The DaisyDuck project
Welcome on the DaisyDuck project website, a free software for playing digital audio books (Daisy 2.02).
The goal of this project is to provide the playback of online books
and the playback of local books (reachable directly on a physical
media). The interface is simplified for a quick handling, even for
people with an handicap like partially sighted persons.
Intuitive keyboard shortcuts provide an easy way in order to access
the functionalities of the application and in order to navigate in the
books (by chapter and by paragraph). DaisyDuck saves automatically the
position where the playback of a book was interrupted. Then, when this
book is reloaded, the start of the playback begins on the last
position, without any action of the auditor.
News
The current release of DaisyDuck is 1.0.3.
Licenses
These programs are free softwares - you can redistribute them and/or
modify them under the terms of their own licenses. The "GNU General
Public License" (GNU/GPL) version 3+ and the "GNU Lesser General
Public License" (GNU/LGPL) version 2.1+.
They are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the licenses for more details.
Target systems
This software is available for the GNU/Linux and Windows platforms. No version is currently envisaged for the Mac OS X systems. An installer is provided with the Windows version. About GNU/Linux, packages for Debian are available. See the section "Download" of this site.
Project origins
This project was created by a member of the GeeXboX team (which is the reason why the project is hosted on the GeeXboX server), for his "non-military national service (fr)"; and in particular for the auditors of the "Bibliothèque Sonore Romande (fr)" in Lausanne. The online books playback was one of the main goals for this work. Nevertheless the application can be used for playing Daisy 2.02 in their common format.
