Producing DTB From Audio Tapes

This paper presents a framework for the conversion of audiotape spoken books to full featured digital talking books. It is developed within the context of the IPSOM project. The introduction of search, cross-referencing and annotation mechanisms, with multimedia and trough multimodal capabilities are considered. Different formats and standards are taken into consideration, as well as different interaction alternatives. The resulting digital talking books aim the visually impaired community, but also situated applications and studies of cognitive aspects. The framework is part of a larger setting enabling the authoring, by reuse of and enrichment of multimedia units, of digital multimedia and multimodal documents.