SAMI

SAMI (Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e. not for broadcast purposes.

SAMI documents are text, and can be written in any text editor, although there are special utilities available to create SAMI documents. They use .smi or .sami file extensions. The common use of .smi for SAMI files creates a file extension collision with SMIL files.

Each SAMI document may contain more than one language.

SAMI is the predominant caption file format in South Korea.

Use of HTML Tags and CSS

HTML and CSS may be used to format text in SAMI documents. The following HTML tags are valid in SAMI:

Media Players that Support SAMI

ALShow
BSplayer
Chameleo
GOM Player
MPlayer
Perian
The KMPlayer
VLC Media Player
Windows Media Player
Xine
XBMC

SAMI Authoring Tools

[http://maven3d.com/en/ Audio WASP]
[http://www.hisoftware.com/hmcc/ Hi-Caption]
[http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ MAGpie]
[http://www.sysmedia.com/ WinCAPS by SysMedia]

Translation

The word "SAMI" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Korean.

Translation in German: Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange.