It shouldn't be that much work (!? he said, in the comfort of knowing he
won't be doing it :-), at least for lines. Individual words could be too
hard.
Write a little app, so you can listen to the recording and click a
button at the start (or end?) of each line, and just keep track of the
times vs lines that way. Add in the ability to take up from an existing
position, and with a little bit of manual editing you should be nearly
there.
Of course, if you (or your helpers) are making the recordings, then you
can capture the button clicks at the same time as the recording is being
made.
Alex.
On 12/02/2020 12:28, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks, that’s a start - I will look at the dictionary. I suppose the callbacks
rely on one analysing how long each line/word takes the performer to say. It’s
a lot of work, but there’s no way around it since potentially every line takes
a different length of time to recite. If it’s too much work, I guess I can just
display the whole text and have one callback at the end of each recording.
Maybe that is really the practical solution for a large body of work (say all
the Shakespeare sonnets, for example).
Anyway thanks for the hint.
Graham
On 12 Feb 2020, at 12:16, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
You will have to use the callbacks property of the player to do what you want
to do. The callbacks list would be your cues. From the dictionary:
The callbacks of a player <> is a list of callbacks, one per line. Each callback
consists of an interval number, a comma, and a message <> name.
Regards
Tore Nilsen
12. feb. 2020 kl. 11:25 skrev Graham Samuel via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
Folks, forgive my ignorance, but it’s a long time since I considered the
following and wondered what pitfalls there are.
I have in mind a project where a recording of someone reading a poetry text
(“old fashioned” poetry in metrical lines) needs to be synchronised to the
display text itself on the screen, ideally so that a cursor or highlight would
move from word to word with the speaker, although that would almost certainly
involve too much work for the developer (me), or at least highlight lines as
they are being spoken. I see that one would inevitably have to add cues to the
spoken text file to fire off the highlighting, which is indeed an unavoidable
amount of work, but can it be done at all in LC? For example, what form would
the cues take?
TIA
Graham
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