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Text to Speech (TTS).
This is a means of converting normal language text into synthetic
speech to give access to information that may otherwise not be
accessible.
Title (DAISY definition).
The title page presents the full title of the book, the name of the
author, editor or translator and the name and location of the
publishing house. If the book is a new edition of a work previously
published, the number of the edition may also appear on the title
page following the title. Additional items such as publishing year and
colophon sometimes appear on the title page.
USB.
Universal Serial Bus. This is a PC interface specification for
connecting peripheral equipment. It is intended to communalize such
peripherals as a mouse, keyboards, printers, modems and speakers,
which had been separate in the past.
Wave file.
This is a digitized sound file format for Microsoft Windows, which has
".WAV" as the filename extension. Most pre-mastering software will
extract CD (CD-audio) tracks and write them to the hard disk as a
Wave file. Always ensure that you have enough space on your hard
drive when extracting songs from a CD to Wave files. For example, a
4 minutes song, when written as a Wave file, takes about 40-50 MB.
This is a digital conversion, and when done properly, will result in a
perfect copy of the original song or audio track. Wave files can have
various qualities of sound depending on how they are created or
saved, but the most common is 44.1kHz, 16-Bit, stereo. This is
equivalent to audio tracks on Music CD.
