Word to Vine Player

Vine players are economical and simple solar-powered audio book players from Solar Grove Solutions. See the article Vine Player Overview for more information.

Simple Vine players like Vine C1 and Vine C2 players   are devices with navigation only to next or previous chapter and they support a simple MP3 files structure. Enhanced Vine Players like models E1, E2 and S2 players support complex folder structure and provide more navigation options to users.

The content of Word document needs to be converted to MP3 files and a suitable folder structure has to be prepared to support the Vine players.

Tools required

• WordToEPUB: You need this free tool from DAISY Consortium to convert the Word document to EPUB.
• DAISY Pipeline App: This free tool from DAISY Consortium has scripts for many format conversions and validation. Download and install this tool. Checkout the DAISY Pipeline App Quick Start Guide.
• Subscription to Microsoft Azure or Google TTS cloud service(highly recommended): DAISY Pipeline can use the Microsoft OneCore voices by default. But you may want to make use of the high quality natural sounding voices available from Microsoft and Google. Read the article Using Azure and Google TTS in DAISY Pipeline and configure DAISY Pipeline with the TTS voices of your choice.

1. Convert Word document to DAISY Audio Book

The process of Recording  Word documents in high quality TTS voices is explained in this tutorial – Convert Word to DAISY audio

2. Convert the DAISY Audio book to Vine Player compatible file-set

You will need to check which type of Vine player is to be supported and accordingly checkout the steps listed in these tutorials:

• Preparing DAISY book for playback on simple Vine Players
• Preparing DAISY books for playback on enhanced Vine Players

You can now transfer the MP3 files to the Vine Players for listening.