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Thursday, 12 Nov 2009
Odt2DAISY - create DAISY Digital Talking Books with OpenOffice.org!
Malte Timmermann

Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release here.

The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking books.

I recommend this extension for everybody who wants to create DAISY books. Binaries and source files are available on sourceforge, the license is LGPL 3.

If you never heard of DAISY before, you might want to look at the screen casts which will show you how it works.

Thank you very much for this great OpenOffice.org extension!

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Posted by Malte Timmermann on 12 Nov 2009  |  PermaLink |  Bookmark to Delicious To Delicious |  Digg this Digg this  |  Comments[4]

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Martin said:

Great. But what now with issue 83604?

Posted by Martin on November 12, 2009 at 01:45 PM CET #

Mathias Bauer said:

The remaining part of issue 83604 can be re-written as a question: do we want to have extensions or not?

The idea of an extension is that is shall provide functionality that only a small group of users will want to use. IMHO the DAISY export perfectly fits into that category, as does MediaWiki support. So for me having it in an extension is enough. I don't want to include it into the core package, though I'm a frequent user of the MediaWiki extension by myself.

Posted by Mathias Bauer on November 12, 2009 at 02:49 PM CET #

Malte Timmermann said:

I agree with Mathias - we should close the issue, linking to the extension.

Posted by Malte Timmermann on November 12, 2009 at 03:13 PM CET #

karl said:

Maybee it would be better if OpenOffice.org get support for ligatures...

Posted by karl on November 12, 2009 at 05:26 PM CET #

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