DAISY Pipeline Software Provides Free Text to Mp3 Conversion

"I have a university class starting next week and have scanned my textbook into Word and used the "Save As DAISY " plug in to convert it all. I can't seem to figure out what to do from there to get it finished. Can you help me?"
I had this question from the UK this week (I am paraphrasing it a little). The question came from a student with Dyslexia who is not able to qualify for the files she needs and needed to get this text converted ASAP.
I had done a series of posts last June '08 on Converting Text with DAISY where some great advice was shared by DAISY Consortium developer Romain Deltour. I had meant to use his information to do a tutorial with steps for this process and never got around to it. Now with this question, I had a reason to get something organized, written and available.
I would like to get it perfected as a more visual tutorial and maybe a video one down the road, but for now, I have created a free pdf with links to the tool downloads and the steps start to finish from the Word text to an Mp3, wav or DTB 2.02 file that will play in DTB players and on Windows Media Player, iTunes, Quicktime Player, etc.
You can access the tutorial on my NL2L website at the bottom of the Training page at this link.
Here is also a helpful link to DAISY Consortium with all their conversion tools.

Don't Forget!
"Romancing the Phone" Courting and romance sparked a new phone speech assistant for the speech impaired - a visit with Jay and Melissa Blocksom. Tonight, Friday, January 30 at 7 PM Pacific. Blog Talk Radio/No Limits 2 Learning Live!

AT Blog Carnival for February - call for submissions on "perfect pairings" of AT.
Deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb 20. The carnival will post on Monday, Feb. 23.

All the best to you!

Lon




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New Cell Phone Interface for Speech Impaired on Blog Talk Radio

New Blog Talk Radio/No Limits 2 Learning Live Segment "Romancing the Phone."
Use any phone with "The Speech Assistant" developed by couple/user team Jay and Melissa Blockman.
While courting, Melissa developed spasmodic dysphonia and the couple had to resort to a voice relay system to communicate over the phone. Out of a desire to see a seamless and private way to communicate, Jay began working on a system that could interface a computer's text to speech software with any phone to communicate.
Tune in this Friday, January 30 at 7 PM Pacific to hear Jay and Melissa tell about their journey and use their Speech Assistant to share with us.
You can tune in and call to ask questions and comment on the show site or catch the archive afterwards on my blog sidebar player.

All the best to you!
Lon



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Proloquo2Go has Pocket AAC for the iPod Touch and iPhone

AAC is finally coming to the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Assistiveware and Sennott Consulting are collaborating on this new AAC solution called Proloquo2Go. I received an email announcing the release/shipping in March of 2009.

You can attend presentations on Proloquo2Go at ATIA and CSUN:

ATIA 2009, Orlando: S0802 - Beyond Mac or PC: iPhone, iPod and Modbook as AAC solutions. Saturday, Jan 31 - 8:00 am - 9:00 am, Bonaire 7/8.

CSUN 2009, Los Angeles: AAC-1030 - AAC in Your Pocket: Meet Proloquo2go for iPhone and iPod. Thursday, March 19 - 8:00 am - 9:00 am, Renaissance - International A.

You can read more about it online at: http://www.proloquo2go.com/

All the best to you!

Lon



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