Joe,
Thanks for the note. I'll check out both goldwave and the APH Sound
Recorder. One of these probably will serve what we need for now.
With joy,
Jon
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:10:44 -0500 Joe Lazzaro <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> I've used the Goldwave audio recording and editing software to record
> audio
> books. It isn't as sophisticated as the Daisy standard, and doesn't
> let you
> intermix text and audio. But Goldwave does let you create MP3 or WAV
> files.
> A free fully functional demo of the software can be downloaded from
> www.goldwave.com. If you purchase the software, I believe it sells
> for
> around $50 US.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon J Post
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Seeking to make audio books in Russian
>
>
> I'm a volunteer working in Kyrgyzstan with the blind and the deaf.
> We want
> to develope digital audio books and courses that can then be
> inexpensively
> duplicated on CDs for distribution to other parts of the country or
> the CIS.
> For example, the Kyrgyz School for the Blind has over 20,000 reel to
> reel
> tapes of books in Russian, some of which could be copied into
> digital format
> for use on CD or MP3 players or on computers. Many of these could
> be
> distributed for the cost of the CD and postage.
>
> I'm working with the Kyrgyzstan National Library for the Blind and
> the
> National School for the Blind trying to develope an audio-book
> software
> program (and library) into which we could plug these different audio
> texts
> so that a listener could hear an index and then go to any desired
> title, or
> subtitle or page, and go forward or backward within the page, or
> book, or
> among books.
>
> 1) Do you know of such software programs?
>
> 2) If so, is there an internationally accepted standard or format
> for these?
>
> 3) Is there a place where I could download such a software player
> into which
> we could insert Russian audio (and text) indexes and files?
>
> I'm looked into the DAISY standard, but there are not any former
> Soviet
> countries using that yet, and the $2,500 price tag for DAISY
> Consortium
> membership is out of reach in a country where university professors
> earn $10
> per month and they haven't yet found the funds to repair the CD
> drive on one
> of the school's two computers that are modern enough to have one
> :-)
> We're somewhat technically (economically) challenged here.
>
> So we're trying ourselves to develope a program but would rather
> find a
> basic but navigatable semi-standardized shell into which we can put
> our .wav
> or .mp3 files for CD players. If the same program (on CD) could
> also
> autorun when placed in a computer CD drive, that would be the best.
> (If
> later we can get text-and-audio, like the DAISY standard, that will
> be
> wonderful too.)
>
> I'll appreciate any input. Jon <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
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