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Save as DAISY Add-in Tutorial Part 3: Using a DAISY Reader

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    Welcome to the third Save As DAISY tutorial for Microsoft Word 2010. In previous tutorials
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    I’ve explored how to download and install the Save As DAISY Add In and how to use the
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    Add In to create a digital talking book in Word 2010.
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    In this tutorial I will demonstrate how the files can be read back using a DAISY reader.
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    A great deal has changed in the past couple of years. In the past DAISY Readers tended
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    rely on digital books in CD format which required a hardware device such as the Plextalk player
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    and reader. And while these are still available a great
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    deal has changed, in particular the size and range of devices that can now play and read
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    aloud the DAISY format. As you can see from this slide DAISY digital readers are now available
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    on a desktop computer, a CD device, hand held devices, mobile phones and even on the Internet.
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    A visit to the DAISY Consortium website also reflects the diverse nature of devices available
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    to play DAISY content. But for the purpose of this tutorial I’m
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    going to look at AMIS, a free to download DAISY Reader which runs on a computer. AMIS
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    is a software program that you can use to read DAISY books. It is self-voicing, meaning
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    that no specialised screen-reading software is needed in order for it to be used by visually
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    impaired people. So here is AMIS and I’m going to go to the
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    Help file and Contents and open the default DAISY Book so you can see some of the basic
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    features. On the left hand side you can the heading structures, so important to allow
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    navigation, and there are also options to change the speed of the reading voice as well
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    as colour options, magnification and even bookmarks to revisit favourite or important
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    parts of the book or even to start reading where you finished last.
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    Note too that in the menus everything can be controlled via the keyboard, this is particularly
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    important for those users who only use the keyboard to access and navigate content on
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    a computer. Okay, so I’m going to open the DAISY Book
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    that I created in the last tutorial. In the File menu there are options to open the DAISY
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    Book from a CD and even from the Internet so there is a great deal of flexibility on
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    how you can store and access a DAISY Book. Now in the last tutorial I saved the talking
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    book to the desktop. So by going to File and Open and navigating to the desktop I can see
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    the folder My Talking Books. Inside the folder there are two other folders.
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    Both are DAISY compatible, the DAISY 202 folder is for those users who have or prefer to use
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    older DAISY reading devices which use the ‘ncc’ format while the z3986 is a more
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    recent format of DAISY, that is the opf and ncx –these are the files are used to open
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    a DAISY book. Fortunately AMIS will read both formats.
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    So now AMIS is reading the conversion form earlier. Now I’m not sure if you can hear
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    the voice that is reading just now, but I’m using a Scottish computer voice called Heather.
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    This is because I’ve my default voice as Heather. When you use the Save As DAISY Add
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    In for Word, the default voice on your computer system is used to generate the audio files.
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    In the next tutorial I’ll show you how to change and set the default voice on your computer
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    system.
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    Thank you for watching.
Title:
Save as DAISY Add-in Tutorial Part 3: Using a DAISY Reader
Description:

This tutorial includes information on how to use a DAISY reader to play back the publication you have created with the Save as DAISY add-in.
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English
Duration:
05:27
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