From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl ([195.216.104.3] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16VJv8-0007ll-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:06:34 -0500 Received: from Cybertsar (ppp28.sylaba.poznan.pl [195.216.104.128]) by goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl (8.11.6/8.10.1) with SMTP id g0SM6UZ19490 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:06:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <006e01c1a848$07742b50$0100a8c0@Cybertsar> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: What I did on my summer holidays. Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:09:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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" To: 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@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@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >