Publishing the DAISY Way

Authoring/Production Tools

• DAISY Consortium Conversion & Production Tools
• Steps for creating a Simple (TOC only) DTB with Dolphin Publisher
• Dolphin Publisher: Steps for generating a DAISY book from documents

• Conversion

  • DAISY Pipeline: Rename files of a DAISY DTB as per section names
  • DAISY Pipeline: Fixing Errors
  • DAISY Pipeline Use Cases
  • DAISY Consortium Conversion & Production Tools
  • Video: Using the DAISY Pipeline and AMIS
  • DAISY Pipeline: Validation
  • DAISY Pipeline: Using the Narrator to transform a DTBook xml file to a DAISY book
  • DAISY Pipeline: The Character Set Switcher
  • DAISY Pipeline: From DTBook to DAISY 2.02 file set
  • DAISY Pipeline: From DAISY 2.02 to DAISY 3
  • DAISY Pipeline: Encoding all WAV files in a book to MP3
  • DAISY Pipeline: Create a playlist from your MP3 files
  • DAISY Pipeline Overview and use cases

• MyStudio PC

  • NCC-Only Production Practice: MyStudio PC
  • MyStudio PC Setup and Install
  • MyStudio PC - Recording
  • MyStudio PC - Editing
  • MyStudio PC - Creating a New Project
  • Migrating from MyStudioPC to Obi
  • MyStudio PC - Build Book and CD Write
  • MyStudio PC Short Cut Keys and Main Menu Short Cut Key Map
  • MyStudio PC - Additional Functions

• Obi

  • Get started with Obi
  • Obi Training Videos
  • Description of various functions in Obi
  • Obi: Various methods for authoring content
  • Obi: Create book structure manually and record or import audio
  • Obi: Import audio and mark structure during editing
  • Obi: Import XHTML file to create structure and record or import audio
  • Obi: Record audio and mark structure on the fly
  • Migrating from MyStudioPC to Obi

• Save as DAISY

  • Video: Create an accessible OpenWriter document
  • ODT2daisy, the free Save as DAISY add-in for Open Office

  • Microsoft Word Add-In

    • Save as DAISY introduction
    • Video tutorials: Using Save As DAISY
    • Videos: Why and how to create structured documents with Word 2007 and 2010
    • How to convert a Microsoft Word document into a full text full audio DAISY Book?
    • Convert a Word document into a DTBook
    • Video: Eight Steps To Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
    • Video: Preparing an accessible document and using Save As DAISY
    • Text-to-speech Configuration
    • Treatment of Table of Contents, Front matter, Body matter & Rear Matter in Save As DAISY
    • Using the Microsoft Word Accessibility Ribbon

• Sigtuna Dar 3

  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Install
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - New Project (ToC only Book)
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Recording Settings
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Direct Recording
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Import of Audio File(s)
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Edit Screen
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Cleanup
  • Codec Manager
  • Audio Calibration
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - Audio Compression
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - New Project (Synchronized Book)
  • MDF Overview
  • Sigtuna DAR 3 - ATAU (Audio & Text Addition Utility)

• Tobi

  • Tobi overview
  • DAISY Consortium Conversion & Production Tools
  • Video: Using Tobi to author DAISY multimedia
  • Video: Text-to-Speech (TTS) Feature in Tobi
  • Video: Creating EPUB with Tobi
  • Tobi: Accessible DAISY Book Production Using the Human Voice
  • Tobi - How to guides

• Validation

  • Interpreting DAISY 2.02 Validator Results
  • DAISY 2.02 Validator User Manual
  • DAISY 2.02 Validator Introduction

Digital Audio

• Audio Overview
• Bitrates and Compression
• Lossless Audio Compression

Production Issues and Processes

• Creating a Distribution CD
• DAISY DTB File Issues and Conventions
• DAISY Production Considerations
• DAISY: Free, open-source tools from the Urakawa project for authoring digital talking books
• DAISY: Producing braille from DTBook/NIMAS
• Entry of Bibliographic Information
• From Print to DAISY: Striking a Balance
• Production Software
• Synthetic Speech - Tools and Processes
• TPB Narrator - for effective synthetic production of digital talking books
• Types of metadata in a DAISY 2.02 DTB

Underlying Technologies

• World Wide Web Consortium

• Cascading Style Sheets

  • CSS Syntax Overview
  • CSS Introduction
  • CSS Color Names

• Internationalization

  • Internationalization Overview
  • Full Language Code Listing
  • Country Codes
  • Character Sets

• XHTML

  • Introduction to XHTML
  • XHTML Grammar Overview
  • Differences between XHTML and HTML
  • DAISY XHTML Element Usage Requirements
  • The <meta> element in XHTML
  • XHTML 1 Alphanumeric Character Entities

• XML

  • Introduction to XML - Overview
  • Introduction to XML
  • Introduction to the XML concept
  • XML Schemas: DTD Example
  • Presentation: XML in Practice: Formats, Tools, and Techniques
  • Presentation: XML From DAISY Proposed For Worldwide Use
  • On Books and XML
  • Introduction to XML Markup
  • Introduction to the XML syntax