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The 15-state Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM)
Consortium is working to improve academic outcomes for
approximately 1.3 million K-12 students with print
disabilities within the member States through the timely
acquisition and delivery of high-quality educational
materials in accessible formats (audio, Braille, eText, large
print).
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The development of this project by the AIM Consortium
at the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and
the Michigan Department of Education IDEA Mandated
Activities Project Michigan’s Integrated Technology
Supports was funded by Grant # H327S070003 from the
U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special
Education Programs. The contents of this project are not
exhaustive and inclusion does not imply endorsement by
the U.S. Department of Education, the Michigan
Department of Education, Michigan’s Integrated
Technology Supports, or the Center for Applied Special
Technology (CAST)
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gh PLAYER v2.2
The gh Player 2.2 is a Digital Talking Book
reader that provides complete access to DAISY
books, (including NIMAS file sets) and simple
text files.
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• Free gh Player Download (30 day
demo)
• http://www.gh-accessiblility.com/
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gh Player Overview:
Displays and reads textbooks, novels, and
other documents aloud.
Can display DTBs (digital talking books) in
a. BRAILLE,
b. large print
c. electronic text
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Formats supported:
 DAISY/NISO 3.0
 DAISY 2.02
 DAISY 2.0
 NIMAS
 Math in DAISY
 DAISY XML
 Simple Text (txt)
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Key features:
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Text to speech using synthesized voices
Synchronized text highlighting
Digital text magnification
Contrast enhancement
Will play human-recorded audio
(if that feature is built into the book)
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The first gh Screen:
Library Window
The library window is automatically displayed when the
software is launched.
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What does the gh Library do?
My Library:
1. Opens books
2. Adds new books
3. Deletes books
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Adding books to the library:
To add a DTB (digital talking book) to the library, use the “Update
Library” button, then browse to the book's folder on your
computer.
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Opening a book in the gh library:
To open a book from your library, use the
“Open Book” button.
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Removing books from the gh library:
To remove one or more books from the library,
use the “Remove Entry” and/or “Clear All” buttons.
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Re-opening the gh library
When you open a book, the library automatically closes. You
may re-open the library at any time from the File menu.
(or by using the Ctrl+L keyboard shortcut)
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Directly open a NIMAS,
DAISY or .txt document
without using the gh Library
From File Menu,
choose “Open book”.
Then, browse to find
and open a NIMAS,
DAISY or .txt file
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Accessibility
toolbar
Voice toolbar
Digital book
With pics
Navigation
Pane
Playback
toolbar
Bookmarks
toolbar
Navigators
toolbar
Navigation
Modes toolbar
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Accessibility toolbar:
1. Zooming buttons can change text size of the book, allowing
a “large print” view of the book.
2. The Contrast button toggles through optional text and
background colors.
3. The Tracking button is an on/off switch that controls whether
text is highlighted as it is read or not.
4. The Panning button allows you to “grab” the page and move
it around by using the click-hold-move mouse action.
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Voice control toolbar
Volume buttons
gradually increase
or decrease each
time they are
clicked.
Rate buttons control
the speed of the
playback – these
work on both
synthetic and
recorded voices.
Voice button
up/down arrows
let the user select
their preferred
synthetic voice
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Playback toolbar
Repeat
Navigate backward
Play
Navigate forward
Play button may also be used to pause the text reading voice
Navigate backward and forward buttons allow the user to
easily jump forward or backward in the book by page,
segment, section, paragraph, word or time. The jump
distance is determined by the setting in the Navigation Mode
toolbar.
Repeat button will read the last sentence or segment again.
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Bookmarks toolbar
Bookmark
tool
The user may place bookmarks on the current page of a book by
using the “Bookmark” tool. The bookmark is automatically placed
in the Bookmarks tab in the navigation pane.
The picture at right shows 3 bookmarks
found in the navigation pane. Their
name begins with the page number.
(more on using the navigation pane
later....)
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Bookmarks editor tool
Bookmark
Editor button
Grow/shrink
Text size
Delete
Print notes
bookmarks And bookmarks
Bookmark
List
Notes area
The Bookmark Editor lets the user add notes to
bookmarks, print the bookmarks and notes, and
manage or delete bookmarks.
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Navigation Mode Toolbar
Blue = available
modes in this book
Red = current
selection
Gray = mode
not available
in this book
Jump by page,
section, paragraph,
word, etc, according
to the navigation mode
setting shown above
With the navigation mode set to “Page”, the forward arrow moves
the user one page ahead. Set to “Word”, the forward arrow
moves the user one word ahead, and so on.
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Navigation Pane
Book section
tab
Bookmarks
tab
Pages
tab
Another way
to navigate
around a
book
Use the tabs to search by book section (chapter), pages,
or your bookmarks. Then double-click to go directly there.
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Page Navigator
Still another
way
to navigate
around a book
Page Navigator opens a separate window containing a list of
pages (left), or sections (right), of the book. You may
navigate directly to the page or section you want.
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Options – Customize: General tab
Select the
General tab
From the Options
Menu, choose
“Customize”
Use the general tab to set basic options for gh Player
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Customize – narrator voice
Narrator voice tab
This is the
voice that reads the
text of a DTB
(digital talking book)
Set the default voice options here.
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Customize – Player voice
Player Voice tab
Reads menus and
toolbars
Player voice usually muted
by sighted users
Set default options for
the Player voice here.
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Customize - BRAILLE
NIMAS and DAISY
books may be sent to
a refreshable Braille
device or to a Braille
printer by using the
“Braille Display” tab.
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Deactivating gh Player
To use one gh Player license on multiple computers, the software
may be deactivated on one (e.g. a school computer), then
reactivated on another (e.g. a home computer).
From the Help Menu
Choose “Deactivate”
To complete
deactivation
choose “Yes”
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Keyboard shortcuts:
Space bar – play/pause
Right/left arrows – navigate forward/backward
Up/down arrows – switch navigation modes
CTRL – L:
CTRL – R:
CTRL – B:
CTRL – E:
Open your book library
Repeat
Place a bookmark on this page
Edit bookmarks, add notes
More keyboard shortcuts can be found in the Help Menu, or by
pressing Shift-F1.
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