Thread: Audio book to ebook
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Old 05-20-2011, 08:07 PM   #8
tomsem
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Include me in that group. I'd really love to be able to take advantage of audio books, but I just space out within minutes. And I can't figure out exactly where I went brain-dead to find my place again.
I've gotten a little better over time with this with practice. But navigation is a huge problem with audiobooks: no text search, generic chapter headings (when there's a UI). One of the ePub 3.0 specs has to do with synchronizing text and audio, so we might see something in a year or two:

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EPUB Media Overlays 3.0 [MediaOverlays30], which defines a format and a processing model for synchronization of text and audio.
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