> While on the topic of sound in runrev, does anyone have a way of > displaying a soundwave and selecting a bit of it and returning the > start/end point of the chunk? I want to display a 45 minute sound > file and be able to transcribe it and have time alignment of each > transcribed chunk.
Does your application really need a visual representation? If not I have a transcriber stack that is still a work in progress, which works "by the numbers" i.e. when you start the audio it has a running time clock, when you pause or resume it starts from the point where you stopped. You can bump forward or back to replay a section that might have been difficult to transcribe...etc. the old fashion dictaphone foot-pedal machine model, but now on a computer interface. Someone can quit and come back tomorrow and pick up the audio at the exact point where they left off... we have been using this for about 5 years (originally in Supercard) with our correspondents, and others who transcribe audio. We just put the standalone on a CD with an MPG of the audio, mail it to them and they send back transcripts of interviews etc. by email... I just ported it to Revolution last month. if interested email me off list... it would be a simple matter to pass the point in time where you are pausing to start transcription to a variable and poke it into the transcription field. In fact, I'll be working on that whole interface here in the next week... But if you a visual wave bar is critical to your app this is won't help. I'll be continuing to develop this to transcribe and catalog audio libraries where the original sound files, containing information on a diversity of subjects, remain intact as single files, but a dbase will contain references, transcriptions etc. tied to the exact time points where they are found in the audio, so that all sound studio cutting of the original audio is dispensed with and the task of transcribing, cataloging etc. can be delegated to someone who has no special skill requirements other than the ability to click, type and listen. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
