Hadley Launches Digital Talking Book Courses

Hadley is now offering many of its courses in DAISY Digital Talking Book (DTB) format, available for download from the Hadley Web site. These courses are also available on removable media, such as USB flash drives and NLS cartridges.

Hadley is offering a dozen courses in DAISY Digital Talking Book (DTB) format:

Media Codes:
B = braille
C = cassette
D = download
DTB = audio (real voice) Digital Talking Book, mailed on a standard USB plug-and-play device
DTB-DL = audio (real voice) Digital Talking Book, downloadable from web
LP = large print
P = regular print
OL = online

Business Writing
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL, OL

Business Fundamentals
Media: B, LP, DTB, DTB-DL, OL

Business Communications
Media: C, DTB or DTB-DL

Chess for Beginners
Media: B, C, DTB, DTB-DL

Finding Employment
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

Punctuation
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

Container Gardening
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL, OL

Guide Dogs
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

U.S. History: Discovery to Jacksonian Era
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

Typing and Keyboarding
Media: B, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

Leadership and Management 1 (Study Guide is online only.)
(Special Entrance Permission Required)
Media: B, LP, DTB

Literature: Fiction
Media: B, C, LP, DTB, DTB-DL

DAISY DTB format enables a student to navigate audio content in a manner comparable to how a print book would be used. For example, students can navigate the course by lessons and sections, or use a table of contents, as opposed to relying on tone indexing of audiocassettes. All Hadley DTBs are Real Voice recordings in MP3 DTB format. A DTB device or PC DTB software is required (it will not work with screen readers).

Before enrolling in one of our digital talking book courses, you will need to have a hardware digital talking book player or a software program capable of playing a digital audio book. Hadley DTB courses are tested with the HumanWare VictorReader Stream hardware and APH BookWizard Reader software players, as well as the NLS Talking Book Player. For additional DTB resources and information about software and hardware players, please visit www.daisy.org.

Once you obtain a player, you can go to www.hadley.edu/dtb and download the small sample digital talking book. If your player can play this book, you should be able to play our digital talking book courses. If you wish to enroll in one of our digital talking courses, you may contact Student Services at Student_Services@hadley.edu, by calling 800-526-9909 or via OASIS.

You will notice that many courses have the new media codes of DTB and DTB-DL. DTB means audio Digital Talking Book, and these courses are mailed to the student on an NLS cartridge or via standard USB thumb drive. DTB-DL is an audio Digital Talking Book Download. The course is available for computer users to simply download from www.hadley.edu.