Obi: Free accessible audio production tool

Obi helps audio publishers quickly and easily create digital talking books for the blind and people with reading or learning impairments around the world

Obi Version 3.7 makes Obi even easier to configure to meet diverse requirements of different organizations.

Obi 3.7 introduces the capability to preserve the current preference settings as a profile, which can be ported across workstations and Obi versions in a single step.

• Obi can be easily localized into other languages

• Minimal learning curve - simple user Interface with on screen help (or tips) make Obi easy to learn

• Users can produce digital talking books (DTBs) conforming to DAISY 3, DAISY 2.02 and EPUB 3 standards

• Full accessibility – supports keyboard navigation, magnification of text and graphics

• Screen readers, including open source screen readers, are also supported

• Customizable keyboard shortcuts

• Import projects from a wide range of formats including full-text full-audio DAISY book, audio-NCX, DAISY 3, DTBook XML, XHTML, WAV and MP3

• Supports undo and redo editing operations• Obi fills in the gaps and facilitates accessible publication production worldwide to overcome obstacles like language barriers and cost constraints

Please visit the Obi project page to download Obi

[http://www.daisy.org/obi/]

Obi Frequently Asked Questions can be found at [http://daisy.org/obi/obi-faq/ ]

Obi Tutorials are available on DAISYpedia [http://daisy.org/daisypedia/obi/]

Post your questions to Obi forum on the DAISY Consortium website:

[http://daisy.org/forums/obi]