Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic® offers members unprecedented audiobook navigation with RFB&D's AudioPlus digitally recorded textbooks on CD, allowing students to access the content as if it were a printed book. Special playback devices and software enable users to jump to specific pages, preview chapters, and place bookmarks.
AudioPlus books on CD offer:
- Instant access to content: Digital audio technology enables you to start the book at any given point. For example, you will be able to go directly to a page or move from chapter to chapter at the press of a button.
- Better audio quality: Digital audio produces recordings with significantly less noise than analog (e.g., "tape hiss"). Also, unlike analog recordings, the copies sound exactly the same as the original recording - every time!
- Convenience: Digitally recorded textbooks can be stored on CDs, which can each hold more than 40 hours of recorded material.
- Variable speed control and bookmarking capabilities
RFB&D's AudioPlus books were developed in cooperation with two standard-setting organizations: an international group known as the DAISY Consortium (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization).
RFB&D's AudioPlus CDs can be accessed either on playback devices that have been programmed to accept the CDs or on specialized software. RFB&D offers, for nonprofit sale, a number of playback options for use when listening to RFB&D's AudioPlus digitally recorded textbooks on CD. You may choose portable or desktop CD-ROM players specially equipped to play RFB&D's books, or you can use a standard multimedia computer equipped with a CD-ROM drive and specialized software. Visit RFB&D's website at http://www.rfbd.org for updates on playback option availability and costs.