eClipseReader EyeNet is an excellent downloading, conversion, and reading tool specifically devised for blind and visually impaired persons who wish to read books in the DAISY format using their computer. It combines all the features available in this well-known DAISY reader with the possibility of browsing the Web and download text files, DAISY books, and DTB-DNA or DTB-RDNA files.
For those not too familiar with the DAISY standard, suffice it to say that it has been described as “the best way to read and to publish”. This NISO standard is used worldwide mainly by institutions serving blind and visually impaired persons to create books that are fully accessible and navigable. These books can contain electronic text, audio, or a combination of both, and are marked-up using XML and SMIL in a way that allows anyone to move around the book just like a sighted reader does when reading a printed book. This is what eClipseReader does – this DAISY book reader allows you to navigate through the different headings in the book, the page numbers, or any other bookmark existing in it. You can create your own bookmarks, and move to your favorite passages in a clean and fast way. When both audio and text are present, these are fully synchronized, and eClipseReader will reproduce the audio while showing you the exact section of the text that is being read aloud. When no audio is present, the text will still be read out to you using any synthetic voice installed in your system. more
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