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Making newspapers accessible: Production to playback

EEAF, Paris 8th 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

• pen 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

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Automated serverbased content processing system

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Imports XML and PDF and measures difference

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Presents a report on missing words in XML content

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An effective tool to examine quality of XML content

Production

Editing in MS Word

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Pratsam Producer exports Word-documents with structured content from each newspaper

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TV- and radio listings imported as XML from separate service and included in the documents

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Missing ads, texts and headlines added manually from PDF

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Seven employees working part-time every morning

Production

TTS production

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Word ”manuscript” uploaded to Pratsam Producer (in the cloud) when editing is ready

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TTS production with DAISY Pipeline and Acapela speech synthesis

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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

Demo

Demo time

Overview

Thank you! Merci! Tack! Kiitos!

Daniel Ainasoja daniel@pratsam.com www.pratsam.com