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Advanced Information Technology

AV Books

This is a unique technology, sometimes called a digital talking book. The copy of a book is read to the users. The copy can also include videos that enhance the text. The digital document is dynamic in that more and different videos can be added to the original document as they become available, as can reviews of the original text, among other features. For deaf people, signing by avatars is common.

Since the document is in MP3 format, it can be transferred to an Ipod or a cell phone in its entirety or excerpts.

Suppose the digital talking document is a textbook, used in college or graduate school. The user can download excerpts of it to his or her cell phone or Ipod, as one might wish to when taking exams. Additionally, the student can add supplementary material from other sources, personalizing and customizing the original document as one sees fit.

The inventors of this technology have adopted it to be suitable for corporations’ Annual Reports. Not only will the document walk the shareholder through the Annual Report’s various sections, it will allow the CEO’s periodic videotaped remarks to be incorporated as well as various quarterly Presentations that might be made to Wall Street analysts.

GOAL: To have books and other publications accessible to disabled individuals. The Foundation regards this technology as useful in education as well as having environmental benefits because it is an alternative to traditional printing.