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Old 09-20-2013, 01:12 PM   #1
karyan
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Editor for EPUB w/SMIL on Windows?

I would like to create EPUBs with SMIL for media overlay - but on a Windows platform. For readers, I have used both AZARDI and Readium's Chrome add-on to test existing samples, but have not found an editor that I can use to create new works.

I wish I could use SIGIL, but I can't seem to produce an EPUB that either reader recognizes as having audio. My next attempt will be with Tobi (from DAISY consortium), but before diving in I was hoping that someone could tell me that this is even possible and I'm not wasting even more time.

Thanks.

UPDATE: I did play around with Tobi a bit. On the plus side, it's a lot easier for syncing the audio to text than manually writing the SMIL file using Audacity to find the start/stop points. The negative is that the xhtml files needs to be pretty much perfect before starting this step - they can't be edited in Tobi (from what I can tell). The resulting EPUB worked (mostly, except if I tried to jump around within a chapter the audio-to-text goes out of sync by a few seconds) in Readium/Chrome, but doesn't work in AZARDI.

Last edited by karyan; 09-20-2013 at 05:45 PM. Reason: Update
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