The DAISY Planet Newsletter
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Recent News
2008-10-03
Evaluation of portable media players published by AFB
2008-09-30odt2dtbook receives the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Gold Award
2008-09-29DAISY Planet Newsletter for September 2008 Now Available
2008-09-172008-09-10DAISY Consortium Named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by The Tech Museum of Innovation
2008-09-09Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing: Call for Papers
2008-08-12CSUN 2009 - Call for Papers to be Announced
2008-08-11DAISY Consortium President Hiroshi Kawamura Receives 2008 Dr. Dayton M. Forman Award
DAISY Marketplace
Code Factory's Mobile DAISY player V2.0
Released August 8, 2008
The Mobile DAISY Player V2.0 includes support for DAISY 2.0 and 3.0 formats, allowing access to a wider variety of content and providers. It automatically unpacks Bookshare.org books, making it unnecessary to install and run a separate application just to decompress Bookshare files. Code Factory joined the DAISY Consortium in September 2008.
Activated Content .NET Audio Watermarking Library
Activated Content .NET Audio Watermarking Library can be used to watermark your DAISY files, either for downloads or books on disc. Activated Content joined the DAISY Consortium in August 2008.
Victor Reader Stream 2.0 by HumanWare
Released July, 2008
There are exciting new features and improvements in software version 2.0 which is the most comprehensive software upgrade yet released for the Stream.
Highlights of 2.0 include: new dedicated bookshelf to save downloaded podcast audio files; audible books will now be announced on its own bookshelf instead of Other Books bookshelf; support of electronic Braille (BRF) files placed on the text bookshelf; support for Rich Text Format (RTF) files on the text bookshelf; support for unprotected Windows Media Audio (WMA version 9); spell mode for text files; ability to disable key beeps and sleep messages; ...and much more. Release Notes are included in the software download and are also available on the VictorReader Stream page. A complete description of all new features and improvements is included.
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