A new digital talking book system - how it all began.
The DAISY project started in 1988 with the recognition of dissatisfaction of the current system of the Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille, TPB. TPB is a government library serving both public libraries and print impaired university students. For the advanced talking book reader it is very time-consuming to read analogue talking books. There simply had to be another way, the digital way.
In 1991 TPB applied for a government grant for a three year project to develop a new digital talking book technique. The original plan was to operate a DAT player from a table of contents in a PC. These plans were soon abandoned because of wide spread acceptance of CD-ROM players and the new CD-R disc.