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What are the System Requirements for running Emerson?You will need Java 5 or later. If its not already installed, you typically want to visit java.com to download Java. You also need an operating system to install Java on. Windows, Mac OS X or Linux should do the trick. Solaris is not yet tested. Linux users: OpenJDK should work, but has not been extensively tested. Linux users: there are known issues with Emerson and PulseAudio, use ALSA audio drivers. See also this workaround suggestion. What e-text formats does Emerson support?At the time of writing, Emerson supports the EPUB format. What kinds of DTBs does Emerson support?First regarding DAISY support: Emerson is an audio DTB player. At the time of writing, it does not support text-only DTBs. The Daisy formats supported at the time of writing is Daisy 2.02 and Daisy 3 version 2005 (formally ANSI/NISO Z3986-2005). What audio formats does Emerson support?At the time of writing, Emerson supports only MP3 encoded DTBs. Neither WAV nor AAC is supported. Does Emerson support Time Scale Modification (speed up and slow down) for DAISY DTBs?No it does not. For players (free and commercial) that supports this feature visit the daisy.org tools page. Can Emerson play Daisy text books, like those distributed by Bookshare?No. Please see What kinds of DTBs does Emerson support? above. Does Emerson support DRM (encrypted) content?No. Is Emerson self-voicing?No. Emerson is intended to work directly with the users own access devices, such as screen readers for voicing. |
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I like the ideas of this project. A cross-platform daisy/epub reader will help people gain access to all sorts of electronic materials. However, I think that the project could use some more development in the text daisy format and improve the epub format.
Any thougts about developing the Daisy Reader with the possibility to change reading speed and size of text?
This is good initiative. I believe currently it is difficult for the developers to test the epub3 files, since there is no device which has 100% epub3 compliance. So hopefully Emerson will be solving this issue too.