Hello Friends: My name is Brijesh Kumar and I represent a non-governmental organization (NGO), Manav Ekta Mission, which is an initiative of The Satsang Foundation started by Sri M (Shri Mumtaz Ali), who is a spiritual luminary and an educationist.
This mail is to share with you some developments we have on the front of Digital Talking Books (DTBs). You may be aware that DAISY Consortium is an international organization working on eXtensible Markup (XML) based standards on how to structure and package content to be rendered and used as DTBs and automatic transformation to Paperless Braille Devices or Braille Print Books or Large Print. We recently conducted a training programme for AICB engineers at the Digital Media Initiatives' office on the conversion process of print text books to DAISY format and further transformation to DTBs. These DTBs are rapidly generated and use synthetic voice rendered in English at this time. Manav Ekta Mission is association with Digital Media Initiatives has a target of converting a thousand books/ text-books into DTB format. I would like to know in this context that if there are many persons who are currently using a handheld DTB/ EPUB Player and a device that generates line-by-line output on a handheld paperless braille? Will this conversion of a thousand books and textbooks help many people who are visually challenged? We also wish to offer the tutorials/ training programme and a certification programme of this conversion process to IT enabled persons who have a basic understanding of HTML and who who are good at English. Would there be many who could be interested in to know how a print book can be converted into a DTB? BTW, to share with all, an interesting idea and project which we call WALK OF HOPE. The Walk of Hope is a walkathon, a padayatra, which we at Manav Ekta Mission are going to undertake from the southern tip of India, from Kanyakumari till Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in the north. We will walk for a little over 6800 kilometers, through 11 states and 86 districts of India during 2015-16. We are commencing this walk on January 12, 2015 from Kanyakumari. We will walk 18 to 20 kilometers a day and for about 500 days. The Walk of Hope is led by Sri M, the founder of Manav Ekta Mission. The purpose of the walk is non-political and is to spread Peace, Harmony and Human Oneness amongst the fellow-beings. Human to human and Human to the Nature. Sri M says: Born Human. Be Human. Every Step for Humanity. Look forward to hearing from you soon! Best Regards, Dr. Brijesh Kumar Digital Talking Books Expert Digital Media Initiatives and Manav Ekta Mission Convener, Walk of Hope 2015-16 <www.walkofhope.in> <intern.walkofhope.in> Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..