Kolibre Vadelma 1.1

Kolibre Vadelma is an embedded Linux digital talking book player for the Raspberry Pi platform. It uses open source software, such as the Kolibre libraries for reading Daisy books from offline sources or connecting to Daisy Online-services.

Kolibre Vadelma supports the established Daisy 2.02-standard and the basic functions in the DAISY Online Delivery protocol.

Changelog v1.1

• Kernel updated to 3.12.26
• Firmware updated (support for RaspberryPi B+)
• Kolibre libraries updated
  • Support for logging to SD-card
  • Support for multiple Daisy Online-services
  • Support for offline playback
  • Support for detection of external storage media

Known issues v1.1

• Background noise from audio output, RaspberryPi B+ only
• Daisy books with encoding windows-1252 do not work

Instructions on how to build, run and configure the player are available in the wiki https://github.com/kolibre/setup-scripts/wiki

Kolibre Vadelma 1.0

Kolibre Vadelma is an embedded Linux digital talking book player for the Raspberry Pi platform. It uses open source software, such as the Kolibre libraries for connecting to Daisy Online services and reading Daisy books.

Kolibre Vadelma supports the established Daisy 2.02-standard and the basic functions in the DAISY Online Delivery protocol.

Features:

• Daisy Online compatible client with support for the required operations
• Pure streaming of online content
• Voice guided narration
• Keyboard navigation
• Voice manipulation (speed, volume)
• Bookmark management and continuation from last position

Instructions on how to build, run and configure the player are available in the wiki https://github.com/kolibre/setup-scripts/wiki