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NLS: That All May Read

Digital Books and Magazines

Frequently Asked Questions: Digital Talking Books

Factsheet: Web-Braille

Snapshot of Steps, Some with Links

• Research and development began in early 1990's
• Continuous assessment of consumer products
• Participated in creating standards
• Contest to design a DTB playback machine
• Developing software toolkit for generating DTB files
• Experimenting with creating digital narration of books
• Building a digital collection

Roadmap for Digital Audio Talking Books

Our roadmap was first stated in a 1998 document, Digital Talking Books: Planning for the Future (July 1998). This has been updated in Digital Talking Books: Progress to Date (May 2002). You may also want to check out these areas of our site for DTB-related information: press releases     technical writings      speeches included in other writings

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Posted on 2004-10-20