Sounds very good and promissing. All the best for your project. Yours,
Professor Shyam M. Sayanekar
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From: "Dr Brijesh [Walk of Hope]" <hope2...@walkofhope.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:08 PM
Subject: [AI] Digital Talking Books and DAISY Readers
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>
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