Audio bibles are generally <1Gb, which may prevent collecting all known versions into a portable media device, but the size does not prevent keeping a Bible in an Iphone or pretty much any player you pay more than 10 bucks for. I've been loading whole audio bibles into my phones for about 3-4 years now. (well I loaded an audio bible as MP3 into a microSD chip that gets inserted into phones as I have the need,) Putting a software front end on this would be an outstanding achievement. The version I currently use (because it is much more listenable than any version I've come across so far) is the Twentieth Century New Testament read by J.A. Carter. http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=New+Testament http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=Bible For this feature to provide much if any additional usability over simple MP3 files in a list, It needs to be able to pick specific verses/ verse ranges (not just chapters.) I'm very capable and willing to produce the individual verses from larger files into any format needed. but programming in a time code for each verse would more likely be the appropriate way to skin this apple. That is, the OSIS code for an audio verse should have a filename component, a 'verse start MM:SS.TTT (minutes, seconds, milliseconds) argument, and a verse end argument. If defining timecodes inside large mp3 files is too cumbersome, I'm willing to separate the files of a version into verses. I've done initial work for separating the files above into verses. (However, I stopped, because the value of verse separated files is limited without advanced player controls to take advantage of them.) With proper setup, I feel that trimming verses out of the works above for a new testament would take me about a week per gospel sized book. (so about 10 weeks for the NT, and about 3 months for a Bible). However, I can only work on English texts, because verse separation clearly requires native language ability.
--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Peter von Kaehne <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peter von Kaehne <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Audio text linkage To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 5:40 AM I see the problem with module size. What codecs for speech/sound are available on iphone? Presumably the module size could be reduced by having the lowest quality lossy format as long as it still sounds ok. > Von: Nic Carter <[email protected] > Altho, it could stream the audio? >From the internet? No, I think there would be a security problem. Peter -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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