.net/ will offer a free plug-in early next year that will convert Office 2007 files to the DAISY format that translates text to speech. The free tool will add a "Save as DAISY" option within Word 2007, 2003 and XP software. DAISY XML files can be read aloud by speech synthesizers, paired with audio narration and used to create electronic Braille. Users can navigate open-standard DAISY documents quickly by jumping between page elements, such as headers and indexes. The DAISY Consortium of 70 nonprofits has aimed since 1996 to make all published information available to people with visual impairments and learning disabilities. The acronym stands for Digital Accessible Information System. http://www.daisy.org/ Digital narration serves computer users with visual impairments, people with learning challenges like dyslexia, as well as those with Parkinsons disease and other conditions that make it hard to type or hold a book. With the release of the Office 2007 suite in January, Microsoft shunned the popular, XML-based Open Document Format for its own, new Open XML format. The OOXML documents, which include Word files with the DOCX extension, are easier to retrieve if corrupted than the older DOC files. Versions of Word prior to 2007 can open OOXML documents after a one-time download of a free converter from Microsoft. However, critics gripe that Microsoft's format change was unnecessary and clumsy. Microsoft maintains that the new format enables greater flexibility, such as accessibility features. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815836-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs Regards Dinesh Kaushal blog at dineshkaushal.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pranay Gadodia Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:52 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Episode 28 of Eyeway Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karawan Dear friends, This is a late posting about our radio show series, as i was on holidays for a full week and resumed office only today. There are many students across the country whose blindness have never stopped them excelling in their studies and extra curri-cular activities. One such example is with us in episode 28 - Rahul Gambhir. Rahul is now a student of First year B.A. in Venkateshwara college in Delhi. Studied in mainstream schools throughout and a very outbound he is like any other youngster. In the profile section, listen to the success story of a dashing personality, who is a well known actor and a musician of United States. He is Rick Boggs. Tom Alter is with us once again, to tell us how Rick's life is a true example of how adversity can be turned into advantage. By now you all know that Score Foundation has a helpdesk, where people call or write and ask about issues related to eye and blindness. On the medical front, we have got many queries related to retina problems such as retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, retina detachment, etc. So to address many of these we called in the advice section of our show, a well known retina expert from Delhi, Dr.Cyrus Shroff. So, don't miss out on listening to episode 28 of Eyeway Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karawan online at www.eyeway.org/include/radio/radio.php. Here navigate down to the heading of Internet Broadcasting and click on the link of the Episode. The episode would be there till 15th November 2007 Thursday morning, before being replaced by the subsequent episode. Let your acquaintances also know about this online radio show. Thanks and regards, Pranay Gadodia, Project Eyeway - A comprehensive information helpdesk on eye & blindness Helpdesk # +91 9968 329 329 (Monday to Friday 11am to 5pm) C/o Score Foundation. 125-B, Shahpur Jat, New Delhi - 110 049 INDIA. Mobile: +91 98917 91089 Office Phone: +91 - 11 - 2649 4582/81 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.eyeway.org To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. 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