Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. Charities fret about whether they might get in trouble.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! For those who want to use audio with other mobile devices or DAISY players, we have added DAISY audio and MP3 format download capability for all of our titles, in addition to our existing DAISY text and Braille Ready Format (BRF) options. Thanks again!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
But ebooks and audio books are by far the most popular accessible formats, and publishers do sell them (although ironically many of these have digital rights management technologies designed to defeat illegal copying but also stop accessibility technology).
Tech Soup
APRIL 14, 2014
Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. It reduces the risk of online identity theft.
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