[Athen] Creating MP3s?

Joseph Polizzotto MA jpolizzotto at berkeley.edu
Thu Mar 11 10:14:47 PST 2021


Hi Russell:

I have found that most software programs that produce MP3 files are lacking
in one of the following features:

- voice changes (for foreign languages)
- natural pausing at the end of paragraphs, page numbers; pitch changes for
parenthetical content
- ability to read math content
- metadata for MP3s
- MP3 bookmarks for easier navigation

For all of these reasons, we have gone away from using the tools that the
vendors provide and created a script that uses Balabolka's command-line tool
<http://www.cross-plus-a.com/bconsole.htm> + Microsoft's native voices to
produce MP3s.

*Note:* There are a few dependencies you would need to install to use it,
such as Git for Windows (to recognize all the script's commands), Lame (to
convert WAV to MP3), id3 (to add metadata), and FFMPEG (to add a Cover
image to the MP3). Those are necessary to use the script while others
(MathJax-SRE and Aeneas) are for advanced features (math and MP3 bookmark
creation).

If you are interested, I can put it on Github and share a link to a video
about its usage.

Joseph

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 2:10 PM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>
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> Thanks Tristen. I totally forgot that OpenBook had that feature.

>

> Looks like we've got a few options.

>

> Take care,

>

> Russell

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> Hi Russell,

> You can also use OpenBook 9.0 for converting text to mp3 files. Simply

> import or scan your document into OpenBook, then select the Save to mp3

> option in the File menu.

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> Hope that helps.

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> Hi everyone,

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> We need to convert a textbook to an MP3 format for a student. We haven't

> done this in quite a few years. In the past we used TextAloud with good

> results, but that was a long time ago.

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> Is TextAloud still the best tool for converting a Word document to MP3

> format? How does NaturalReader compare with TextAloud in this regard? Any

> other programs that work better?

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> Thanks for any ideas and advice.

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> Hi Adina,

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> I've recently been working with a Graduate student on Nvivo. She's relying

> heavily on shortcut options listed at

> http://help-nv11.qsrinternational.com/desktop/procedures/keyboard_shortcuts.

> htm

> <http://help-nv11.qsrinternational.com/desktop/procedures/keyboard_shortcuts.htm>

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> I worked with her as someone who could help explain accessible ways to

> navigate while one of her college peers/supervisors helped us know which

> features she needed to access. There were a few items that weren't reading

> correctly but we were able to figure out alternative ways to access/input

> info. Like all programs, it's not fully accessible, but it was more

> accessible than I was expecting based on the interface I saw. She's just

> beginning to use the program so my experience is based on a very small

> portion of what I expect this application can do.

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> Dawn

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> Dawn Hunziker

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> Hi everyone,

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> I?m wondering if anyone has info about accessibility of any qualitative

> research software?

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> The names of the products I looked for are:

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> * Atlas.ti- has a VPAT from 2013 posted on its site. (Not too

> promising)

> * NVivo- I found this VPAT with no

> date<

> https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/groups/academic-technology-se

> rvices/nvivo_vpat.pdf

> <https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/groups/academic-technology-services/nvivo_vpat.pdf>>

> that I could find on CSU?s site. It says NVivo ?uses 3rd party software?

> that didn?t/doesn?t work with screen readers. It doesn?t say which

> features don?t work. NVivo?s site says it works with JAWS<

> https://help-nv.qsrinternational.com/12/win/v12.1.98-d3ea61/Content/abo

> ut-nvivo/accessibility.htm#UseascreenreaderwithNVivo

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> here. Dept of Veterans Affairs found it was ?not conformant? with Section

> 508<https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=6085> in June

> 2020.

> * ?MAXQDA? ?VPAT? -didn?t find any relevant results on Google and I

> didn?t find any accessibility info on its site

> * "Dedoose" "vpat" -didn?t find any relevant results on Google and I

> didn?t find any accessibility info on its site

> * "Provalis research text analytics software" "vpat" -didn?t find any

> relevant results on Google and I didn?t find any accessibility info on its

> site

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>

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> Names of some others I didn?t look up are

>

> * Raven?s Eye

> * Quirkos

>

>

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> I would consider other qualitative research software if I find any that?s

> screen reader accessible. I?m sighted and this is planning ahead for a

> project where I might be working with colleague(s) who are blind or have

> other disabilities.

>

>

>

> Thank you for any ideas!

>

>

>

> Adina Mulliken

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> Silberman School of Social Work and Urban Public Health Library

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