tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83325566643656087362011-04-22T14:55:01.415+12:00A collaborative project between the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind and the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre to increase access to historic New Zealand texts.Moira Cluniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15394224492659328110noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8332556664365608736.post-8606215576480153112008-06-24T14:03:00.000+12:002008-07-04T14:06:34.713+12:00<p>The Reading Heritage Through Sound project is a collaboration between <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.rnzfb.org.nz/">RNZFB</a></span> and the <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.nzetc.org/">New Zealand Electronic Text Centre</a></span> to increase access to historic New Zealand texts.</p> <p>The project will use NZETC's digitised texts as the basis for Digital Talking Books in <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.daisy.org/">DAISY</a></span> format. Some of these titles will use historic narrations from RNZFB's library, while others will use synthetic speech.</p> <p>Reading Heritage Through Sound is supported by the <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/Funding/The-Community-Partnership-Fund/"> Community Partnership Fund</a></span>.</p><p>This blog will be used to share the latest project news, including announcements about new books as they become available, software development and links to related projects.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8332556664365608736-860621557648015311?l=readingheritage.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moira Cluniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15394224492659328110noreply@blogger.com0