I'm finding it very hard to get a handle on the feedback from this thread. Although I suspect that may be a problem on my side.
Can we take the text-to-speech engine and voice out of the discussion please as that's a technical and license issue. It *will* improve over time and suggestions on that topic can be directed to [email protected]. Discussions on whether to include text-to-speech synopsis can and should be sent to the mail list. With that all said can someone please tell me what is considered "to long" ? I include the calculations below but the the length before the episode proper is 1 minute 22.47 seconds for those served from hackerpublicradio.org and 1 minute 16.44 seconds for those served from archive.org. That's an increase of 43.42 and 37.39 seconds respectively. For your information the outro is 1 minute. If we take out the date and the contact information, then the synopsis is reduced to 16.54 seconds (in this case), which reduces the total to 1 minute 13.23 seconds and 1 minute 7.19 seconds. Then if we move the sponsor mention to the end of the show, as it was before, it reduces to 55.59 seconds. After that we could (probably - no idea how to do it automatically) reduce it to 39.05 seconds by having the synopsis overlay the intro music. However that means that every show will get the intro added by the server. That could be a problem for some hosts as many like to add it themselves. On the other hand it would free you to include (or not) any theme music you desire, even building your own "brand". -- Regards, Ken Fallon http://kenfallon.com http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 $ wget --quiet http://hackerpublicradio.org/say.php?id=1648 -O - | grep 'HPR_summary: ' | sed 's/HPR_summary: //' | espeak -w /tmp/x.wav; ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:25.78, bitrate: 352 kb/s $ ffprobe -i intro.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:39.05, bitrate: 700 kb/s $ ffprobe -i sponsor-anhonesthost.com-hpr15.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:17.64, bitrate: 827 kb/s $ ffprobe -i sponsor-archive.org.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:11.60, bitrate: 815 kb/s $ ffprobe -i outro.flac 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:01:00.87, bitrate: 726 kb/s $ echo "It's Wednesday 26th of November 2014. This is H P R episode 1648 entitled \"Bash parameter manipulation\" and is part of the series \"Bash Scripting\". It is hosted by Dave Morriss and is about 41 minutes long. Feedback can be sent to dave dot morriss at gmail dot com or by leaving a comment on this episode. The summary is : \"A summary and aide memoire of Bash parameter expansion methods\"" | espeak -w /tmp/x.wav; ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:25.78, bitrate: 352 kb/s $ echo "This is H P R episode 1648 entitled \"Bash parameter manipulation\" and is part of the series \"Bash Scripting\". It is hosted by Dave Morriss and is about 41 minutes long. The summary is : \"A summary and aide memoire of Bash parameter expansion methods\"" | espeak -w /tmp/x.wav; ffprobe -i /tmp/x.wav 2>&1 | grep Duration Duration: 00:00:16.54, bitrate: 352 kb/s ---------------------------------- AnHonest Host 25.78 Current synopsis 39.05 intro 17.64 sponsor AnHonest Host 82.47 Total Archive.org 25.78 Current synopsis 39.05 intro 11.6 sponsor Archive.org 76.43 Total ---------------------------------- AnHonest Host 16.54 synopsis 39.05 intro 17.64 sponsor AnHonest Host 73.23 Total Archive.org 16.54 synopsis 39.05 intro 11.6 sponsor Archive.org 67.19 Total ---------------------------------- AnHonest Host 16.54 synopsis 39.05 intro 0 sponsor AnHonest Host 55.59 Total Archive.org 16.54 synopsis 39.05 intro 0 sponsor 55.59 Total ---------------------------------- AnHonest Host 0 synopsis 39.05 Intro + Current synopsis 0 sponsor AnHonest Host 39.05 Total Archive.org 0 synopsis 39.05 Intro + Current synopsis 0 sponsor Archive.org 39.05 Total ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
