1 00:00:01,310 --> 00:00:08,799 Welcome to the third Save As DAISY tutorial for Microsoft Word 2010. In previous tutorials 2 00:00:08,799 --> 00:00:14,760 I’ve explored how to download and install the Save As DAISY Add In and how to use the 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:20,839 Add In to create a digital talking book in Word 2010. 4 00:00:20,839 --> 00:00:28,650 In this tutorial I will demonstrate how the files can be read back using a DAISY reader. 5 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:35,360 A great deal has changed in the past couple of years. In the past DAISY Readers tended 6 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:44,660 rely on digital books in CD format which required a hardware device such as the Plextalk player 7 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:50,330 and reader. And while these are still available a great 8 00:00:50,330 --> 00:00:56,990 deal has changed, in particular the size and range of devices that can now play and read 9 00:00:56,990 --> 00:01:05,140 aloud the DAISY format. As you can see from this slide DAISY digital readers are now available 10 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:20,939 on a desktop computer, a CD device, hand held devices, mobile phones and even on the Internet. 11 00:01:20,939 --> 00:01:35,119 A visit to the DAISY Consortium website also reflects the diverse nature of devices available 12 00:01:35,119 --> 00:01:42,009 to play DAISY content. But for the purpose of this tutorial I’m 13 00:01:42,009 --> 00:01:49,959 going to look at AMIS, a free to download DAISY Reader which runs on a computer. AMIS 14 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:57,060 is a software program that you can use to read DAISY books. It is self-voicing, meaning 15 00:01:57,060 --> 00:02:02,259 that no specialised screen-reading software is needed in order for it to be used by visually 16 00:02:02,259 --> 00:02:09,509 impaired people. So here is AMIS and I’m going to go to the 17 00:02:09,509 --> 00:02:17,430 Help file and Contents and open the default DAISY Book so you can see some of the basic 18 00:02:17,430 --> 00:02:27,530 features. On the left hand side you can the heading structures, so important to allow 19 00:02:27,530 --> 00:02:34,480 navigation, and there are also options to change the speed of the reading voice as well 20 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:43,829 as colour options, magnification and even bookmarks to revisit favourite or important 21 00:02:43,829 --> 00:02:50,299 parts of the book or even to start reading where you finished last. 22 00:02:50,299 --> 00:02:57,200 Note too that in the menus everything can be controlled via the keyboard, this is particularly 23 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,200 important for those users who only use the keyboard to access and navigate content on 24 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:08,209 a computer. Okay, so I’m going to open the DAISY Book 25 00:03:08,209 --> 00:03:15,030 that I created in the last tutorial. In the File menu there are options to open the DAISY 26 00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:21,549 Book from a CD and even from the Internet so there is a great deal of flexibility on 27 00:03:21,549 --> 00:03:29,849 how you can store and access a DAISY Book. Now in the last tutorial I saved the talking 28 00:03:29,849 --> 00:03:37,819 book to the desktop. So by going to File and Open and navigating to the desktop I can see 29 00:03:37,819 --> 00:03:47,569 the folder My Talking Books. Inside the folder there are two other folders. 30 00:03:47,569 --> 00:03:55,079 Both are DAISY compatible, the DAISY 202 folder is for those users who have or prefer to use 31 00:03:55,079 --> 00:04:05,540 older DAISY reading devices which use the ‘ncc’ format while the z3986 is a more 32 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:14,939 recent format of DAISY, that is the opf and ncx –these are the files are used to open 33 00:04:14,939 --> 00:04:23,580 a DAISY book. Fortunately AMIS will read both formats. 34 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:46,750 So now AMIS is reading the conversion form earlier. Now I’m not sure if you can hear 35 00:04:46,750 --> 00:04:53,270 the voice that is reading just now, but I’m using a Scottish computer voice called Heather. 36 00:04:53,270 --> 00:05:00,130 This is because I’ve my default voice as Heather. When you use the Save As DAISY Add 37 00:05:00,130 --> 00:05:08,889 In for Word, the default voice on your computer system is used to generate the audio files. 38 00:05:08,889 --> 00:05:14,090 In the next tutorial I’ll show you how to change and set the default voice on your computer 39 00:05:14,090 --> 00:05:15,860 system. 40 00:05:15,860 --> 99:59:59,999 Thank you for watching.