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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
• 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 - http://sun1.aph.org/products/bp_bro.html (AudioPlus approval expected Jan. 2004)
• PlexTalk Portable Recorder - www.plextalk.org/plextalk_portable.html
• Scholar Digital Talking Book Player - www.telex.com/telexMain/
• Victor Reader Classic+ - http://www.visuaide.com/classic_plus.html
• Victor Reader Vibe - http://www.visuaide.com/victor_vibe.html

Software Player

• BookShare.org Player - www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html
• CAST eReader - http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=211
• EaseReader - http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/audio/products/EasePublisher/index.htm
• eClipseReader - http://www.eclipsereader.com/
• gh Player - http://www.ghbraille.com/playerdownload.html
• LpPlayer - www.audiopublisher.com/products/lpplayer.htm
• PlayBack 2000 - www.tpb.se/english/talking/engplay2k.htm
• TPB Reader - http://www.daisy.org/tpbreader/index.asp?lang=en
• Victor Reader Soft - www.visuaide.com/victorsoft.htm

Resources

• IEP Objectives for Using Digital Talking Books
• 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 - www.daisy.org
  • DAISY Consortium Playback Tools - http://www.daisy.org/tools/playback.asp
• Microsoft Reader www.microsoft.com/reader/default.asp
  • Text-to-Speech Component - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/tts.asp
  • Read in Microsoft Reader add-in - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/rmr.asp
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic - http://www.rfbd.org/digitalaudio.htm
  • RFB&D's AudioPlus Player List - http://www.rfbd.org/catalog_2.htm
  • Registering RFB&D Software Products - http://www.rfbd.org/troubleshooting.htm#RegisterSoftware
• Reviews and Comparisons of Digital Talking Book Players - http://www.nfbnet.org/digital
• Sources for Books - http://www.aph.org/fh/index.html (search for electronic books)
• E-Text Sources - http://kysig.louisville.edu/udl/links.htm
• Blind Bookworm: Accessible Ebooks and Etexts - http://www.panix.com/~kestrell/
• Knowbetter.com All Ebooks All the Time - http://www.knowbetter.com/

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