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Obi
This website is basically for development and support. Here you will find additional help documents, downloads and information related to development and maintainance of Obi.
Overview
Obi is a DAISY/NISO authoring tool that is easy to use, accessible and internationalized. Obi provides a powerful editing environment that supports the structured audio recording paradigm. Obi enables anyone with a minimal amount of training to produce rich yet accessible Digital Talking Books. By empowering mainstream users, Obi brings the benefits of DAISY technology to a broader range of consumers. Although the DAISY reading experience was originally designed for print-disabled users (i.e. blind, visually-impaired, dyslexic, etc.), the technology can benefit mainstream users too. In context where time and cost constraints do not normally allow the production of synchronized multimedia (e.g. classroom environment), Obi can unlock the potential of producers and consumers (e.g. teachers and students).
Behind the scenes, Obi utilizes the Urakawa SDK for multimedia authoring and light version of DAISY Pipeline named Pipeline-lite for output validation, mp3 encoding and fileset renaming.
Obi is free software; it is available at no cost, and its source code is available for anyone to run, modify and redistribute. Obi is released under the LGPL license.
Features
By design, Obi is a simple tool with a small feature set:
- Runs on Windows XP (SP2 and later) and Vista; uses .Net and DirectX for audio
- Support for audio-only book editing with a table of contents (in DAISY terms, this means NCX-only DTBs)
- Support for uncompressed RIFF/WAVE audio format while production and support for exporting DAISY book in mp3 format for distribution
- Full accessibility (keyboard navigation, support for screen readers, even for the less sophisticated open source screen readers)
- Internationalization - can be easily localized into various languages
News
- September 11, 2009, Obi 1.1 is released with a new feature set, enhancements and bug fixes. Please visit what's new page for further details.
- July 24, 2009 Obi 1.1 RC1 is now available. To know about improvements and augmentations in this version, please visit about Obi 1.1 RC1. We are looking forward to your suggestions and bug reports.
- March 27, 2009, Obi 1.0 is released!
Downloads
Please visit download page for downloading appropriate setup of Obi. Two types of installers have been provided. One that installs all dependencies from internet which requires a good internet connection and another contains all dependencies in itself that can be used for offline installations as well for burning installation CDs.
Also one can find other useful downloads like screen reader scripts, sample projects etc.
Online help documents
To know more about using Obi, please visit our online documentation page.
These help documents are additional to documents packaged with Obi and will be updated regularly.
Queries related to Obi
For any queries or feature related discussions, please visit Obi forum, where you can interact with developers and other users of Obi.
Known limitations
Obi 1.0 has some known limitations and the team is working conscientiously towards overcoming them in future releases. Details can be found at List of known limitations. Please read this before reporting any new bugs. (If you want to report a bug after going through it, then please visit Instructions for submitting bug reports)
Contributing organisations
Following organisations have supported The DAISY Consortium for Obi and Urakawa SDK: (List in alphabetic order )
