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What formats does Bookshare use?

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What formats does Bookshare use?

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Bookshare uses the following formats: • DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is the digital talking book standard. The ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book enable text-based navigation to levels such as chapters, pages, and paragraphs. All Bookshare books are made available in the DAISY format. Presently, Bookshare DAISY files contain only text, no audio. Once delivered to the user’s PC, the electronic text in the DAISY file can be spoken to the user using synthetic speech: a computer-generated voice that speaks the text aloud. This can be done by specialized software that knows how to speak the text. There is a range of different voice synthesizers available, each with its own voice characteristics. DAISY players also enable navigation by keyboard commands and text-to-speech. Bookshare offers two free DAISY readers with membership: • Victor Reader Soft Bookshare Edition by Humanware. • READ:OutLoud Bookshare Edition by Don Johnston. You can view the st