ODT to Daisy (AEGIS project)

1. odt2daisy: Generating DAISY Books from OpenOffice.org Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven, Belgium [email_address]

3. Objectives

4. Methodology

5. Results

6. Conclusion & Outlook

7. (Time for demo?)

9. DAISY – ANSI/NISO Z39/86

11. for blind & visually impaired users

12. i.e. not by users (in 2007)

14. In a free and open-source office suite

16. DAISY 2.02 (for older players)

17. Multilingual content

18. Mathematical Markup Language

20. Functionality available as extension and as reusable JAR (Java Archive)

22. comprehensive set of test documents (regression testing)

23. Support for multilingual content on Windows

25. Validates output

26. Reusable Java library

27. Command line interface

29. Uses OpenOffice.org UNO API

30. Uses odt2daisy library

31. Uses DAISY Pipeline Lite (speech synthesis)

34. Developer documentation

35. Test files for regression testing

36. TTS in 27 languages where eSpeak is available (Linux, Windows)

37. Compatible with OOo Writer 3.0 or higher

39. Page numbering (1,i,I,a,A; advanced)

40. Front / body / rear matter

41. “Complex text layout” and East-Asian languages not supported

43. Compatible with OpenOffice.org 3.2

45. Integrated into DAISY Pipeline by DAISY Consortium

47. Licensing: MP3 vs Ogg Vorbis for TTS

48. TTS quality: TTS as internet service/ in cloud computing?

49. Accessibility checking before export

51. Twitter: aegisproj

52. Christophe Strobbe: [email_address]