[Athen] Questions re: DAISY on iPhone, iPad

[Shelley Haven]

And thus the obvious follow-up question: When? ;-)

- Shelley

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Assistive Technology Consultant
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On May 8, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Pratik Patel wrote:


> Hi, shelley,

> 

> I did purchase this app.  I'm afraid I found it to be cumbersome to use and

> not as accessible with Vo as it should've been.  It was certainly not worth

> the $25.

> 

> Take this with a grain of salt because I've involved in  a project that is

> developing a DAISY software package for the platform. This package will

> support full DAISY 3.0 playback.  For now, it will playback any type of

> audio natively supported by the iPhone OS.  I've heard of rumors that

> another group is developing a similar package.

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Pratik

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Shelley Haven

> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 9:22 PM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: [Athen] Questions re: DAISY on iPhone, iPad

> 

> Hi all!

> 

> 1.  Have any of you used the iPhone app "Voice of DAISY"

> (http://www.cypac.co.jp/vodi/index.html)?  If so, what are your impressions?

> (At $25.99, I'd like to get some unbiased opinions before purchasing.)  The

> website says it only works with DAISY 2.02 (but not 2.0 or 3.x) books which

> have "full audio with NCC" or "full audio and full text", so I assume that

> rules out Bookshare books.  (It also says the app will work with VoiceOver,

> but that it's "not...convenient").

> 

> 2.  Are you aware of any other iPhone/iPad DAISY apps under development?

> 

> Thanks,

> Shelley

> 

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