Analog To Digital. The process of converting an analog audio signal, usually recorded on magnetic tape, into a digital representation for use within a computer. An analog recording may have structure [..]

The Accessible Books Consortium aims to increase the number of books worldwide in accessible formats and to make them available to people who are blind, have low vision or are otherwise print disabled [..]

An open source SMIL player created by CWI in the Netherlands. As of version 3.0, AMIS embeds Ambulant internally and uses it to play SMIL documents.

AMIS is an acronym for Adaptive Multimedia Information System. It is a free, open source software for playing DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3-2005 books. Runs on Windows. It is composed of modules, each writte [..]

application programming interface

Either a program that does something (formats, sorts, imports, etc.) with XML or a set of markup tags created with XML. HTML, for example, is an application of SGML, defined with an SGML DTD.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc20.

A source of additional information about an element. Attribute values may be fixed in the DTD or listed as namevalue pairs in the start tag of an element.

Clipping occurs when an audio device tries to output a signal whose amplitude is greater than its maximum value, as a result it provides this maximum value as output, distorting waveform at upper end.

Refers to a DAISY book that contains the complete book as synchronized audio, plus a table of contents (which could include page numbers, footnote lists, etc). This term does not refer to a specific v [..]