I have released a perl venison of xls2ssml. http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/xls2ssml/
This program will convert a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file into an SSML file suitible to be made into a Daisy "book" using dtbmaker or sent to any SSML enabled tts system. it required the linux program xlhtml. See teh readme file. When made into a Daisy book each sheet in the original file is treated as a h1 heading in daisy each row and cell are phases. Each table (sheet) row and cell are announced in a low voice with the contents of the cell spoken at normal volume. It speaks it prompts in English right now but I will fix that. The MacOSX version coming in a few days will not require xlhtml program and will have a full user interface. Hope someone find this useful. Greg Kearney
