Obi 5.1 Released
DAISY Consortium is pleased to announce the latest release of Obi, the popular open-source navigable audio book creation tool. Obi produces books conforming to the DAISY 3, DAISY 2.02, W3C Audio Books and accessible EPUB 3 specifications.
Obi 5.1 comes with enhanced functionality by using artificial intelligence (AI), incremental features and bug fixes. The synthetic speech generation has been enhanced by introduction of high-quality Azure AI voices from Microsoft, noise reduction has been enhanced by using AI models, performance is improved for phrase navigation along with other improvements and bug fixes.
Please visit the Obi project area to check out the full list of features and bug fixes, or Download Obi Version 5.1.
The DAISY Consortium would like to extend a special “thank you” to all contributors and supporters for their valuable feedback and support.