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The Evolving World of Digital Audio Books and Players

The Evolving World of Digital Audio Books and Players. South Carolina Assistive Technology Expo March 15, 2011 Presenters: Lee Speer, Clay Jeffcoat, and Marty McKenzie, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind. Objectives.

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The Evolving World of Digital Audio Books and Players

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  1. The Evolving World of Digital Audio Books and Players South Carolina Assistive Technology Expo March 15, 2011 Presenters: Lee Speer, Clay Jeffcoat, and Marty McKenzie, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind

  2. Objectives • Identify a variety of digital book players for people with visual impairments and learning styles. • Identify sources for obtaining digital books and players. • Update on new digital audio book players and refinements to existing players that benefit readers of all ages.

  3. Digital Audio books There are a variety of audio book styles: • Plain text • Text with markup • Plain audio • Audio with markup • Audio, text and markup.

  4. Available formats • mp3 • wav • ogg • wma • xml • Daisy (Digital Assessable Information Sys)

  5. Free Digital Books Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Loud Lit http://www.loudlit.org/ Librivox http://librivox.org/ Check your local library

  6. Membership required Audio Books RFBD: http://www.rfbd.org/ Bookshare: http://www.bookshare.org/ NLS: http://www.loc.gov/nls/ Audible: http://www.audible.com/

  7. Obtaining Digital Books • Each source has it’s own procedure for downloading. • All files are large. • Audio files are very large. • Files are packaged and must be “unpackaged” prior to use.

  8. Unpacking and Moving Files • RFBD download manager • Humanware companion • WinZip • Windows Explorer

  9. UAK • Playing RFB&D or NLS audiobooks. • Must have an User Authorization Key (UAK).

  10. Examples of Hardware players Victor Reader Stream

  11. Hardware (con’t) Victor Reader Classic

  12. Hardware (con’t.) Bookport Plus

  13. Hardware (con’t.) NLS Digital Talking Book Player

  14. Hardware (con’t.) Braille Plus Mobile Manager

  15. Examples of Software players • Victor Reader Soft • "RFB&D Audio" App

  16. Questions?

  17. Thank you for Attending!

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