List of Digital Accessible Information System software
books can be heard on standalone DAISY players, computers using DAISY playback software, mobile phones, and MP3 players. DAISY books can be distributed on a CD/DVD, memory card or through the Internet. A computerized text DAISY book can be read using refreshable Braille display or screen-reading software, printed as Braille book on paper, converted to a talking book using synthesised voice or a human narration, and also printed on paper as large print book. In addition, it can be read as large print text on computer screen.
Software players
Software-based players include, in alphabetical order:
AMIS - Adaptive Multimedia Information System: an open-source self-voicing player for Windows that works with several screen readers; available many languages; developed by the DAISY Consortium
Android Daisy ePub Reader: an opensource project for the Android platform
AnyDaisy Firefox Extension, by Benetech
ButtercupReader: a web-based silverlight application for DAISY 3 books
CUCAT Olearia, an open-source DAISY reader for Mac OS X
DAISY Book Reader, open-source player for the GNOME desktop
Daisy Delight: open-source player for DAISY 2.02, for Mac OS X and Unix-based systems
daisy-player, an open source, multilingual, ncurses-based program for Linux to play DAISY books from the command line
DaisyDuck: a free player for Daisy 2.02 audio books
DAISYPlayer: free player for Microsoft Windows; only available in Spanish
DaisyWorm: player for DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3, for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad; iOS 4 or higher
Darwin Reader for Android reads DAISY 2.02 and 3.0 text and audio books
Dolphin EasyReader and EasyReader Express, commercial e-book reader with support for DAISY, unprotected ePub and other formats, for Microsoft Windows
Dorina DAISY Reader : an open source, free software for Windows, reads only DAISY 3.0, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
emerson-reader, an open-source and cross-platform Epub and DAISY player
FSReaderDAISY Player Software for PAC Mate and Desktop; supports DAISY 2 and DAISY 3
InDaisy Reader, a player for iPhone and iPod, accessible with VoiceOver; supports Daisy 2.02 and Daisy 3
Kolibre Vadelma, an open source DAISY 2.02-player supporting DAISY Online. Downloads and build instructions available for the Raspberry Pi-platform, compile instructions available for Debian Linux.
MAX DaisyPlayer, a free player for Microsoft Windows.
Mobile DAISY Player, a commercial player for Symbian phones
Pratsam Reader Web, an online DAISY 2.02-player app for web browsers, supporting Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge
Pratsam Reader Win, a Microsoft Windows desktop DAISY 2.02-player a graphical user interface, integrated guiding voice, DAISY Online Delivery Protocol support and keyboard shortcuts for navigation
Read2Go: accessible, commercial e-book reader for Apple iOS devices, specifically for books from Bookshare, an online library for people with print disabilities; developed by Benetech
Read:OutLoud 6
Read:OutLoud Bookshare Edition
ReadHear
Simple Daisy Web Player, an open-source software program that enables users to play DAISY books in a web browser
Texthelp Read&Write
Other relevant software includes:
Daisy Uppsala Archive Project, server-side system for managing DAISY files
There are a wide range of hardware products available that can play DAISY content, usually in a portable form factor. Some of these devices are dedicated to playback of books, while others focus on other functionality, such as PDA or mobile Internet access, and offer DAISY playback as either a feature of the unit or as a software add-on. A short list of products that have built-in support for DAISY playback includes:
Pratsam Mobile, a portable handheld DAISY player that supports cellular networks, the DAISY Online Delivery Protocol, customized for use by the blind and visually impaired
Victor Reader Stream, a hand-held portable DAISY player for the blind, visually handicapped and print impaired, produced by HumanWare
Victor Reader Wave, also by HumanWare, is a portable CD player that can play DAISY content from CD media
BookSense, a similar, smaller unit produced by GW Micro; the advanced XT model features built-in flash memory and Bluetooth headset support for playback, as well as an FM radio
DAISY Demon, an open-source shell around the DAISY Pipeline to help automate the production of DAISY talking books, MP3, ePub, Word and HTML from XML file; developed by the Open University
PipeOnline, a web interface for the DAISY Pipeline
PLEXTALK Recording Software
Pratsam Producer, a production system for producing DAISY, import and management of PDF and XML, content quality measuring tools, automatic export of XHTML, DTBook, EPUB or Microsoft Word documents
Tobi: an authoring tool for DAISY and EPUB 3 talking books
