Literacy Bridge
The Talking Book Project relies on audio content for success. While Literacy Bridge believes that audio content is best left to the experts and citizens who speak the local languages and understand the local problems, facilitating the creation and distribution of that content is just as critical as designing the platform on which it runs. This philosophy led to the following actions:
- Every device includes a microphone, so that every user can potentially become a content creator.
- Audio content includes a control track that uses the same format and has most of the same flexibility as the system interface described above. Audio content can include embedded hyperlinks from one segment of content to the next. Content-programmable buttons allow interactive and entertaining applications – a universally important driver of user adoption.
- For people who would like to develop interactive audio content but prefer to avoid declarative programming, Literacy Bridge is developing a Windows application with a graphical user interface for creating and editing control track files. Users of this application will include university students, employees of non-profit organizations, and district officers of the ministries of health, education, or agriculture.
- Content that can be useful to multiple regions of the world will be hosted on a web site to allow local governmental and non-governmental organizations to select and download the recordings that they believe will be useful for their regions and domains.