Using Digital Talking Books (DTB) with Students

What is a DTB?

• multimedia presentation of a print publication - rendered in audio with a human voice
• based on a standard
• Also known as Daisy Books, NIMAS books, RFBD books, Bookshare Books
• 6 type of DTB
  1. Full Audio with title only
  2. Full Audio with navigation structure (NCC)
  3. Full Audio with navigation and some text (index, etc)
  4. Full Audio with full text
  5. Partial audio with full text
  6. no audio with full text (bookshare.org)

Is there a DTB player?

approved to play RFBD's AudioPlus® digitally recorded books on CD.

Stand-alone

• APH BookPort
• PlexTalk Portable Recorder
• Victor Reader Classicx
• Victor Reader Vibe
• Victor Reader Stream
• Victor Reader Wave

Software Player

• BookShare.org Player
• AMIS Open Source Player (Free)
• EasyReader
• eClipseReader
• gh Player
• TPB Reader
• Victor Reader Soft
• Victor Reader Mac

Resources

• IEP Objectives for Using Digital Talking Books
• MicroSoft Word Save-as-Daisy 
• Math Daisy
• Beyond the Text - WGBH/NCAM project is studying ways to make multimedia (images, audio and video) used in e-books accessible to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind or visually impaired.
• DAISY Consortium Website
  
  • DAISY Consortium Playback Tools
• Microsoft Reader
  • Text-to-Speech Component
  • Read in Microsoft Reader add-in
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
• Sources for Books
• Blind Bookworm: Accessible Ebooks and Etexts