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NLS: That All May Read

Technology Assessment and Research Program

Development of Life Cycle Cost Model for DTBs

Digital Talking Book Distribution Analysis

Factsheet: Web-Braille

Flash Memory Distribution of Digital Talking Books

Frequently Asked Questions: Digital Talking Books (HTML)

Frequently Asked Questions: Digital Talking Books (contracted braille)

NLS Technical Circular 03-02: Audio Technology Initiatives

Strategic Business Plan for the Implementation of Digital Systems

Snapshot of Steps, Some with Links

• Research and development began in early 1990's
• Continuous assessment of consumer products
• Participated in creating standards
• Contest to design a DTB playback machine
• Developing software toolkit for generating DTB files
• Experimenting with creating digital narration of books
• NLS Patron Survey, 2003
• Building a digital collection

Roadmap for Digital Audio Talking Books

Our roadmap was first stated in a 1998 document, Digital Talking Books: Planning for the Future (July 1998). This has been updated in Digital Talking Books: Progress to Date (May 2002). Followed by the Strategic Business Plan for 2003. You may also want to check out these areas of our site for DTB-related information: press releases     technical writings      speeches included in other writings

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Posted on 2007-11-29