Obi Training Videos

Obi is an open source software application that can be used to produce digital talking books (DTBs) conforming to DAISY 3 (officially, the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specifications). Obi empowers individuals and organizations across the globe to create accessible and feature-rich digital content.

Listed below are videos that can help you learn the various steps involved in creating a DAISY book using Obi and understand its features. All the videos have captions or a text transcript.

Creating a new project

This video demonstrates the steps involved in creating a new project in Obi from scratch and importing of book structure from existing XHTML or DTBook XML file.

Opening, Saving, Project Properties & Bookmarks

Learn how to open, save & close existing projects, the use of Bookmarks in Obi and how to get more information about the structure & duration of the project

Working with Sections

Learn how to create sections and sub-sections, rename, delete or change their levels for creating the structure of the book.

Importing a DAISY Book

Learn how to import the structure and audio from an existing DAISY book in to Obi.

Importing audio files

Check out the steps for importing single or multople audio files into a Obi project. Learn how to quickly convert a set of audio files into a DAISY book.

Backup. Recovery. Reversing options

Learn how to undo the work done in an Obi project or how to restore it to a previous state.

See also

• Visit theObi Project Home for software downloads, documentation and the development site
• Obi Forum
• Obi Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
• Get started with Obi
• Obi: Various methods for authoring content
• Obi Training Videos
• Description of various function in Obi