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.
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Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:13 PM
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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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