Greg, thank you very much. : smile : That first one with the really long name is what I have now. I'm going to check out all the other programs as well to see what one fits me best. I like that cucat site quite a lot as I've found all sorts of useful things. All the best. Jenny
On 7/2/09, Greg Kearney <gkear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is a bit some informationi on digital talking books on the Mac. > > There are two players for the Mac under development. > > Olearia - developed by Curtin University and teh ABQWA in Australia it > is a Mac native application which will eventually come to the iPhone > and iPod Touch as well. It is open source and can be found in early > beta form at http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ > > Emerson - under development at the Swedish talking book library, > Emerson is a cross platform Java based product which runs on all major > OSs. It can be downlaoded from: > http://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/ > > Digital talking books can be loaded to most, but not all hardware > devices using teh MacOS finder with USB. > > Hope this is a help. > > Greg Kearney > Association for the Blind of western Australia > > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Jenny Kennedy<blueskyes9112...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Gregory Kearney > Manager Accessible Media > Association for the Blind of Western Australia > 61 Kitchener Ave. > Victoria Park 6100 Western Australia > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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