ReVoxer - the LibriVox Recorder Development Proj
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ReVoxer development project
ReVoxer is a software tool designed for recording human-read audio from text. The tool includes the functionality of audio software such as Audacity, with features tailored for text-to-audio recordings, including:
*text-scrolling which feeds text to the screen as the reader reads.
*text-audio synchronization allowing for text-string searches of audio.
Umut Topkara is looking for some help on the project (GPL of course). Post here if you are interested.
project homepage:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/utopkara/ReVoxer.html
historical threads:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=945
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=660
ReVoxer is a software tool designed for recording human-read audio from text. The tool includes the functionality of audio software such as Audacity, with features tailored for text-to-audio recordings, including:
*text-scrolling which feeds text to the screen as the reader reads.
*text-audio synchronization allowing for text-string searches of audio.
Umut Topkara is looking for some help on the project (GPL of course). Post here if you are interested.
project homepage:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/utopkara/ReVoxer.html
historical threads:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=945
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=660
All kinds of help are welcome from LibriVox users.
You can contribute with:
* sharing your experience with your current recording/listening program
* adding to/refining design of ReVoxer
* writing code
* creating a webpage design
* designing a logo
You can contribute with:
* sharing your experience with your current recording/listening program
* adding to/refining design of ReVoxer
* writing code
* creating a webpage design
* designing a logo
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hey tshirt - we'll likely have to go outside the LV family to get actual coders, but i think you have plenty of guinnea pigs here to do the testing of alpha/beta versions...
as for the other things we might get some bites!
the main problem with audacity is: crashes!
as for the other things we might get some bites!
the main problem with audacity is: crashes!
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Okay, this is all pretty much over my head but I'm certainly willing to be a guinea pig and try this fancy new idea out when it is up and running. I use Audacity and it works pretty well for me. One thing I'd like, which I know someone else already mentioned in the original thread, is a bookmark feature. That way when I'm recording and I goof, I put a bookmark and then go back and re-read the section. That would make editing easier to pick out those goofs that need to be cut.
Annie Coleman Rothenberg
http://www.anniecoleman.com/
"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
http://www.anniecoleman.com/
"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
This is a good reason to target a standalone programhugh wrote:the main problem with audacity is: crashes!
rather than a plugin.
One nice other thing about audacity is that it's available
for many platforms. I think we should take this
one step further, and make ReVoxer run from a web
browser. This will not only make it available to many
platforms, but also make it easy to create text content
coupled with audio. The ultimate ReVoxer will be one
like the BBCode editor that I am using now to enter this
post.
Hi Annie,LibraryLady wrote:One thing I'd like, which I know someone else already mentioned in the original thread, is a bookmark feature. That way when I'm recording and I goof, I put a bookmark and then go back and re-read the section. That would make editing easier to pick out those goofs that need to be cut.
we were wondering whether your audio bookmarks correspond to
sentence boundaries, or paragraph boundaries, or somewhere else
in the text. could you give us some feedback about where you
usually put your bookmarks?
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oh so recording from a browser. that's a very cool idea - but it's going to be hard to get consistent audio quality: with network slowness etc. my internet cuts out occasionally. and one thing is certain when you are recording a text, your recording software crashing is so unbelieveably terrible.
have you seen;
www.podomatic.com
?
have you seen;
www.podomatic.com
?
Think of it as if the BBCode editor allowed you to save your workhugh wrote:oh so recording from a browser. that's a very cool idea - but it's going to be hard to get consistent audio quality: with network slowness etc. my internet cuts out occasionally.
on your own disk besides submitting over the internet. There are
many technical issues involved, but the general idea is having
the flexibility to move freely within the spectrum of options that lie
between saving everything on the disk and saving everything over
the network.
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Right now, my "bookmarks" consist of pausing for about ten seconds so that when I look at the sound file in Audacity, I see a blank spot and know that is where I need to edit. Usually these correspond with sentence boundaries. I goof something up, pause ten seconds, then start the sentence over. Does that help?tshirt wrote:Hi Annie,
we were wondering whether your audio bookmarks correspond to
sentence boundaries, or paragraph boundaries, or somewhere else
in the text. could you give us some feedback about where you
usually put your bookmarks?
Annie Coleman Rothenberg
http://www.anniecoleman.com/
"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
http://www.anniecoleman.com/
"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
Awesome! Does it save everything over the web?
answer= Yes
Interface is perfectly simple!
This is very close to what we should target. But we
need to have the ability to save everything to local
disk. People will probably would like to work on their
recordings before submitting them; and of course
there is the connection drop issue.
But definitely this is close to it.
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Yes, very helpful.LibraryLady wrote:Does that help?
As a hint: we were discussing with hugh about providing them book texts
such that every line will have one sentence. Once this is done we will use
sentences as atomic segments/chunks of recorded audio.
Another issue is macromedia flash.hugh wrote: www.podomatic.com
?
I am a bit concerned that flash is not that
portable. I think we could achieve the
same functionality with java.
Most probably because it saves everything over thehugh wrote:also: sound quality is crap.
internet, and has to use a brutal lossy compression.
This raises other questions to ask LibriVox volunteers
and listeners:
* What compression algorithm and settings (bitrate?) do
LibriVox volunteers use?
* Which ones are preferred by listeners? Does anybody
re-encode the audio?
Speex, mp3, ogg?
I assume that the largest possible bitrate is the most
appropriate for recording; since we could always
downgrade the quality of the audio afterwards.
However this might change if we extend the usage of ReVoxer
to other applications (forum posts in audio, podcasts,
manuals, cookbooks, etc); and the listener's choice in those
applications will determine the most appropriate audio
encoding.
FYI: we have a sourceforge project now
http://sourceforge.net/projects/revoxer/
and a new project page
http://revoxer.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/revoxer/
and a new project page
http://revoxer.sourceforge.net
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