Greetings from Wyoming

gkearney · Post by **gkearney** » July 4th, 2006, 3:36 pm

Hello, I'm Greg Kearney from Casper Wyoming. I'm a programmer for the Wyoming Medical Center, member of the DAISY Consortium and author of the open source DAISY digital talking book production system DTBmaker (w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker)

I have been working at converting libriVox recordings into Daisy DTB format. Daisy is the international standard for digital talking books for the blind and print disabled also known as dyslexics, like me.

I have converted libriVox's Anne of Green Gables to DAISY. Anyone who is interested can download it at w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books

If any of you have any questions about DIASY please feel free to drop me a line.

Greg Kearney
gkearney@gmail.com

kayray · Post by **kayray** » July 4th, 2006, 4:45 pm

Hi Greg, nice to meet you!

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » July 4th, 2006, 4:58 pm

gkearney wrote:I have converted libriVox's Anne of Green Gables to DAISY. Anyone who is interested can download it at w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books

Greg Kearney
gkearney@gmail.com

Hiya Greg
I had a look at this and feel you have maybe dropped the quality of the recording just a little too much.
You have a bit rate of 24kbps.
I usually drop down to a minimum of 32 but prefer around 48 for speech and at least 96 but more like 128 for music.
Anne of Green Gables sounds almost like listening to it down an analogue telephone on your program

gkearney · Post by **gkearney** » July 4th, 2006, 5:14 pm

jimmowatt wrote:[

Hiya Greg
I had a look at this and feel you have maybe dropped the quality of the recording just a little too much.
You have a bit rate of 24kbps.
I usually drop down to a minimum of 32 but prefer around 48 for speech and at least 96 but more like 128 for music.
Anne of Green Gables sounds almost like listening to it down an analogue telephone on your program

I have limitations placed on me by the provider of the TTS system. When I make these I use a silent TTS voice and the SSML audio calls to place the recording into the book. The next version of the TTS system will permit me to use mp3 files so I will not have to down sample into low bitrate WAV files.

Greg Kearney

KATWAL · Post by **KATWAL** » July 5th, 2006, 6:50 am

Greetings Greg,

Good luck with the endeavor, sounds like a worthy one.

Kathy

Post by **hugh** » July 5th, 2006, 7:51 am

hi greg ... good to see you here.

I posted here with info about yor project too:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2798

so you might want to keep an eye on it. I will try to rally some more testers.