DAISY book Generator

Introduction

The 'DAISY BOOK generator' is a program available here allowing you to generate a real DAISY book starting from existing MP3 or WAV files.

The program generates the necessary additional files needed for a real DAISY 2.02 book: a book to be used with the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY).

You'll find the installation program and the documentation in the ZIP-file below.

Please read the available documentation especially when things are not working well. Imagen I simply wrote it in vaim.

Release details:

Most recent version 1.80, dated 2008-03-17.

Fixes since version 1.0:

• 1.20:

  Time calculations for 16K and 32K sampling frequencies have been improved.

  Sentencestep (parameter)values have been changed.

• 1.12:

  A German language interface have been added (thanks to Marion).

  Some minor settings and messages have been changed.

• 1.10:

  Some user parameters have been added to better meet the DAISY requirements (see the description of 'book.txt' in the manual).

  Some routines in the generation process have been re-styled.

• 1.09:

  In this version the option has been added to use multy book DAISY CDs if the booktitle text hold blanks or special characters. In version 1.08 I forgot to add this.

• 1.30:

  In this version some reported bugs have been fixed including time miscalculations for 16000/32000 bit sampling rates.

• 1.40:

  In this version another reported bugs have been fixed including time miscalculations (thanks to DR).

• 1.50:

  - The internal remapping algoritme for multi level DAISY books is updated, and has changed significantly. Re-generation of multi level books might end up in a different outcome. The overall generation results though will be much better in this version.

  - A French language interface has been added (thanks to Nicolas).

  - Typing errors have been fixed (thanks to Nicolas).

  - A timing utility for MP3 and WAVE files has been added. This new utility generates a list of audio files and their duration in seconds.

• 1.60:

  - DAISY file contents has been changed to better match DAISY requirements to allow AMIS reader to read the generated books (thanks to Marisa).

  - A (utility) program has been added to "reorganize" DAISY books. This is useful if the MP3 files are not sorted propperly or if strange filenames have been used.

• 1.70:

  - DAISY file contents has been changed again to better match DAISY requirements to allow AMIS reader to read the generated books (thanks to Marisa again and again).

  - The DAISY reorganizer has been advanced to allow DAISY books with page references. Warnings will be given when used files are found.

• 1.80:

  - Minor but destructive typing error fixed while generating multi book CDs.

• 1.90:

  - Solutions for possible problems when renaming "the same" file(name)s.

Download in ZIP-format: DAISY book Generator 1.90.