Project
Title: Digital talking books: DAISY convertor
Introduction:
The DAISY Consortium envisions a world where people with print disabilities have equal
access to information and knowledge without delay or additional expense.
The DAISY Consortium develops, maintains and promotes international DAISY (Digital
Accessible Information System) Standards.
DAISY digital format assists people who, for various reasons, have challenges using regular
printed media. DAISY digital talking books offer the benefits of regular audiobooks, but they are
superior because DAISY includes navigation.
Project Brief:
The project was initiated in EPS 2011. The aim of this project was to develop a computer tool
able to work with digital talking books in Daisy format. Digital Accessible Information System, or
DAISY, is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear—and
navigate—written material presented in an audible format; many such listeners have "print
disabilities,"
including
blindness,
impaired
vision,
dyslexia
or
other
issues
(http://www.daisy.org).
This new tool has two different purposes:
1. From a text: create all the mp3 files using anopen access software for a synthesised voice,
create the structure and additional files in order to obtain a digital talking book in DAISY. It has
to cater for Catalan, Spanish and English texts and it has to be possible to choose between a
masculine or feminine voice.
2. From a digital talking book in Daisy: create all the mp3 files along with a playlist to be
reproduced with an ordinary digital audio player.
There are similar tools which execute these tasks to some extent. Among them, the most
interesting are:
http://www.nodo50.org/utlai/spg_u52.zip
http://www.nodo50.org/utlai/glhadia.zip
The 2012 EPS team will continue working on the project in order to expand and develop it
further.
Company
Name: Càtedra d’Accesibilitat
Project team:
Number of students: 3 to 5
Students speciality:
 Business Management
 Mechanical Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics Engineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Telecommunications Engineering