BRAILLE RESOURCE & LITERACY CENTER

The BRL Center

Dedicated to the production of DAISY books and other materials which provide Enhanced Navigation, resulting in more efficient and more effective access to digital information, for the blind.

SCRIPTURES AND MANUALS

SCRIPTURES

These DAISY Scriptures with Enhanced Navigation, allow the user to easily locate and read any individual verse of scripture, using only a Victor Reader Stream or similar DAISY book device.

Click here for instructions and examples of how to navigate to the verse level using these DAISY Talking Books. Similar information is also available at the beginning of each DAISY book.

Church Manuals in DAISY format with Enhanced Navigation.

General Conference Archive

General Conference Talks with Recorded Audio, 1971 through 2015

Following are DAISY books with Enhanced Navigation, containing the recorded audio of the actual voices in mp3 format of the General Conference Talks. Each of these DAISY books covers 5 years and contains 10 General Conferences. After downloading, unzipping and copying to an SD card, these DAISY books will allow efficient navigation to any talk in any session of any conference, from the present extending back to 1971! Please refer to the navigation instructions at the beginning of each DAISY book.

General Conference Talks with Synthesized Speech, 1942 through 1970

These six DAISY books use synthesized speech generated by the administrators of allaboutmormons.com, using source text files from scriptures.byu.edu. The navigation marks in these DAISY books follow the same pattern as those containing the actual voice audio of the talks.

General Conference Talks in HTM Format, 1942 through 2014

Following are fifteen large HTML books containing the General Conference Talks from 1942 through 2014. The navigation marks follow the same pattern and each book covers a similar period as the DAISY books listed above. After downloading and unzipping, these books should be copied to the $VRText folder of the SD card when using a Victor Reader Stream. These files are also accessible and navigable using the web browser on your computer. In this format, you can easily search for a desired text string or copy and paste parts of the talk as you prepare lessons or talks.

Books and Manuals in HTM Format.

Navigation marks have been placed in the following HTM files to facilitate efficient reading and study of these materials. These files may be downloaded, unzipped, and copied into the "$VRText" folder of an SD card, for use with a VR Stream or similar device, and navigated with the various levels of headings as usual. Alternatively they may simply be opened in your web browser of your computer, and, provided you are running JAWS, you may navigate to Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 by simply pressing the number 1, 2, or 3 keys along the top of your keyboard. Please refer to the navigation instructions at the beginning of each book.

New January 2017!

** Alternative format for Scriptures and Manuals ** Three New Languages!

The following scriptures and manuals are DAISY books with Enhanced Navigation with full synthesized audio and full synchronized text. Word searches may be done in these files along with navigation by line, sentence, word, and character when accessing them in text mode.

English Downloads

SCRIPTURES

Manuals and Hymnbook

Spanish Downloads

Scriptures

Manuals and Hymnbook

French Downloads

Scriptures

Church Manuals in French in DAISY format with Enhanced Navigation

Portuguese Downloads

Scriptures

Church Manuals in Portuguese in DAISY format with Enhanced Navigation.

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We are continually producing DAISY books of important reference works, so check back often!