DAISY book production at the ONCE, with the digitization and subsequent reformatting of our stacks to the DAISY standard, has pursued two key objectives: to digitize our collection as quickly and efficiently as possible and to lower the production costs of digital talking books in DAISY format. This discussion describes the highlights of that process.

Making market stands more accessible by using DAISY-technology, vendors can easily catalogue their products each week and use our services to fully automatically generate a DAISY book that contains the product-list that can be downloaded thereafter by interested users as a podcast. Additionally, a market stand can use RFID-technology to make the available products easily identifiable.

An increasing demand for providing accessible content to widely differentiated target groups calls for a universal eBook standard combined with a flexible user interface. For this purpose, we enhanced the current DAISY standard to serve the blind and visually handicapped as well as deaf, hearing impaired, dyslexic and elderly users. In addition to supporting sign language videos and alternatives in simplified language, we introduced videos with media enrichments as a primary source. Additionally a personalizable web player, based on the Adobe Flex Framework, allows real-time streaming and local playback of original and newly developed multimedia DAISY books. Furthermore, the player supports multimodal input such as gesture and speech recognition to facilitate use by physically handicapped people.

DAISY has published a Specification for DAISY Protected Digital Talking Book. This paper discusses why such a specification is useful, not only for rightsholders but also for readers with print disabilities. An implementation of PDTB2 is proposed, called dtbprotect. It makes possible to simply produce an encrypted book from a book in DAISY format. It is currently experimented on the Helene Digital Library for the blind. It will be made available open source as to facilitate its implementation by other digital libraries.

Making market stands more accessible by using DAISY-technology, vendors can easily catalogue their products each week and use our services to fully automatically generate a DAISY book that contains the product-list that can be downloaded thereafter by interested users as a podcast. Additionally, a market stand can use RFID-technology to make the available products easily identifiable.

An increasing demand for providing accessible content to widely differentiated target groups calls for a universal eBook standard combined with a flexible user interface. For this purpose, we enhanced the current DAISY standard to serve the blind and visually handicapped as well as deaf, hearing impaired, dyslexic and elderly users. In addition to supporting sign language videos and alternatives in simplified language, we introduced videos with media enrichments as a primary source. Additionally a personalizable web player, based on the Adobe Flex Framework, allows real-time streaming and local playback of original and newly developed multimedia DAISY books. Furthermore, the player supports multimodal input such as gesture and speech recognition to facilitate use by physically handicapped people.

DAISY book production at the ONCE, with the digitization and subsequent reformatting of our stacks to the DAISY standard, has pursued two key objectives: to digitize our collection as quickly and efficiently as possible and to lower the production costs of digital talking books in DAISY format. This discussion describes the highlights of that process.

ITC/USA 2015 Conference Proceedings / The Fifty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 26-29, 2015 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV / The emission of the telemetry signal is required over minimum two different antennas to keep the telemetry link available during a maneuver of a flying object. If nothing is made at the transmitter side, the telemetry link can be fully lost as both signals may have an opposite phase. We here propose a simple solution based on delay diversity to solve this problem. The basic idea is to introduce a delay between both emitted signals to guarantee a non-destructive signal recombination. We then exploit the ability of the blind equalizer developed by ZDS for the PCM/FM modulation to correctly equalize this signal and to recover the initial data. This solution does not require any modification of the on-board and floor set-ups except the introduction of a delay line between both transmitting antennas. It also does not need any pilot sequence and is natively robust to multipath perturbations.

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