Restructuring the navigation panel in an already recorded DTB

Submitted by Julio Beltran on Thu, 2012-08-02 09:01
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Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me on this.

I already recorded a short story with full sound and text. They are properly synchronized, but I gave them no navigation structure at first.

Now I want to force a structure on them, without having to read and record it all over again.

Can any one point me to the right place where I can learn how to do it?

Kind regards,

Julio Beltrán

Submitted by ASingh on Thu, 2012-08-02 10:20
Dear Julio,

Structure editing is yet not supported in Tobi. One can makes small edits like correcting spelling etc. However you will not need to record the book again. The audio recorded by you can be reused in the restructured book. You can export the book in DAISY 3. Then restructure the DTBook.xml, import it again in Tobi and after this operation you can import individual audio files that you recorded.
Ofcourse you will have to perform audio editing on the imported audio but at least you will not loose the efforts invested in recording.

with regards
Avneesh Singh

Submitted by daniel.weck on Fri, 2012-08-03 03:09
Hello Julio, Avneesh is right, if you want to change the text/audio synchronisation granularity (e.g. change from "paragraph" to a finer-grain "sentence" synchronisation), and if this requires modifying / improving the text structure (i.e. DTBook markup), then you have to create an empty project using the new DTBook document, and re-synchronise the already-recorded audio files based on the new text structure. Of course, if your text document already contains the required DTBook markup, you can use the audio waveform editor to cut/copy/paste audio phrases (for example, to divide a paragraph into smaller sentences). However, you clearly seem to imply that the original DTBook document needs to be modified, in which case you must indeed start from a new empty Tobi project, and reuse already-recorded audio files. Alternatively (depending on your needs), you may be able to hand-craft the NCX exported by Tobi, in order to deliver a richer top-level navigation structure, but your DTBook document and SMIL files will remain the same, and DAISY reading systems will only be able to play the content based on its intrinsic text/audio synchronisation granularity (i.e. fixing the NCX will not fix the DAISY reading flow). Regards, Daniel
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