I recommend either Studio Recorder, or Daisy Recorder from A
P H. Those packages either of which costs $200 can do
everything you are asking. They are extremely screen reader
friendly. The only other thing you might want is a sound
card with extra types of jacks. I like the external USB
sound card from Sound Blaster. It has digital, stereo mini,
and RCA inputs and outputs so connects with most
non-computer gear.
HTH
Bill
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Subject: [VICUG-L] [Blind Audio] dasy software packages?
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hello list,
I have recently got a portable daisy talking book player,
and would like to start making my own daisy book disks, from
my own audio library.
please can anyone recommend a good fully featured daisy
creating software package? it needs to be fully accessible,
using window-eyes.
the package needs to be fully featured, as I would like to
make the disks fully navigable, as I will probably put
several books, radio series, or audio described film audio
tracks, on to one disk, and would like to be able to select
which book or series I want, and easily navigate my way
around that book or series, by chapter or episode, or if a
particular series had several seasons of it, I would like to
be able to navigate by series, season, or episode. I hope I
have explained that ok. however, just to make things
interesting, the audio books in my library, are all
formatted differently, as there are some, that have only as
many files, as there were tapes or cds in the original,
there are some, that have been taken from cd, with each
track on each cd being a file, and there are some, that have
just been formatted as a single big file for the whole book.
also, the stuff I have, has not all been encoded at the same
bit rate, and I have had problems with some mp3 disks
before, that will play perfectly in mp3 cd players, dvd
players, and my computer, but when I try to play them in my
talking book machine, it says something like "audio format
not supported" even though they are mp3 files, and I would
like the software package to be able to sort this out if
possible, as it is probably something simple, such as
re-encoding the mp3 files, in a bit rate that the talking
book machine will handle.
it would also be quite useful, if the package could have
some equaliser, volume boosting, sound enhancement, and
unwanted noise removal tools. as some of the stuff I have,
either because it was taken from very old recordings, was
recorded at too lower level on one or both channels, or
encoded at too lower bit rate, doesn't sound that good,
which is something, that I would really like to improve if
possible, before making daisy disks of it.
it would also be nice, if the package could actually record
directly from a line or digital in, as I still have a lot of
stuff on tape, dat, and minidisk. and if it could also take
audio from standard audio cds, which I could use the drive
in the computer to read, it would be even better.
finally, if possible, I would like the package, to be able
to work with different audio formats, as not all the stuff
in my library is in mp3 format, some of it is in .ogg, some
in .wma, some in standard uncompressed .wav, and some in a
form of compressed .wav format. I think it is going to be a
bit much, to expect the software to work with things like
free lossless audio codec, and monkeys audio files, but if
the daisy software package could also use existing audio
codec's, even this could be possible.
Simon Wilkes,
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