Abstract: A method and apparatus for converting a Daisy format digital talking book file into a conventional digital streaming media file. The method includes accessing administrative information in a Daisy file, identifying a start and end point for a specific audio portion of the digital talking book, parsing the specific audio portion from the Daisy file, creating a new audio file using the parsed audio portion, adding a header to the new audio file, and saving the new audio file.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing audio data to text data in which the text is manually or automatically divided into an arbitrary number of sections and a text section is selected for display and presented to a narrator for audio input. A human narrator reads the displayed selected section of text into a computer to form an audio data portion for the selected section that is linked to the text by entering synchronization marks to the computer. The sections of text may be selected for reading and audio input in any order and by any number of narrators. Each recorded audio portion is converted to an audio data file and the audio data files are re-sequenced to conform to the original order of the text based on a playback control file. A plurality of narrators may contribute audio data from separate workstations of a network, or workstations which are connected to a central server over a communications network, such as the Internet.