odt2daisy

Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release.

The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking books.

I recommend this extension for everybody who wants to create DAISY books. Binaries and source files are available on sourceforge, the license is LGPL 3.

If you never heard of DAISY before, you might want to look at the screen casts which will show you how it works.
Announcement: GullFOSS

General Information
Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY 3 format, including support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML standard.

DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people.
The odt2daisy project is supported with the financial contribution of the European Commission in the context of the AEGIS project
- open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards.

Partners involved in ODF-related work in AEGIS include
SUN Microsystems and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Website: http://odt2daisy.sourceforge.net/