<div dir="ltr"><div>We supported ReadHear at OSU. It's a solid DAISY reader but it's parsing engine is exceptionally particular. The last time I tested, it would handle valid (and only valid) EPUB 2 documents -- so not those EPUB 3 with MathML in them. Also, it would fail to open EPUB that had been output from many converted books I had in EPUB 2 format. For instance, anything that I had converted from MOBI to EPUB using Calibre failed to open in ReadHear. Also many books I downloaded from Project Gutenburg in EPUB 2 would fail to open.<br>
<br></div>In the past, I have talked with developers at gh and know that have plans to support EPUB 3 in the future. I would be interested to know if they have that support yet. To my knowledge, they don't. <br><br>ken<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Sean Keegan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeegan@stanford.edu" target="_blank">skeegan@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im">> gh LLC claims their Premium version of ReadHear will read (speak) epub documents with MathML in them. <div>> Does anyone have experience supporting students with the ReadHear product?</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>I have not tried using ReadHear for ePub files as this was listed as a "Soon" feature on my Mac version. On the ReadHear website, it does list ePub as a supported format for the Windows version, but there are no comments about support for MathML in ePub.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For DAISY books, I have had mixed results with the playback of MathML content on the Mac version. When it works, it works really well and is very responsive. Unfortunately, I have several DAISY books that I have created with the DAISY pipeline where the application crashes on start-up. This is a known issue and is to be fixed in a future version, but no timeline has been set.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would like to be able to offer the ReadHear application to students, but we are very Mac-centric at my institution and the crashing issue is not something that my students will tolerate.</div><div class="im">
<div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Sean</div><div><br></div><div>Sean Keegan</div><div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica;word-wrap:break-word;word-spacing:0px">
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