Transcript The Bookport Plus - University of South Carolina

The Evolving World of Digital Audio
Books and Players
South Carolina
Assistive Technology Expo
March 15, 2011
Presenters: Lee Speer, Clay Jeffcoat, and
Marty McKenzie, SC School for the Deaf
and the Blind
Objectives
• Identify a variety of digital book players for
people with visual impairments and
learning styles.
• Identify sources for obtaining digital books
and players.
• Update on new digital audio book players
and refinements to existing players that
benefit readers of all ages.
Digital Audio books
There are a variety of audio book styles:
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Plain text
Text with markup
Plain audio
Audio with markup
Audio, text and markup.
Available formats
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mp3
wav
ogg
wma
xml
Daisy (Digital Assessable Information Sys)
Free Digital Books
Project Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Loud Lit
http://www.loudlit.org/
Librivox
http://librivox.org/
Check your local library
Membership required Audio Books
RFBD: http://www.rfbd.org/
Bookshare: http://www.bookshare.org/
NLS: http://www.loc.gov/nls/
Audible: http://www.audible.com/
Obtaining Digital Books
• Each source has it’s own procedure for
downloading.
• All files are large.
• Audio files are very large.
• Files are packaged and must be
“unpackaged” prior to use.
Unpacking and Moving Files
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RFBD download manager
Humanware companion
WinZip
Windows Explorer
UAK
• Playing RFB&D or NLS
audiobooks.
• Must have an User Authorization
Key (UAK).
Examples of Hardware players
Victor Reader
Stream
Hardware (con’t)
Victor Reader
Classic
Hardware (con’t.)
Bookport
Plus
Hardware (con’t.)
NLS
Digital
Talking Book
Player
Hardware (con’t.)
Braille Plus
Mobile
Manager
Examples of Software players
• Victor Reader Soft
• "RFB&D Audio" App
Questions?
Thank you for
Attending!