About AMIS 3.0

Overview

About

  • Open source DAISY player
  • Free of charge
  • Actively developed and supported
  • Translations available for dozens of languages

Books supported

  • DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO 2005
  • full text + full audio
  • TOC + audio
  • text-only

Features

  • Previous/Next phrase
  • Previous/Next page
  • Previous/Next section
  • Go to page

Use the items in the sidebar to browse the structure of a book.

  • Hierarchical view of sections
  • List of pages
  • Lists for each special type of item in the book

Bookmarking

  • Add bookmark (named automatically based on what you are bookmarking)
  • Go to bookmark
  • Bookmarks for a particular book automatically load when you open that book

Open a book

  • Open a recently-read book
  • Automatically open your last-read book on startup
  • Open a book from the command line
  • Open the contents of a CD-ROM containing a single book or containing multiple books
  • Open a book from your local file system
  • Open a book from a remote URL
  • Quickly re-open large books due to AMIS' data caching feature

Control playback

  • Speed-up audio playback
  • Play and pause the book

Find out more

  • See publication summary information for the book
  • Find out basic information about AMIS
  • Get help in DAISY format
  • Get a list of keyboard shortcuts in DAISY format

User interface features

  • Use basic or default view mode
  • Show/hide the navigation sidebar
  • Move the navigation sidebar around the screen
  • Change the style of the page
  • Make the font bigger
  • Adjust highlight colors and change the sidebar font through the Text Style dialog

System Requirements

  • Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 2000
  • DirectX 9
  • SAPI 5.1
  • Internet Explorer 7 or higher
  • 50 MB of disk space