Hi Alex and Brent, Thanks for responding. The daisy books I want to use aren't from RFB. They are just daisy format. I obtained access to them via my online corse via handiham.org as part of my online ham radio classes. I'd like to sort out how this form of digital audio book is used as I heard either in the handi ham weekly news letter or the rain report podcast that h.h. are looking to provide more of their learning resources through the daisy format in the near future and have posted 2 or 3 books on their site. According to their site they provide links to an open source program that reads the files and links to an unpacking tool that reconfigures the files in the book without fuss so the player can use them.
I need to sort out a non-windows way of using these files on the mac but haven't a clue where to start. I looked on the cucat web pages, you know that site that has all the VO friendly mac programs and found a book player. I just don't know how to use it as the user's guide is in daisy which is is about as useful to me as a print guide to reading braille. : smile : I need to know if we need a secondary program like this windows unpacking tool to get all the files in the correct order or do you just download all the files of a given daisy book to a folder and then just leave them in the folder and open whatever it is you're meant to open via the player? I'm sorry for being so thick about all this. I guess this is how some older people must feel when trying to master the computer at first. I'm sure once I understand daisy conventions for saving, ordering and accessing files I'll be like "Oh duh this is really easy how could it ever of been hard?" As for the text to audio stuff. Alex what is this program of which you speak? Where can I get it? It isn't as massively complex as all this daisy stuff is it? : grin :. On Screenless switchers Darcy did a really good presentation of doing this via automater but I got quite hopelessly lost. I don't really understand automater or how to use it. I know it's meant to make things easy like doing repetive actions on the computer like macros but I'm shy about fiddling with it as too many blue screens of death and the like have left me uneasy about doing anything that could cause the system to crash. I know that is a bad windows mindset. But I'm just a year off windows and spent 12 or 13 years as a windows user so some habbits are hard to overcome. Okay well Benjamin my baby son is trying to eat my iPod ear buds again! and Skye is being too quiet so I have to dash off for now. If anyone can help me out that would be very lovely. Best regards. Jenny On 7/2/09, Brent Harding <bhard...@doorpi.net> wrote: > > I don't think there's a way to play RFB on it, is there? I thought there was > something called Katieplayer back when, but I heard they went out of > business. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Jurgensen" <asquare...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: Audio howto requests: DAISY Books and making text to speach > Audiobook files > > >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't know what Holly and Darcy used for conversion, but my free >> tool does the trick. >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 2-Jul-09, at 4:55 PM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi everybody, >>> I was wondering if anyone has done or could do an audio howto on the >>> following... >>> >>> Using DAISY books and their assorted players on the mac. I'm sorry >>> but the whole consept of these cutting edge books goes over my head. >>> How do they work? Why are there so many confusing files? What is this >>> "DNA" file thing and how to use it? How do you unpack a massive lot of >>> daisy files and put them all back together? What software is best to >>> use with VO? Just stuff like that. >>> >>> And secondly, I know Darcy and Holly covered it on screenless >>> switchers how to make a text file into an audio book for iPod but I >>> got sort of lost so is there an easy way to do it or could someone >>> explain it again? If not it is alright. >>> orry to cut this short. Skye and Benjamin are wanting ther inner. >>> Quick and much thanks >>> Jenny >>> >>> > >> >> >> > >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
