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From: Peter Toneby <woormie@acc.umu.se>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Digital Talking Book Standard
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:53:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119165337.A29158@stalin.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002201c1710d$59a53f80$7f7ef59b@essex.ac.uk>; from ss@saqibshaikh.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:17:48PM -0000

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:17:48PM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> While only an idea,
> 
> I have considered writing a digital talking book player for my final year
> project.  I'm not sure how hard this will be, but if it is within my
> technical grasp to do an initial version I will do it!

It shouldn't be to hard for you as a CS-student, I've got a start for
one, but I'm missing a (free) mp3-library with good support for
searching on timecodes in the mp3-file, this is needed to support DTBs
in a good way. I've only found a non-free lib :(.

In general since everyhting is XML-based it's fairly easy to implement a
simple reader that presents a lynxlike UI and that plays the music, but
since you might want to add more UI-types, such as speech, linebased
(like ed), and even a full graphical GUI (hey, we seeing people does
enjoy DTB as much as you blind guys do, and we like our GUIs (most of us
at least) :), and there is much more that can be added, the project can
grow quite a bit out of hand...

/Peter, who has to little time, and to many projects...
-- 
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Beta Test Version:  Still too buggy to be released. 
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  reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Martin G. McCormick
 ` Saqib Shaikh
   ` Peter Toneby [this message]
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Peter Toneby
         ` Nicolas Pitre
           ` Peter Toneby
             ` Lloyd G. Rasmussen
             ` Nicolas Pitre
     ` Nicolas Pitre
       ` Peter Toneby
       ` Janina Sajka
         ` Nicolas Pitre
           ` Janina Sajka
             ` Nicolas Pitre
           ` Brent Harding
             ` Nicolas Pitre
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111191409370.3206-100000@toccata.grg.afb.ne t>
             ` Brent Harding
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111191147560.2815-100000@toccata.grg.afb.ne t>
         ` Brent Harding
           ` Nicolas Pitre
             ` Joel Zimba
               ` Brent Harding
             ` Brent Harding
               ` Nicolas Pitre
   ` philwh
 ` Janina Sajka
 ` Brent Harding
   ` Buddy Brannan
     ` Brent Harding
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111191114500.2815-100000@toccata.grg.afb.ne t>
   ` Brent Harding
     ` Luke Davis
       ` cbowman
         ` ssh A. R. Vener
           ` ssh cbowman
           ` ssh Luke Davis
             ` ssh Andor Demarteau
               ` ssh Luke Davis
               ` ssh Fredrik Larsson
                 ` ssh Luke Davis
                   ` ssh Fredrik Larsson
             ` ssh cbowman
               ` ssh A. R. Vener
             ` ssh A. R. Vener
               ` ssh Luke Davis
         ` Digital Talking Book Standard Brent Harding
           ` cbowman
         ` Luke Davis
           ` cbowman
       ` Janina Sajka
     ` Pratik Patel
       ` Brent Harding
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Janina Sajka

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