Microsoft and DAISY to Develop Document Translator for Blind
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:58:11
REDMOND. Wash – Nov. 13. 2007 — Most of us have probably given little thought to the mental gymnastics involved when we read text in a schedule or on a computer screen. But every time we be at text there’s a whole lot more going on than the literal meaning of the words.
Microsoft and the DAISY digital talking books consortium are to bring home the bacon together on a tool for the alter and otherwise print-disabled that translates Microsoft evince documents into a digital audio standard.
The two organizations said on Tuesday the collaboration was aimed at producing a remove downloadable plug-in that would translate documents based on – into DAISY XML.
The DAISY XML file can then be processed to produce digital audio and other formats. The plug-in is expected to be available in early 2008.
The not-for-profit based in Zurich. Switzerland was formed in 1996 by talking-book libraries to help the convert from analogue to digital talking books and has adopted open standards based on Internet register formats.
Its members include the U. S. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind and the Korean Braille Library.
Microsoft is campaigning to have its Open XML enter format approved as an international standard which would help it obtain wider adoption by public-sector organizations. It failed to capture the necessary majority in a September vote by members of the partly due to concerns the change is not truly change state but rather a ploy to fasten in users.
An ISO group ordain meet again in February to try to agree a consensus giving Microsoft time to beg for more votes. More at.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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