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

[Norbert Rennert]

I realised that I had sent this message to the Lexicography list again 
as soon as I hit the Send button, but by then it was to late. I had 
wanted to send it to the LTS List instead. Seeing as Sheldon is a former 
Mac user, i think he'll be tickled to hear your story.

Norbert


Randy Radney wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:radney at twu.ca>)
>
>
>
> On 18 Dec 2006, at 08:44, N! orbert 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 w! ith 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. 
>> <https://%0Amail.jaars.org/%7Esheldon_kehler@sil.org/EasyRecorder.html>jaars.org/~sheldon_kehler at sil.org/EasyRecorder.html
>> ! The developer's email is: sheldon_kehler at sil.org
>>
>> Toolbox can be downloaded from:
>> http://www.sil. 
>> <http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/>org/computing/toolbox/
>>
>> Hoping that this program will add tons of audio data to textual 
>> Toolbox databases around the world.
>>
>> Norbert Rennert
>>
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>>
>> NORBERT RENNERT
>> Information Technician
>> Canada Institute of Linguistics
>> 7600 Glover Road, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1
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>> f: 604.513.2128
>>
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