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Hello Marvyn and others,<br>
<br>
Toolbox is a good program to use for making wordlists and dictionaries.
It also has the capability 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. <br>
<br>
A sample Toolbox record could look like this:<br>
\lx headword<br>
\ps n<br>
\ge english gloss here<br>
\gn another language gloss here<br>
\de english definition here<br>
\dn another language definition here<br>
\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)<br>
<br>
In Toolbox, pressing F4 or shift+F4 plays back the sound file
referenced in the \sf field.<br>
In the past it has been a fairly tedious process to record words and
label them individually. 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
labels the sound file with the text in the \ge (English gloss) field
(or another field can be specified as well). The sound file is saved in
the specified folder with the name from gloss and the 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 state of development, but it does
what it promises to do already. I'm sure the developer would love to
hear about bugs, suggestions for improvement, or praises for this
awesome utility.<br>
<br>
The link to EasyRecorder is:<br>
<a
href="https://mail.jaars.org/%7Esheldon_kehler@sil.org/EasyRecorder.html">https://mail.jaars.org/~sheldon_kehler@sil.org/EasyRecorder.html</a><br>
The developers email is: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sheldon_kehler@sil.org">sheldon_kehler@sil.org</a><br>
<br>
Toolbox can be downloaded from:<br>
<a href="http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/">http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/</a><br>
<br>
Hoping that this program will add tons of audio data to textual Toolbox
databases around the world.<br>
<br>
Norbert Rennert<br>
<br>
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