Apple adds Read Aloud capability to iBooks 1.3 — from pigsgourdsandwikis.com by Liz Castro
Excerpt:
One of the very interesting new features that Apple has added to iBooks 1.3 is support for Media Overlays as specified in the EPUB3 spec. According to Lawrence Furnival, it works with Fixed Layout EPUBs using SMIL files that link the audio to the text, using a timeline and CSS to highlight particular words as they are spoken. It’s pretty exciting.
From DSC:
One of the first books I picked up years ago — re: HTML at the time — was from Elizabeth Castro. I learned a ton from her. Thanks Liz!
Also, I was excited to find her blog as I would like to see our Teaching & Learning Digital Studio come alongside faculty members to help them create their own “digital textbooks”.