Audio questions

[Nicholas Thieberger]

There is some software called media-cutter, but I haven't used it,
does anyone know if it will segment audio according to given
timecodes as Andrea was asking?

Nick

At 12:08 PM -0500 28/1/05, Andrea Berez wrote:
>Dear David,
>
>Thanks for your reply. I'll take a look into your suggestions and
>let you know what I come up with. I am currently looking into using
>SMIL, and I'll keep the list posted on my findings as well.
>
>Thank you,
>Andrea Berez
>
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>Andrea Berez
>LINGUIST List Editor
>Wayne State University
>andrea at linguistlist.org
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>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David Nathan wrote:
>
>>Hi Andrea
>>
>>A short reply to your question - I dont know of any software that
>>will automatically chop up your sound files, although there should
>>in principle be something around. For video editing, for example, a
>>method is to construct an EDL "edit decision list" which contains
>>basically the time markers (as in ELAN); the software then chops up
>>(and reassembles) the parts. Perhaps a search for key terms here
>>might turn up something.
>>
>>The other (better, perhaps) line of enquiry is leaving the sound
>>file whole and playing parts of it in synch with the ELAN text
>>stream. You probably already know that it is not possible to do
>>this with ordinary web pages. I think the answer is in using some
>>kind of "wrapper format" that allows some software to control the
>>sound in terms of time codes. Possibilities include MP3 and
>>Quicktime. For example, you could use MP3 and set up your data
>>within Flash; a simpler solution would be to use Quicktime - you
>>could convert your ELAN files to Quicktime text format and also
>>import your sound. Users would then be able to play it from a web
>>page via a Quicktime plug-in.
>>
>>Let us know what you eventually decide.
>>
>>David Nathan
>>Endangered Languages Archive
>>SOAS London


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