For 71 years, the Library of Congress has served as the nation's guardian angel of literacy, ensuring the blind and reading-disabled free access to millions of talking books and magazines.

Strictly speaking, a digital talking book is a multimedia representation of a print publication that provides access to the text through digitally recorded human voice or synthetic text-to-speech ...

Digital talking books could revolutionize the way individuals who are blind or print-disabled enjoy texts. Will these books go mainstream? One group is working to see that happens. By Kendra Mayfield.

Because this version of gh PLAYER™ supports PowerBraille 80, PowerBraille 65 and Braille Star 80 refreshable Braille displays, users can read digital talking books by following along with Braille in ...

Many of the resources referenced are no longer available, and links to them have been removed. Provide accessible multimedia in Digital Talking Books (DTBs).Strictly speaking, a digital talking book ...

“Right now we use plain old cassettes for our talking books program, which was established in 1931," Jordan said Thursday. “But we’re expecting to get 20,000 new digital books in by 2008." ...

‘Talking Book’ Program Faces New Roadblock By John McArdle. Posted May 2, 2007 at 6:29pm. Library of Congress ...

The Kentucky Talking Book Library in the Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) is replacing its 30-year-old reel-to-reel taping system with the improved sound and clarity of a digital ...

WASHINGTON (AP _ It will be a talking book that even looks like a book, although most of its users will never see it. Instead of a cassette tape, it will have no moving parts but will read a ...