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Commercial Opportunities in Accessible Publishing and
ePub
Innovation in Publishing Congress23 april 2015
Staffan [email protected]
Mike van [email protected]
Delivering speech technology that allows users to access information
Anywhere and Anytime
Barrier Free (Click & Listen)
Applicable on all possible content (online and offline)
Customizable (by client and by end-user)
Universal Design for All
Speech as a Service (SaaS)
ReadSpeaker Vision
2
It is about supporting the reading / learning style of the individual user
ReadingVideosListeningResearchingDiscussingExercisingAssessingOn-the-go
HTML(5)PDFsDatabasesAppsGamesOn-lineOff-lineBlended
Enhanced Learning
ReadSpeakerEnterprise
ReadSpeakerDocReader
ReadSpeakerNarrator
ReadSpeaker Customised
solutions
ReadSpeakerDaisy
Generator
ReadSpeakerTextAid
Listen to HTML
Listen to online
DocumentsListen to
epub3 off-line
Listen: special needs
personal reading support
Embedded in Publisher
solutions
ReadSpeaker Narrator
How does it work?
EXTRACTION
Content
Structure
Images
ACSS
Dict
CSS
TTS
Processing
Profile/template
Tags
Production and Download EPUB/DAISY
The production is completed and the end result can be downloaded and used.
ReadSpeaker Narrator: features
Web based SaaS (cloud) solution (works from anywhere) Simple and accessible User Interface Multiple input formats supported
Plain HTML, HTML from MS Word, DTBook XML, PDF, RTF Multiple DTB and e-Text output formats
DAISY 2.02 formats, EPUB3, DAISY Text, DTBook XML PDF text extraction and auto-tagging algorithms “Production profiles”
Input- and output formats CSS, ACSS Pronunciation dictionaries TTS voices settings
Evolution versus Revolution:
Evolution: “Take existing publications and re-work / convert / transform into new formats (ePub, HTML5)”
Revolution: “Create new publications from the ground up to allow for a totally new experience (in reading / learning / listening)”
Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub
Who owns the eyeballs:
“A publisher aims to provide his own full service platform that gives the user a uniform experience of all the content / applications of that publisher”
“The user uses one environment to consume all content / applications, without a direct link / visibility / connection to an individual publisher”
Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub
First mover (dis)advantage:
“There is not enough content that is already available to allow for larger investments in on/offline reading appplications / technologies / alternatives”
“There are not enough generic reading applications /devices/ players to justify investing in conversion of content to latest technology / possibilities / functionalities”
Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub
On-line or Off-line:
“User will always want to have their books on their device”
“Connectivity is no issue any more; online models are the future”
Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub
Books or On-Demand:
“Pay for what you read; read what you want; subscription models”
“The container will remain the book; it is about selling digital books”
Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub
