Can you? Of course you can. Point of fact is the agencies won't be doing much of this, because it's a very lot of work--nmuch more work than recording from scratch. On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Victor Tsaran wrote: > 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 at afb.net> > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
