On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:39 AM, JT Moree wrote: > A wiki is text but no one reading the text knows which author write > which words. one sentence may have 20 authors because it has been > edited so much.
True, unless you want to spend time looking through the history. > If audio were recorded instead of text you would need 20 recordings? > and not just for one sentence but the whole paragraph at least. this > makes editing impossible. Impossible is a bit extreme. Impractical may be a bit more accurate. I'm thinking that maybe a different model is needed. As you mentioned wiki is text where the basic unit is the character. Audio doesn't have a basic character-type unit. At one extreme the smallest audio unit is the time-slice, but that's like describing a character in terms of pixels. At the other extreme, an audio unit is the entire recording, which could be a sentence, paragraph, section, or entire book. So what audio needs is a basic unit in order to make editing practical, an audio character. Or maybe it doesn't and people in the audio world have already solved the problem of editing audio text some other way. > Perhaps text to speech software applied to a wiki site would be > more effective for the stated purpose. Perhaps. Dunno, yet. But my experience with speech software has been less than optimal. From these and other comments on this thread, two thoughts do come to mind. One is that the text and audio versions of a wiki should match one-to-one: make a change in the wiki and the corresponding change in the audio occurs. I think the only practical way to do this would be via some automated method such as speech software, which you mention. The other thought is that the text and audio versions should be related but not necessarily one-to-one, much like the adaptation of a book for a play or movie. The movie and play are related to but not the same as the book (e.g. Harry Potter). So there could be a text wiki and an audio wiki of the same subject, but they will differ to some degree in content. Just exploring the Free-Content space. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
