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.

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.

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.

Process of increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an entire audio signal so that the resulting peak amplitude reaches the desired value.

A recording of a human voice reading or synthetic speech rendering of a book.

A data object that transmits the content decryption keys and rights expression for a single book to a reading system. The content decryption keys are secured within the authorization object by encrypt [..]

Describes the number of bits used to store information about each sample during analog to digital conversion. More depth = better quality. Typical values used for audio signals are 8 bit, 16 bit and 2 [..]

An object-oriented programming language featuring a combination of high-level and low-level language features. Can be used on nearly every existing platform. However, the development and maintenance c [..]

An element directly nested inside another element. In <FIRST><SECOND></FIRST>, the SECOND element is the child element of FIRST element.