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New Macintosh DAISY Book Player in Development

5 May, 2008 @ 9:26 am by Lioncourt

Curtain University Center for Accessible Technology (CUCAT) is developing a free and open source DAISY book player for Mac OS X. The application, christened Olearia after a variety of Australian daisy flower, will support playback of DAISY 2.02, DAISY/NISO 2002, DAISY/NISO 2005, and text-only DAISY digital talking books (i.e. Bookshare.org and NIAMS). More information is available at the Olearia page at CUCAT.org.

DAISY is an international standard for digital talking books for the blind and print disabled.

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2 Responses to “New Macintosh DAISY Book Player in Development”

  1. BlindGeek interjected:

    This should bring a smile to Greg Kearney’s face. (And then the fact that I more likely than not butchered the spelling of his last name will quickly cause said smile to leave. Ah well, heavy is the burden of being me…)

    May 6th, 2008 at 7:52 am
  2. BlindGenius noted:

    Just a little update for those that are following this Project.

    Olearia has moved and the repository is now located at
    http://olearia.googlecode.com

    Olearia is nearing full 0.9 release status with support for 2.02 and 2002/2005 Books.
    There is no text only support at this point but hey I am doing this all by myself (No I am not Greg ;)

    Comments and issues would be appreciated.

    October 26th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

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