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Claude Almansi

DAISY Consortium Releases Obi 1.0 - Open Source Accessible Multimedia Authoring Tool - 0 views

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    Obi, an open source audio recording tool released by the DAISY Consortium, enables a broader audience to produce accessible, navigable information for people with print disabilities. DAISY audio books created with Obi can be produced with chapters, sections, sub-sections and pages, providing navigation to the content. Obi is fully accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers. In addition, Obi reduces the time required to work with sophisticated production tools and significantly reduces tool costs that may create barriers for some.
Claude Almansi

New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir - WSJ.com Geoffrey A. Fowler and Jeffrey A. Tra... - 0 views

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    Some publishers and agents expressed concern over a new, experimental feature that reads text aloud with a computer-generated voice. "They don't have the right to read a book out loud," said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law."
Roland Gesthuizen

airmac - Airmac - Google Project Hosting - 0 views

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    Airmac is a free application what turns you Macintosh into an Airplay receiver. Now you can stream your movies and pictures to your Mac. Audio is using the Airtunes protocol, this is coming in a next release.
Claude Almansi

Op-Ed Contributor - The Kindle Swindle? - NYTimes.com Roy Blount Jr Authors' Guild Feb ... - 0 views

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    Serves readers, pays writers: so far, so good. But there's another thing about Kindle 2 - its heavily marketed text-to-speech function. Kindle 2 can read books aloud. And Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights.
Claude Almansi

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Quick argument summary [w. agent about Kindle's tts] Feb 11 09 - 0 views

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    Just found myself having a long argument/discussion with my agent over the Amazon Kindle text-to-speech capability. I'm going to summarise it here. Her point of view: The Kindle reading you the book-you-just-bought infringes the copyright (or at least, the rights) to the audiobook. We've sold audiobook rights and print book rights as separate things. We must stop this. My point of view: When you buy a book, you're also buying the right to read it aloud, have it read to you by anyone, read it to your children on long car trips, record yourself reading it and send that to your girlfriend etc. This is the same kind of thing, only without the ability to do the voices properly, and no-one's going to confuse it with an audiobook. And that any authors' societies or publishers who are thinking of spending money on fighting a fundamentally pointless legal case would be much better off taking that money and advertising and promoting what audio books are and what's good about them with it.
Claude Almansi

Op-Ed Contributor - The Kindle Swindle? - NYTimes.com - Roy Blount Jr. (Authors' Guild)... - 0 views

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    Serves readers, pays writers: so far, so good. But there's another thing about Kindle 2 - its heavily marketed text-to-speech function. Kindle 2 can read books aloud. And Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights.
Clif Mims

ipadio - phonecast live to the World, any phone, anywhere - 0 views

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    Broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Useful for phone blogs, collecting audio data, podcasting, and other digital recordings
Claude Almansi

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com » Talk ["0WNED -- HOW HOLLYWOOD PLANS ON MAKING... - 0 views

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    "Here's the audio of my speech last month [Feb 16, 06 at Olin College, a small, elite engineering school outside of Boston. "
Miles Berry

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software - 0 views

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    CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Claude Almansi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society: The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1) [Kindle... - 0 views

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    This isn't a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!) years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it's a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! More on that in another essay. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author's rights vs. the right to access. Since these are both generally good from society's standpoint, how do you handle the conflict between them?
Claude Almansi

The Authors Guild - 2/25/09 - Kindle 2 Audio: How Does It Sound? - 0 views

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    Listening to the examples demonstrates that nobody non-blind and non-masochistic would use the Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature. And as blind people can't use the Kindle 2, what is the point of that feature - and of the Authors' Guild ruckus about it?
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    February 25, 2009. Text-to-speech (TTS) programs have been in use for a number of years, and they're improving. As Roy Blount says in an op-ed in today's New York Times, Kindle 2's TTS isn't Jim Dale reading "Harry Potter," but it's listenable. There's no need to take our word for it; have a listen to the sample below.
Claude Almansi

E07 Podcast: Tomorrow's Students: Are We Ready for the New 21st-Century Learners? | EDU... - 1 views

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    "Created by Gerry Bayne (EDUCAUSE) on October 29, 2007 In this 40 minute podcast, we feature a speech from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference entitled "Tomorrow's Students: Are We Ready for the New 21st-Century Learners?". The presentation is by Julie Evans, Chief Executive Office for Project Tomorrow - NetDay. Video and slides for this speech are also available here. Abstract: The national Speak Up initiative annually collects and reports on the authentic, unfiltered viewpoints of K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school leaders about education technology and 21st-century learning environments. Learn about the expectations of today's K-12 students (the higher ed students of tomorrow) for technology use and their new aspirations for learning as uncovered in the most recent survey data. "
Claude Almansi

Openmoko ships Neo FreeRunner Linux phone [David Meyer 26 Jun 2008] - ZDNet.co.uk - 0 views

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    Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner may be the open-source world's answer to the iPhone
Claude Almansi

Getting started with Ogg - Free Software Foundation - 0 views

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    Are you tired of constantly being prompted to download proprietary software and plugins to play the videos and listen to the music you want?
Claude Almansi

Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud - Boing Boing - Cory Docto... - 0 views

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    Time and again, the Author's Guild has shown itself to be the epitome of a venal special interest group, the kind of grasping, foolish posturers that make the public cynically assume that the profession it represents is a racket, not a trade. This is, after all, the same gang of weirdos who opposed the used book trade going online. I think there's plenty not to like about the Kindle -- the DRM, the proprietary file format, both imposed on authors and publishers even if they don't want it -- and about Amazon's real audiobook section, Audible (the DRM -- again, imposed on authors and publishers even if they'd prefer not to use it). But if there's one thing Amazon has demonstrated, it's that it plans on selling several bazillion metric tons of audiobooks. They control something like 90 percent of the market. To accuse them of setting out to destroy it just doesn't pass the giggle-test.
Claude Almansi

[A2k] Kindle 2 protest April 7 NYC 12 to 2pm (Manon Ress, Mar 20 09) - 0 views

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    A coalition of organizations representing people who cannot read print will protest the removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 at the Authors Guild headquarters in NY City at 31 East 32nd Street on April 7, 2009, 12 to 2:00 p.m. Join us there! Manon
Claude Almansi

NFB - National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amazo... - 0 views

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    Same as in Forbes' but on the NFB site with contact info
Claude Almansi

Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2's read-aloud feature - Los Angeles ... - 0 views

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    Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader. Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device's controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature for individual titles.
Gary Bertoia

Révolution Linux :: Top 10 Free and Open Source Software in Education - 6 views

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    "Here are the various documents available for "Top 10 Free and Open Source Software in Education" :"
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