Yeah, but can't you take existing material and break it into meaningful pieces and mark them up? I think this type of job could be performed by anybody, given some simple procedure. Otherwise, tons of books will have to be rerecorded in a new DAISY format. Best, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:53 PM Subject: Re: What I did on my summer holidays. > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
