I'm sure we'll continue to get new improvements too. They did pretty good.
----- Original Message ----- From: "kaare dehard" <kaare.deh...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:33 PM Subject: Re: making bookshare books into audio/Daisy books? > > there are some that find that vo is somehow objectionable just because > it sort of broke a few rules that folks thought were inviolate. If > something is done well very little scripting should be needed etc. > > Apple really put it's thinking cap on when design was started and it > shows. Of course we could use some improvements. > On 8-Apr-09, at 9:27 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > >> >> Cool! I'll have to try this. Otherwise, I was thinking of getting >> the BRF, >> using Louis to make text and then automater to make audio. Between >> that Perl >> script and the pipeline, now things should work better than when I >> last >> explored this before on Windows. I'm glad I just dived straight in >> as VO >> really isn't as bad as people make it seem, once you play with it a >> little >> and the podcasts on BCT. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Greg Kearney" <gkear...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:14 PM >> Subject: Re: making bookshare books into audio/Daisy books? >> >> >>> >>> Daisy Pipeline has all the installers you will need. >>> >>> Greg Kearney >>> 535 S. Jackson St. >>> Casper, Wyoming 82601 >>> 307-224-4022 >>> gkear...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 8, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Brent Harding wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Ah, do I still have to get darwin ports and Lame and all that >>>> installed, or >>>> will it use the encoders already there? I remember when I tried it >>>> on >>>> Windows that Bookshare books wouldn't validate, but maybe that perl >>>> script >>>> will fix that up. >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Greg Kearney" <gkear...@gmail.com> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:58 PM >>>> Subject: Re: making bookshare books into audio/Daisy books? >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> As the author of DTBmaker I would suggest moving over to DAISY >>>>> Pipeline which is a much more complete solution for doing this. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Greg Kearney >>>>> 535 S. Jackson St. >>>>> Casper, Wyoming 82601 >>>>> 307-224-4022 >>>>> gkear...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Brent Harding wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi there. I'm kind of a new user and just got a Macbook off Ebay a >>>>>> few weeks >>>>>> ago. I tried to install DTBMaker to try and convert some Bookshare >>>>>> books >>>>>> into audio with the Alex voice to eventually put on my Victor >>>>>> Stream. I >>>>>> don't care for the voices built into the stream for long-term >>>>>> reading and >>>>>> wanted to use the better voice this machine has. What do I need to >>>>>> install >>>>>> to make it not give the command not found error when you hit the >>>>>> option to >>>>>> start building the book? Do I need to install the Cepstral silence >>>>>> voice, >>>>>> lame some how, and whatever perl modules? I know it's not quite >>>>>> Linux so I'm >>>>>> not sure how to do that part even though the terminal seems to >>>>>> read >>>>>> good >>>>>> with VO. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
