Welcome to my Illustrated Audio homepage!

This page is about a MIME encoded format called Illustrated Audio. It allows you to send slide shows with sound via the Web! Right now, it is only available on Unix with Xwindows, though the developers are looking for people to do ports to the Mac and IBM. People with Linux and Xwindows should be able to compile the source code with little difficulty.

Here is a test file (57.3 Kb) to see if you already have it installed at your site. You should see an image of a logo appear, along with another window showing text, and the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) station identification music in the background.

IA was developed by researchers at CRC. They're cool people who helped me a lot in installing this at my site. Unfortunately, their server is a bit slow, so you might want to get the latest version (0.3) of their compressed source code from me. You can get either the the GNUzip version (84.5 Kb) or the *.Z compressed version (117.9 Kb). Note: bigger does not mean better, in this case.

If you've got it installed already, here are: some cool Illustrated Audio files I made using sound and images from Japanese anime.

1. Tenchi Muyo (4.2 Mb). There is also a smaller version (1.9 Mb) for those who have a slow download.
2. Kimagure Orange Road (850 Kb). This one has no images, but has text subtitles of the lyrics.
3. Kimagure Orange Road (870 kb). This is the same as the above, but with the Japanese Hiragana in another window.
4. Message (2.2 Mb). Another subtitled song, from the anime, Video Girl Ai.
5. Ano Hini (2.0 Mb). The closing song to Video Girl Ai.

Rae Yip (ryip@cco.caltech.edu)