Re: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks

> On 7 May 2020, at 09:44, Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Why not simply have  the W3c Publishing WG handling Sync Narration in the 6 coming months? Publishing is not only pure Audiobook and the EPUB WG will focus on the core of the EPUB spec before discussing Media Overlays; also, both WG have the same people involved. 

The WG can, clearly, publish that specification as a W3C WG Note. And yes, this may be a good thing to do anyway. However, it is not possible to publish it as a Recommendation; let alone the fact that it is not clearly in the WG's charter, there are, as far as I remember, some incompressible timing in the process for IPR reasons, and those are longer (cca 6 months) than the time the WG has. Ie, if we'd go down the formal standardization path, we cannot avoid having a suitable chartering process.

> 
> Some news: one of our members, the National Library of the Netherlands, has started studying the Audiobook format and how it could "replace" the Daisy 2.02 format if it was featuring "improved navigation" and "timed transcript"; they would also like a better explanation of the difference between EPUB Media Overlays and Audiobooks with Sync Narration. 
> 
> Daniel Weck and I are starting to have a deeper discussion on these points with their team, and we should be able to send to this group a clarified explanation of these requirements next week.  

That is really interesting! Thanks for sharing this.

Ivan

> 
> Cordialement, 
> 
> Laurent Le Meur
> CTO EDRLab
> 
>> Le 7 mai 2020 à 09:13, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org <mailto:ivan@w3.org>> a écrit :
>> 
>> As I said in my comment to the working group, this is brilliant. We should really try to re-use this video as part of our overall outreach.
>> 
>> However… I think there may be more and maybe it is worth discussing it a bit. So far we have concentrated on the future of EPUB 3 in the form of a WG, and we also plan to properly finish the work on Audiobooks in the Publishing Working Group in form of a Rec. What we have not discussed yet is what should happen with the work in the CG Marisa is chairing and, more specifically, with the Synchronized Narration work. Should we think/plan to seriously consider a separate Working Group to bring that forward? If so, which other technical work at W3C should that be paired with? After all, this is clearly not only relevant to publishing audiobooks. 
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>> There are a number of non-trivial issues to consider, mostly about the synchronization [sic!] of this work with other WG-s at the W3C, otherwise the messaging can go wrong. But we should really consider driving this to the mainstream.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
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>>> Subject: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks
>>> Date: 7 May 2020 at 02:52:37 GMT+2
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>>> Hi PWG,
>>>  
>>> Wendy Reid and Marisa DeMeglio prepared a video about Audiobooks [1], presented by Booknet Canada in lieu of Techforum, which was cancelled. In addition to presenting a great overview of the Audiobooks spec, they demo 3 versions of audiobooks, including one implementation with Sync Media!
>>>  
>>> Thanks Wendy and Marisa!
>>>  
>>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVcVUSqtOY&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVcVUSqtOY&feature=youtu.be>
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>>> Tzviya Siegman
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