Paper Info
Title
Generating DAISY books from OpenOffice.org
Abstract
odt2daisy is an open-source extension for OpenOffice.org Writer that converts word processing files into digital talking books in the DAISY format (ANSI/NISO Z39.86). odt2daisy produces Full DAISY 3 (text synchronised with audio), DAISY 3 XML (text without audio) and Full DAISY 2.02 (for compatibility with older DAISY players). The extension also supports mathematical content (MathML). odt2daisy works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. For the production of audio, odt2daisy relies on the DAISY Pipeline Lite, an open-source software developed by the DAISY Consortium, the LAME MP3 encoding technology, and the operating system's text-to-speech (TTS) engine(s). The supported languages depend on the TTS engines available on the user's system. On Unix-based systems odt2daisy relies on the open-source eSpeak TTS engine, which supports 27 languages. odt2daisy enables the production of DAISY books with only open-source software. Vincent Spiewak started working on odt2daisy at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) and continued the work at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) in the framework of ÆGIS, a research and development project co-financed by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_2
ICCHP (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
open-source espeak tts engine,daisy pipeline lite,daisy book,older daisy player,unix-based systems odt2daisy,daisy format,daisy consortium,generating daisy book,open-source software,full daisy,odt2daisy work,operating system,text to speech
OpenDocument,Microsoft Windows,World Wide Web,XML,Computer science,Unix,Software,OS X,MathML,Word processing,Operating system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6179
0302-9743
3-642-14096-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.50
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
christophe strobbe15711.19
jan engelen2218.87
Vincent Spiewak310.50