RE: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks

I was in WAI Coordination call on Wednesday afternoon. Judy Brewer asked me to provide an update on where we are in Publishing. I received a flood of questions about sync media and accessible audiobooks. There is a bit of misunderstanding about the difference between EPUB and Audiobooks (which I hope I clarified). I think that there would be real interest from Judy and WAI in working on this. Let’s add to the next SC agenda, because there are a host of issues that will come along with this (including why we aren’t using TTML etc.)

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
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From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
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Subject: Fwd: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks

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.

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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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


Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
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tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>


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