2. The Evolving World of Digital Audio Books and Players South Carolina Assistive Technology Expo March 15, 2011 Presenters: Lee Speer, Clay Jeffcoat, and Marty McKenzie, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind

3. Objectives Identify a variety of digital book players for people with visual impairments and learning styles. Identify sources for obtaining digital books and players. Update on new digital audio book players and refinements to existing players that benefit readers of all ages.

4. Digital Audio books There are a variety of audio book styles: Plain text Text with markup Plain audio Audio with markup Audio, text and markup.

5. Available formats mp3 wav ogg wma xml Daisy (Digital Assessable Information Sys)

6. Free Digital Books Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Loud Lit http://www.loudlit.org/ Librivox http://librivox.org/ Check your local library

7. Membership required Audio Books RFBD: http://www.rfbd.org/http://www.rfbd.org/ Bookshare: http://www.bookshare.org/http://www.bookshare.org/ NLS: http://www.loc.gov/nls/http://www.loc.gov/nls/ Audible: http://www.audible.com/http://www.audible.com/

8. Obtaining Digital Books Each source has it’s own procedure for downloading. All files are large. Audio files are very large. Files are packaged and must be “unpackaged” prior to use.

9. Unpacking and Moving Files RFBD download manager Humanware companion WinZip Windows Explorer

10. UAK Playing RFB&D or NLS audiobooks. Must have an User Authorization Key (UAK).

11. Examples of Hardware players Victor Reader Stream

12. Hardware (con’t) Victor Reader Classic

13. Hardware (con’t.) Bookport Plus

14. Hardware (con’t.) NLS Digital Talking Book Player

15. Hardware (con’t.) Braille Plus Mobile Manager

16. Examples of Software players Victor Reader Soft "RFB&D Audio" App

17. Questions?

18. Thank you for Attending!