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Making newspapers accessible: Production to playback EEAF, Paris 8 th June 2015 Daniel Ainasoja

Presenter Daniel Ainasoja  International Sales Manager at Pratsam  CEO of Finlands svenska taltidningsförening FSTF (The Association of Swedish Talking Newspapers in Finland)  CEO of Kolibre, a finnish association developing open source software with DAISY support  Working 12 years developing tools to make newspapers and books accessible for the visually impaired  BSc in Telecommunications and former journalist

About Pratsam Pratsam, founded in 2005  Delivering talking newspapers via the internet since 2005 in Finland (organized by FSTF since 2013)  Delivering talking books online since 2009 for Celia, the national library for the print disabled  One million publications delivered, 5000 users in Finland  Supporting DAISY standards

Case: FSTF The challenge for the organization  Nine newspapers, 2.500 issues published every year, from 3 to 7 days a week  Less volunteering readers, speech synthesis (TTS) only way forward  Need for a cost effective, fast and smooth distribution  Different playback applications and devices for different needs

Production Available digital newspaper content  Printed paper available as PDF documents  Automatic conversion to DAISY does not give a good result  Conversion done only manually with an OCR-program such as ABBYY Finereader or Omnipage  Newspaper archived stories available in XML  Not all articles, depending on discipline at the newspaper  Sometimes messy: no headline, missing textblocks, etc  No ads: deaths, births, product warnings missing

Production Pratsam Producer Automated serverbased  content processing system Imports XML and PDF and  measures difference Presents a report on missing  words in XML content An effective tool to examine  quality of XML content

Production Editing in MS Word Pratsam Producer exports  Word-documents with structured content from each newspaper TV- and radio listings imported  as XML from separate service and included in the documents Missing ads, texts and headlines  added manually from PDF Seven employees working  part-time every morning

Production TTS production Word ” manuscript ”  uploaded to Pratsam Producer (in the cloud) when editing is ready TTS production with  DAISY Pipeline and Acapela speech synthesis Automatic export to  cloudbased distribution service Pratsam Server

Distribution Pratsam Server solution  Both cloudbased and dedicated server distribution  Standalone or integrated with existing library systems  DAISY Online support  Statistics reports, logging  Watermarking optional  Scalable without limits

Distribution Pratsam Server admin  Admin interface in webbrowser  Administration of users, publications and players  User pages where users can login and download content and software

Playback Pratsam Mobile  Pocket size player  Mobile network support  Battery operated  DAISY 2.02 and DAISY Online Pratsam Reader App  Pyxima solution  DAISY and DAISY Online  Launch in Finland 2015

Playback Pratsam Reader  Native Microsoft Windows application  DAISY 2.02 and DAISY Online  Built-in audio user interface (no need for a screenreader)  Keyboard shortcuts  Can be distributed via e-mail

Playback Pratsam Reader Web  No installation required  Uses a standard webbrowser  Supports Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer  Works on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, iOS, Android  Works on mobile smartphones and tablets  Supports DAISY 2.02

Playback Pratsam Reader Web  Bookmarks  Nine shortcut keys to play, pause, jump, open menu and add bookmarks  Unique link to content can be sent by e-mail to each user  Can also be opened from desktop icon or user pages at Pratsam Server

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Thank you! Merci! Tack! Kiitos! Daniel Ainasoja daniel@pratsam.com www.pratsam.com