There is a profound difference between recording digitally and the DAISY standard. If you only record, from beginning to end, you're functionally no different than the analog cassette. Instead, DAISY imposes hierarchical structure onto the recording, using the SMIL protocol. That way, you can "rewind" and "fast forward" to something meaningful, because it's structural, unlike today's media which only "rewind" or "fast forward" some number of inches of tape irrespective of the actual intellectual contents. On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > Don't know about elsewhere, but I know that some agencies here in Australia > have been recording their masters digitally for some time now. > > Geoff. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
