using SMIL to highlight text as it is spoken

[Steffen Schilke]

Hallo

Should Daisy and SMIL not be integrated with / in ePub3 for Accessibility
reasons?

Regards

sws
Am 12.02.2016 17:56 schrieb "Ryan Vernon" <rvernon at langara.ca>:

> Hi John,
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> SMIL is used with DAISY ebooks. DAISY (Digital Accessible Information
> System) is a format that can combine text and synthesised speech. DAISY
> books can be played on a computer using specialized software, on portable
> DAISY players, or on mobile devices using various apps.  The DAISY
> consortium maintains a list of software that can be used with the DAISY
> format <http://www.daisy.org/tools/splayback>, and the consortium is
> probably a good place to gather some more information.
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> Good luck,
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> Ryan
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> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] using SMIL to highlight text as it is spoken
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> Hi,
>
>
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> We have recently received an enquiry from someone who is seeking a
> portable device that uses a speech synthesizer to vocalize text as it
> highlights the text on a small screen. I know Kurzweil 3000 can do this on
> a laptop, but he is looking for something that is much more portable. There
> is a markup language called SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration
> Language) which enables developers to co-ordinate spoken word with printed
> text.
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> Has a portable device using this or any other technology ever been
> developed?
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> I would appreciate any advice.
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> Regards
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> John
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