[Lexicog] EasyRecorder for Toolbox (adding sound recordings to Toolbox files)

[Randy Radney]

Norbert,

Yes, this is a duplicate, but I followed your instructions in the  
former message, downloading EasyRecorder for the XP system I am  
running on my Mac. I hope Sheldon wouldn't be too upset if he knew :)

I have been through the tutorial; it seems this would be quite fun to  
work with a native speaker on. Thanks for the info.

Cheers,
radney
(J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D.
radney at twu.ca)



On 18 Dec 2006, at 08:44, Norbert Rennert wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This is a cross posting from another mailing list. My apologies if  
> you received this earlier.
> Toolbox is a good program to use for making wordlists and  
> dictionaries. It also has the ability to play back sound  
> recordings. These recordings can be anywhere on your computer, but  
> it is better to put them into a subfolder where your wordlist or  
> dictionary file is located.
>
> A sample Toolbox record could look like this:
> \lx headword
> \ps noun
> \ge english gloss here
> \gn another language gloss here
> \de english definition here
> \dn another language definition here
> \sf media\sample.wav (this would point to a sound file named  
> 'sample.wav' in a folder named 'media' which resides in the folder  
> where the dictionary data file is stored)
>
> In Toolbox, pressing F4 or shift+F4 plays back the sound file  
> referenced in the \sf field.
> Up until now it has been a fairly tedious process to record words,  
> label them individually and enter that information into your  
> database. Recently, a colleague of mine developed a program called  
> EasyRecorder that will read Toolbox files and record speech for  
> each record just by using the arrow keys of your keyboard. The  
> program reads your data file and displays all the words in your  
> dictionary like the browse view in Toolbox. You can do some  
> customization of which fields to display. You must also specify  
> where you want to store the sound files. Pressing the right arrow  
> key starts the recording, pressing the left arrow key stops the  
> recording. Pressing the down arrow moves the focus to the next word  
> or record. When the left arrow keys gets pressed, recording stops  
> and the program saves the sound file with the text in the \ge field  
> as its name (another field can be specified as well). The sound  
> file is saved in the specified folder with the name from the gloss  
> field and the name and path is entered in the \sf (sound file)  
> field of the database. This is about as quick and pain-free a  
> method to add sound recordings to Toolbox files as could be  
> possible. All you need is a microphone and a computer that can  
> record sound. There are video tutorials on the site. Please note  
> that this program is still in an alpha stage of development, but it  
> does what it promises to do already. For peace of mind, make a back  
> up of your data before using this program. I'm sure the developer  
> would love to hear about bugs, suggestions for improvement, or  
> praises for this awesome utility.
>
> The link to EasyRecorder is:
> https://mail.jaars.org/~sheldon_kehler@sil.org/EasyRecorder.html
> The developer's email is: sheldon_kehler at sil.org
>
> Toolbox can be downloaded from:
> http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
>
> Hoping that this program will add tons of audio data to textual  
> Toolbox databases around the world.
>
> Norbert Rennert
>
> NORBERT RENNERT
> Information Technician
> Canada Institute of Linguistics
> 7600 Glover Road, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1
> t: 604.513.2129 ext. 3956
> f: 604.513.2128
>
>
> 

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