Olearia is a project written entirely in Cocoa/Objective-C and is designed to bring the versatility of talking books (Both Daisy and others) to Mac OS X. Due to recent enhancements in accessibility and code generation with the release of Leopard (OS X 10.5) Olearia is only available for 10.5 and newer.

Currently Olearia will open and play Daisy V3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005) books and DAISY version 2.02 With Audio Content.

Text only books will be supported in the next release.

Other format variations such as Bookshare and possibly epub will be available in the next release.

Features

• Full navigation of the book structure.
• Choice of normal or high contrast Icons for low vision users.
• Fast forward and rewind of audio.
• Playback speed and volume adjustment on a per book basis.
• Information panel showing all available metadata.
• Loading of last book read at startup.
• Auto loading from removable media.
• Remembering current playback position of books read.
• French and Norwegian localizations, localizations for other languages are appreciated
• Direct page access (ie go to Page). (to be implemented)
• Bookmark management on a per book basis. (to be implemented)

Feature Requests and bug reports can be made here

Help is always appreciated and feel free to contact us if you would like to contribute to this project.