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Hi everyone and welcome to a demonstration of Kolibre open source software on Raspberry Pi unit.
This video will briefly demonstrate what you can do with this audiobook player software
and we have chosen Raspberry Pi as the platform.
What we have here is the Raspberry Pi unit, a speaker and a keypad
and the Raspberry Pi is connected to the Internet
and the software and the settings
is on the SD card and what's special about this audiobook player
is that it supports the international Daisy standard
which is used by print disable such as visually impaired to playback accessible books, magazines and newspapers.
And Daisy is nowadays a widely spread standard
among libraries and organizations internationally
and we hope this solution can boost creativity and bring forward
new solutions to help print disabled get access to information.
Ok, let's demonstrate the player.
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Two publications available.
Publication one: A Light Man by Henry James
Loading publication. Continuing from previous position.
35 percent read.
Navigation level: Page
Navigation level: Level 1
Next level one.
Add new bookmark, confirm using down arrow.
New bookmark added, number six.
Continuing.
Quick menu is opening. Quick menu contains 5 options.
Option 1. Playback speed
2. Sleeptimer
3. Automatic playback
4. Jump to position
5. Content information
Continuing.
Pausing.
Ok, that was so brief demonstration of the Kolibre software
and it uses eSpeak as a guiding voice
a free speech synthesis available
at Sourceforge.org
and you can of course record your own guiding voice
in different languages or use another TTS when you build the software.
And on Github.com you'll find the open source code.
There's also wikipages that explains how you can build from source
and the content we played back here is from the
International Daisy Consortium
and you can download it from their website
It's sample content that is in public domain.
if you want to try it out.
The server is the Kolibre KADOS open source code
that you can also download from Github.
It should be pretty easy to set up your own server
with content and try this solution out.
The hardware for this you can get for under a hundred euros,
maybe down to 50 euros for a set up like this.
We use a cheap numpad just to demonstrate the navigation.
Feel free to take contact to Kolibre if you have any questions,
through Github or at Kolibre.org you'll find some information
on on how to contact I if you have any questions.
Thank you!