Talking book and e-book converters, editors and viewers
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 17:00 — julian
This section lists e-book and talking book converters, editors and viewers.
- Text2Go
- A commercial text to speech converter.
- DAISY digital talking book specification
- The DAISY digital talking book specification.
- OpenOffice to DAISY converter
- Converts ODT to DAISY.
- DAISY Pipeline
- A set of tools for DAISY conversions.
- Save As DAISY Word add-in
- Save to DAISY add-on for Word, by Microsoft.
- PDFToHTML
- Free PDF to HTML converter.
- eCub EPUB creation tool
- A tool to create EPUB books from text or XHTML.
- Calibre e-book management software
- Contains various command-line tools for converting between e-book formats.
- AMIS free talking book reader
- A free self-voicing talking book reader for Windows from the DAISY consortium.
- Portset DAISY reader
- A simple software DAISY reader for Windows.
- FSReader DAISY reader
- Commercial DAISY reader software from Freedom Scientific.
- Read and Write Gold
- Commercial literacy software including a DAISY reader; Windows and Mac versions available.
- Dolphin EasyReader
- Commercial DAISY talking book reader software.
- Dolphin EasyConverter
- Commercial converter software with scanning and OCR, outputting in a variety of formats such as MP3, DAISY, and Braille.
- Dolphin EasyProducer
- Creates DAISY books from Word files.
- TallyHo
- A free reader for Google Books using Tesseract OCR (supplied by Google) to get text from screen grabs.
- WebAnywhere
- WebAnywhere provides access to the web from any machine with a modern web browser and some way to play audio. It is useful for web developers who would like to check their pages for accessibility and for blind web users using a computer where no other screen reader is available.
