National Library for Persons with Disabilities Distributes Free Manual for Producing Audio E-Books

The National Library for Disabled Persons (Director Won Jongpil) has published and distributed a manual for using alternative material authoring tools to enable anyone to easily create alternative materials in digital file formats, in response to the increased demand for online alternative material services for disabled persons after COVID-19.

The manual includes methods for producing DAISY materials using Text To Speech synthesis for the visually impaired and e-books based on the international e-book standard format epub 3.0. It is structured to help even beginners who are unfamiliar with alternative materials easily understand and follow along by presenting everything from program installation to step-by-step production methods and various examples.

The original manual and video materials can be downloaded from the National Library for Disabled Persons website. In particular, DAISY format and EPUB 3.0 format files are also provided so that disabled persons can directly understand the production methods.

A library official stated, “We hope that by utilizing this manual, the ability to produce alternative materials among libraries, welfare centers, and parents of disabled children will improve, and that more alternative materials will be shared, thereby expanding information accessibility for disabled persons.”

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