Commercial Opportunities in Accessible Publishing and

ePub

Innovation in Publishing Congress23 april 2015

Staffan Meijstaffan.meij@readspeaker.com

Mike van Thielmike.vanthiel@readspeaker.com

Delivering speech technology that allows users to access information

Anywhere and Anytime

Barrier Free (Click & Listen)

Applicable on all possible content (online and offline)

Customizable (by client and by end-user)

Universal Design for All

Speech as a Service (SaaS)

ReadSpeaker Vision

2

It is about supporting the reading / learning style of the individual user

ReadingVideosListeningResearchingDiscussingExercisingAssessingOn-the-go

HTML(5)PDFsDatabasesAppsGamesOn-lineOff-lineBlended

Enhanced Learning

ReadSpeakerEnterprise

ReadSpeakerDocReader

ReadSpeakerNarrator

ReadSpeaker Customised

solutions

ReadSpeakerDaisy

Generator

ReadSpeakerTextAid

Listen to HTML

Listen to online

DocumentsListen to

epub3 off-line

Listen: special needs

personal reading support

Embedded in Publisher

solutions

ReadSpeaker Narrator

How does it work?

EXTRACTION

Content

Structure

Images

ACSS

Dict

CSS

TTS

Processing

Profile/template

Tags

Production and Download EPUB/DAISY

The production is completed and the end result can be downloaded and used.

ReadSpeaker Narrator: features

Web based SaaS (cloud) solution (works from anywhere) Simple and accessible User Interface Multiple input formats supported

Plain HTML, HTML from MS Word, DTBook XML, PDF, RTF Multiple DTB and e-Text output formats

DAISY 2.02 formats, EPUB3, DAISY Text, DTBook XML PDF text extraction and auto-tagging algorithms “Production profiles”

Input- and output formats CSS, ACSS Pronunciation dictionaries TTS voices settings

Evolution versus Revolution:

Evolution: “Take existing publications and re-work / convert / transform into new formats (ePub, HTML5)”

Revolution: “Create new publications from the ground up to allow for a totally new experience (in reading / learning / listening)”

Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub

Who owns the eyeballs:

“A publisher aims to provide his own full service platform that gives the user a uniform experience of all the content / applications of that publisher”

“The user uses one environment to consume all content / applications, without a direct link / visibility / connection to an individual publisher”

Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub

First mover (dis)advantage:

“There is not enough content that is already available to allow for larger investments in on/offline reading appplications / technologies / alternatives”

“There are not enough generic reading applications /devices/ players to justify investing in conversion of content to latest technology / possibilities / functionalities”

Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub

On-line or Off-line:

“User will always want to have their books on their device”

“Connectivity is no issue any more; online models are the future”

Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub

Books or On-Demand:

“Pay for what you read; read what you want; subscription models”

“The container will remain the book; it is about selling digital books”

Commercial opportunities in publishing innovations and ePub