DAISY DTB Production TRAINING
Porto, Portugal / 1 - 5 March 2010
The DAISY's training is an initiative of GTAEDES (Working Group for the Support of Students with Handicaps in Higher Education). The organisation of the training session are of responsability of Porto's University and Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC). The trainers are from DAISY Consortium.
Note: the training session will occur in English.
Contents of this page:
Local of training
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto
Address: Praça Gomes Teixeira
4099-002 Porto
Prerequisites
- Minimum Usage of Computer (File/folder management, document creation etc.);
- Some exposure to or familiarity with, or knowledge of DAISY.
Expected Outcomes
- Understanding of the scope, usability and functionality of the DAISY standards
- Ability of participants to use DAISY playback tools to play DAISY 2.02 digital talking books
- Ability of participants to use DAISY production tools to create DAISY full text digital talking books
- Understanding of the Daisy DTB fileset
Trainers
- Mr. Prasant Verma (DAISY Consortium)
- Ms. Sreeja Parameswaran (DAISY Consortium)
Training Timings (from 1 to 5 March)
First day (1st March):
- 10:00 – 12:30 – morning session with a break of 15m to coffee
- Lunch Time
- 14:00 – 18:00 – afternoon session with a break of 15m to coffee
The others days (2nd till 5nd March):
- 09:30 – 12:30 – morning session with a break of 15m to coffee
- Lunch Time
- 14:00 – 17:30 – afternoon session with a break of 15m to coffee
Training Outline
Day 1, Morning Session
- Introduction of trainees & trainers
- Course Goals, Prerequisites and Outcomes (Explanation of the training outline)
- Introduction of the Daisy Consortium
- Introduction to the Daisy DTB
- Global & local navigation concepts
- Playback Tools Overview
- Demonstration: Playback of DAISY books (understanding what we can do with playback tools and what we have to consider at the creation process)
Exercise 1: installing Daisy Book players
Exercise 2: Playback of different types of Daisy DTBs – DAISY 2.02 TOC, DAISY 3 Full text & full audio (human & TTS voice)
- Demonstration: The DAISY player for Mobile Phones
Day 1, Afternoon Session
- Production Tools Overview
- Overview of Dolphin Publisher – the Daisy 2.02 & DAISY 3 book production tool
- Using sample projects for understanding of the Publisher GUI
Exercise 3: Converting a short document into a human voice recorded DAISY book
- Project settings
- Recording
Day 2, Morning Session
Exercise 4: Converting another document into human voice recorded DAISY book
- Project setup
- markup the document structure
- about document semantics (inter-relationship between headings and other navigational elements)
- recording
- editing
Day 2, Afternoon Session
- Exercise 4 continued
- inserting images
- Music and Maths content
- inserting Skippable elements:
- Page number
- Side bars
- Foot notes
- Producer notes
- Build book
- Book finalization and validation
Day 3, Morning Session
Exercise 5: Converting documents into a DAISY book with TTS recording
- Project setup
- TTS configuration
- Book validation and
- Build book
Day 3, Afternoon Session
Exercise 6: Creating a project from audio files
- Project setup
- Importing audio files
- Adding text
- Editing audio and text for synchronization
- Book finalization
Day 4, Morning Session
- Using DAISY Pipeline and SAVE AS DAISY ADD-IN
- Converting Word documents into DAISY books
- Validating DTBs
- Creating other formats
Day 4, Afternoon Session
- Creating distribution CDs with multiple books
- Creating diskinfo file
- Backup and storage considerations
- Orientation of the DAISY website and technical support
- Posting queries on DAISY forums
- Joining the technical support mailing list
- Subscribing to the DAISY planet for latest DAISY related news
Exercise 7: Starting work on final project
- Each trainee will create one DTB on his own
- Selection of starting documents with the help of trainer
Day 5, Morning session
- Work on final projects continued
Day 5, Afternoon Session
- Presentations by each trainee: (Trainees will demonstrate their final projects giving details of the tools used, production method, problems faced & their Daisy related work in the near future)
- Presentation & distribution of Resource CD
- Questions
- Review & feedback
- Closing
Training Materials
Training material essential to read and to training session
- Introduction to DAISY (doc, 34,5KB) | You will learn about an exciting digital standard that permits everyone, but especially people who are blind, visually impaired, or have another print disability, to experience a better way to read.
- Dolphin Publisher Notes (rtf, 374,1KB) | The normal steps to creating a DTB are: 1. Create a project. 2. Do all editing that is needed such as add structure, audio, text, etc. 3. Build the DTB. 4. Validate the DTB (not the project) with suitable tools.
- Dolphin Publisher Keyboard Commands (rtf, 33,3KB) | Dolphin Publisher Keyboard Commands after installation of JAWS scripts.
- Save As DAISY - QuickStart (doc, 108,0KB) | Converting Word 2007 document to DAISY DTBook.
- The New Seven Wonders of the World (doc, 3.4MB) | this is a text sample to use during the training session.
- Outline of the training session (rtf, 146KB) | this outline is a copy in rtf format of the outline present in this same page.
Training material optional to read and to training session
Authoring/Production Tools
DAISY Resources
Software Playback Tools
AMIS | free open source DAISY playback software developed by the DAISY Consortium. Highlights of AMIS include its self-voicing interface, playback rate control, text searching and bookmarking, reading options, and page style customization. AMIS is available in multiple languages. AMIS runs on Windows and supports DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO-2005 books.
DAISY Pipeline | The DAISY Pipeline is a cross-platform, open source transformation utility, supporting conversion to and from a wide variety of file formats.
Dolphin Publisher Demo (30 day) | Professional Digital talking book authoring software.
