Text2Go Converts DAISY ebooks to Audiobooks

In a previous post, I asked ‘Where are all the DAISY ebooks hiding?‘ I was looking for some sample ebooks in the DAISY DTBook text only format to test Text2Go’s ebook to audiobook conversion. At the time I could only find one sample ebook in the DAISY DTBook format. I needed a wider selection of ebooks to be confident Text2Go could handle all the various elements of the DTBook format.

Thankfully, Varju Luceno, Communications and Marketing Specialist of the DAISY Consortium provided an extensive list of links to various DTBook sources and Paul Biba over at TeleRead.org also re-posted my plea which netted me a couple more sources.

This has allowed me to dramtically improve the DAISY DTBook support in Text2Go and I’ve just released a new version of the Text2Go 4 beta. I still don’t believe it’s perfect, so I’m offering anyone who finds a bug in Text2Go’s DAISY DTBook support a free Text2Go license. Just use the Support command built into Text2Go to send me an email describing the problem. If I can reproduce the problem I’ll send you a free license.

Note: There are a couple of types of DAISY DTBooks.

1. Many DAISY ebooks already come with an audio track that’s synced to the text. There is no point in using Text2Go to generate speech for these books as they already contain an audio track, often narrated by a real person, rather than synthesized speech.
2. There are text-only DAISY ebooks. These require a specialized reading device or a software application like Text2Go to turn the text into speech. It’s this type of DAISY ebook I want to support.

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