DaisyNow.Net - The starting page

The starting page of the Online Digital Talking Book project

In order to start playing an online Digital Talking Book (DTB) in the DAISY/NISO standard via Internet using a web-browser, you need to install the plugin called Silverlight version 2 from Microsoft. Once you have finished the Silverlight installation, you should hear the Silverlight introduction from this test page. Then, you can select a book you like from the available DAISY/NISO book list in this page. The summarized shortcut is also provided in the bottom of this page. Please note that this is a beta version, any comments are really welcome and appreciated at my blog!

Available Silverlight installation options
1. Windows Silverlight 2 Installation for people who are using Internet Explorer 6/7 or Firefox 1.5+ on Windows XP SP2 and Windows VISTA.
2. Macintosh Silverlight 2 Installation for people who are using Firefox 1.5+ and Safari on Mac OSX 10.4+.

More information about Microsoft Siverlight
(*) Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in for building the next generation of rich media and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight seamlessly integrates with existing Web applications and supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality audio and video to all major browsers running on the Mac or Windows.(from www.silverlight.net)

Available DAISY/NISO book list
Sample DAISY Book number 1

1. "Roughing It by Mark Twain", Read by Mac OS X Speech Synthesis (Macintalk) software, Produce by Greg Kearney, Source by Bookshare.org
Sample DAISY Book number 2

2. "The Book of Mormon", one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is regarded by Latter Day Saints as divinely revealed and is named after the prophetâ€“historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book
Sample DAISY book number 3

3. "The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth", Released to the public in 1904. Compiled by the Unites States of America's third president, Thomas Jefferson
Sample DAISY Book number 4

4. "VoiceOver Getting Started", Includes instructions and complete command lists for using VoiceOver with Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard
(Total 4 books found.)

Shortcut Keys*

Available Key	*Available Function*
NUMPAD1 or END	Go to the last header
NUMPAD2 or DOWN	Go to the next header
NUMPAD3 or PAGEDOWN	Go to the next page
NUMPAD4 or LEFT	Go to the previous phrase
NUMPAD5 or SPACEBAR	Stop or Continue
NUMPAD6 or RIGHT	Go to the previous phrase
NUMPAD7 or HOME	Go to the first heading, It may use for start playing
NUMPAD8 or UP	Go to the previous header
NUMPAD9 or PAGEUP	Go to the previous page
ADD (+)	Increase the volume of reading voice
SUBTRACT (-)	Decrease the volume of reading voice
DECIMAL (.)	Toggle Mute or Un-Mute reading voice
MULTIPLY (*)	Open searching dialog for entering a keyword to perform the full-text search feature
Devide (/)	Open page number dialog for entering a particular page number you want to go
F8	Search to the previous position of the keyword
F9	Search to the next position of the keyword
SHIFT+DIGIT1-DIGIT9	Set a bookmark #1-#9
CTRL+DIGIT1-DIGIT9	Go to a bookmark #1-#9
SHIFT+CTRL+DIGIT1-DIGIT9	Delete a bookmark #1-#9


---Future Key--td>	*---Future Function--*
CTRL+NUMPAD2	Go to the next header in the same level
CTRL+NUMPAD8	Go to the previous header in the same level
CTRL+NUMPAD4	Go to the child level
CTRL+NUMPAD6	Go to the parent level
CTRL+NUMPAD3	Go to the next 5 seconds
CTRL+NUMPAD9	Go to the previous 5 secound
ESCAPE	Go to the bookshelf
Your key here...1td>	Your function here...1
Your key here...2	Your function here...2
Your key here...3	Your function here...3

(*) For the Firefox user, please make sure that your focus is on the Silverlight (buttons) object.
(*) For the IE user, please make sure that your focus isn't in the iFrame (descriptive text) object.