Finding Daisies

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Our DAISYs are produced automatically within the workflow we currently use as we scan books. They rely on the OCR produced in the scanning process and are therefore susceptible to errors, which may include weird characters, non-words, and guesses at structure where we can't find any. We're thinking about ways to get community input into OCR and book structure error correction. (If you're interested in helping us, or know of good resources in these areas, please let us know.) The Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) format is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear--and to navigate--written material presented in an audible format. DAISY helps those with "print disabilities," including blindness, impaired vision, and dyslexia, to read electronic texts that have been converted into its format. The DAISY consortium was formed in 1996 by talking book libraries around the world to lead the transition from analog talking books into digital format.

Our Talking Books service is absolutely free. Giving you access to over 40,000 fiction and non fiction books for adults and children in accessible formats that suits you. Formats available In Chasing Daisies, Jessica is healing. And this book is all about her healing and it’s beautiful. My heart breaks for the things she’s been through and trauma she’s had to over come but her writing and the way she heals every part of herself including her inner child is beautiful.

We have successfully tested reading protected DAISYs on the Humanware Victor Stream Reader with Firmware 3.2 or greater and an NLS key installed. These three devices should also be able to read all of our open DAISYs. We will continue to send out Talking Books on CD at the reading rate of each reader. An avid reader will continue to receive frequent books and an occasional reader will receive fewer books at the same speed they currently do now. Or you can now get your books through an Alexa enabled device such as your smart speaker, tablet or phone. All our Talking Books are unabridged and high quality, giving you the best possible reading and listening experience. If you are with an organization that produces quality text-to-speech software, we'd like to hear from you!)

As someone who has had the exact same dreams as Imogen for as long as I can remember and who has also worked many unpaid internships and written a blog to progress my writing career, I could easily empathise with her. I found it more difficult to immediately warm to Harri.Terms and conditions for RNIB Summer 2023 Raffle Speed Draw to win a Regency Hampers luxury picnic hamper Not yet! Internet Archive books are text-only, and thus can only be listened to with software or devices that do their own text-to-speech conversion. The new NLS player plays only books with included audio and thus can't play our books. We are looking at producing DAISY books with included text-to-speech audio in the future. I absolutely loved Insatiable, so when I saw Careering on Netgalley I tripped over myself to request it, and I’m so glad I did. Imogen is an unpaid intern at Panache, the magazine of her dreams. She’s also broke, exhausted, and working minimum wage factory jobs 24/7 for the privilege of being the office tea girl. Careering tells the story of her and her boss, Harri, as they navigate the negatives of investing your whole life into your career and watching it all crumble.