Digital Talking Book Players come in two types: software for your computer [1] and stand-alone portable players [2]. Here are some examples or each of these types of players. This is not an all-inclusive list; new products come out all the time. If you are not sure what a Digital Talking Book is or how to choose a player to listen to these books, please read about Digital Talking Books [3] on this web site before looking at these examples. A link on that page will bring you back here.
The American Printing House for the Blind has two products:
Dolphin, an assistive technology company, also has both a reader and a producer software products:
Innovative Rehabilitation Technology Inc. (I.R.T.I.) produces eClipseware software to read and produce Digital Talking Books:
Freedom Scientific's FSReader [9] is a software application for the PAC Mate PDA and the PC. Used with DAISY formatted talking books, the FSReader has powerful navigation options for reading. FSReader teams up with JAWS to deliver easy accessibility.
gh Player [10] offers a variety of accessibility features such as text-to-speech functionality, digital magnification, contrast enhancement, and synchronized text highlighting for a fuller reading experience.
Victor Reader Soft [11] Victor Reader Soft combines the audio and text mode that let you read the text on screen synchronized with audio and is fully accessible to print disabled persons.Victor Reader Soft offers basic and advanced features: browsing the table of contents, skipping from section to section or returning quickly to a page, insert bookmarks to return to a spot or mark important passages etc. It supports JAWS and Window Eyes screen readers.
These portable devices can be used without your computer although some may provide connectivity to a computer to exchange files. There are other fine players available that we have not included on this list.
Plextalk offers both a player and a player/recorder for recording your own DAISY formatted Digital Talking Book.
Links:
[1] http://www.visionaware.org/digital-talking-book-players#software
[2] http://www.visionaware.org/digital-talking-book-players#hardware
[3] http://www.visionaware.org/listening
[4] http://www.aph.org/beta/bwp_info.htm
[5] http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=9
[6] http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=10
[7] http://www.eclipsereader.com/eClipseReader/index.htm
[8] http://www.eclipsereader.com/eClipseWriter/index.htm
[9] http://www.ulva.com/Online-Store/DAISY-Software/fsreader.htm
[10] http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog/Talking-Books/gh-Player
[11] http://www.lowvisionproducts.com/VictorReaderSoft.htm
[12] http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog/Talking-Books/Plextalk-PTN1-Daisy-Player
[13] http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog/Talking-Books/Plextalk-PTR2-Daisy-Player-Recorder
[14] http://www.ulva.com/Online-Store/DAISY-Players/victor-classic-plus.htm