[Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players

[Ron Stewart]

Good morning,

Product promotion aside, there are two basic factors that must be considered
if you are producing DTB's that will play in the hardware players.  They
need to be produced to the DAISY 2.02 standard, and you must embed a TTS
voice in the DAISY book when you create if for most of the players to play
it.

A second factor that must also be considered in providing DTB based access
to your students, if you want to play materials from RFB&D the players need
to include their DRM key.  The easiest way to do this currently is to
purchase the players through them.

Ron Stewart 

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Terri Hedgpeth
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:50 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players

Everyone,
I forwarded this question and Dan's email to IRTI and received the following
response. I  don't know if it answers Dan's question, but there might be
some useful info in the reply for some of you.



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Proscia [mailto:peterp at irti.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 2:02 PM
To: Terri Hedgpeth
Cc: burke at ucla.edu; djbrky at bu.edu
Subject: RE: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players

Hi Terri,

 I don't know what tool they are using to produce DTB's or what type of DTB.
I don't think they are using an IRTI production tool.   If they use
eClipseWriter to produce DTB's, they will play on all their hardware devices
when using MP3 and some of the devices support W A V audio.  We test our
DAISY output on all these hardware devices and we do a good job producing
valid DTB's from most source files.  Word, HTML, TEXT, RFT. unlocked PDF.

Also, they should produce DAISY 2.02 if they want to play on all DAISY
hardware devices.  Some hardware tools do not support DAISY 3 or DAISY /
NISO 2005 well, or at all yet.  Also, they must be producing audio DTB's.
These hardware devices distributed by RFB&D or IRTI don't play text only
daisy books.  The BookCourier will play Bookshare text only DAISY media,
other text formats and DAISY 2.02 audio.

Also, when you produce a DTB with eClipseWriter Pro, a proprietary
compressed, encrypted by-product file called DTB-DNA and/or DTB-RDNA is
created that may be transformed into a wide range of accessible media using
our web and Network portal deployment tool, eClispeWater.  Media formats
include (DAISY 2.02, DAISY 3 V1.1, DAISY / NISO 2005 book types 3, 4, 6)

Here is a link with NEW info about our DAISY tools that will be of
assistance.  Feel free to contact IRTI  @ 1 800 322 4784 for support and
more information.

http://www.irti.net/news_events/Navigate%20the%20printed%20world.html

Best regards,

Peter Proscia
President / CEO
Innovative Rehabilitation Technology Inc. (IRTI) Ph. 530 274 2090 Fax. 530
274 2093 Web. http://www.irti.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Terri Hedgpeth [mailto:terrih at asu.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:46 PM
To: Peterp at irti.net
Subject: FW: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players


Just fyi from some of your customers. What they are saying.




From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Berkowitz, Daniel J
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 4:59 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: RE: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players

Our typical students arrives on campus with a personal computer of their own
- generally a nice laptop. We load them up with EasyReader purchased through
RFB&D and that allows us to provide them with a mix of RFB&D and In-House
produced DTB's. I have three of each common stand alone players as described
here:
http://people.bu.edu/access/DTB_Hardware.htm

I have some loaned out to students but we have had trouble getting the
In-House produced DTB's to play on them. Which brings up the question - has
anyone else had difficulty getting In-House produced DTB's to play on these
machines? If so - how did you correct it?

---Dann

=========================
Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director
Boston University Office of Disability Services
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor
Boston, MA 02215

(617) 353-3658 (office)
(617) 353-9646 (fax)
djbrky at bu.edu (eMail)
www.bu.edu/disability




From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org on behalf of Patrick Burke
Sent: Fri 11/17/2006 5:06 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players Hi everyone,

I'm interested to know what other adaptive tech programs are doing about
providing RFBD-compatible DAISY players or software. Has anyone purchased
multiple systems for students to try? Or have you settled on one system that
works best for you (in terms of price, ease of management, etc.)?

On our campus, the vast majority of our e-text efforts have gone into
producing Kurzweil-readable files in recent years. I have only had one
inquiry about RFBD players recently, but I suspect the digital revolution
will hit this area pretty soon.

Thanks for your comments & experiences,

Patrick


--
Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: burke at ucla.edu


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-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Beach
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:15 PM
To: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: Re: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players

Dan,

What kind of trouble have you had?  I've used the Victor Wave and the Telex
Scholar with no problems.  I've also tried some in-house books on the Victor
Clasic+, but we don't have those for student use.

If you can describe the problems you're having, maybe I can help.



Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS  66112
Phone:  (913) 288-7671
Fax: (913) 288-7678
E-mail:  rbeach at kckcc.edu

>>> djbrky at bu.edu 11/17/06 5:58 PM >>>

Our typical students arrives on campus with a personal computer of their own
- generally a nice laptop. We load them up with EasyReader purchased through
RFB&D and that allows us to provide them with a mix of RFB&D and In-House
produced DTB's. I have three of each common stand alone players as described
here:
http://people.bu.edu/access/DTB_Hardware.htm
<http://people.bu.edu/access/DTB_Hardware.htm> 
 
I have some loaned out to students but we have had trouble getting the
In-House produced DTB's to play on them. Which brings up the question - has
anyone else had difficulty getting In-House produced DTB's to play on these
machines? If so - how did you correct it? 
 
---Dann
 
=========================
Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director
Boston University Office of Disability Services
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor
Boston, MA 02215 
  
(617) 353-3658 (office)
(617) 353-9646 (fax)
djbrky at bu.edu <mailto:djbrky at bu.edu>  (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability 

________________________________

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org on behalf of Patrick Burke
Sent: Fri 11/17/2006 5:06 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] RFBD Software & DAISY Players



Hi everyone,

I'm interested to know what other adaptive tech programs are doing about
providing RFBD-compatible DAISY players or software. Has anyone purchased
multiple systems for students to try? Or have you settled on one system that
works best for you (in terms of price, ease of management, etc.)?

On our campus, the vast majority of our e-text efforts have gone into
producing Kurzweil-readable files in recent years. I have only had one
inquiry about RFBD players recently, but I suspect the digital revolution
will hit this area pretty soon.

Thanks for your comments & experiences,

Patrick


--
Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: burke at ucla.edu


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