Audio questions

[Nicholas Thieberger]

Andrea

There is another way of making standalone audio/text links work, and
that is using Audiamus, a tool I wrote to allow me to work with any
number of unsegemented audio files. There's a description here:
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/audiamus.htm

It takes the output of Transcriber or Elan and lets you work with a
whole corpus of media (video or audio) via searchable text.

A copy of the software is available on request.

Nick
At 10:02 AM -0500 28/1/05, Andrea Berez wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I am a new member of the RNLD list, and I need some advice on
>handling audio for a project involving Dena'ina Athabascan.
>
>We are working on a large-scale project to create an enduring
>digital archive of Dena'ina resources, and part of the project
>involves making products for community use. We have hundreds of
>digitized recordings of traditional stories, and we want to create a
>facility for combining XML transcriptions of those stories (from
>ELAN) with the audio to produce a simple HTML display where users
>can hear and read along in a line-by-line fashion. These are to be
>free-standing CD-ROMs, not dependent upon an online connection.
>
>My question is this: how can we use the timecodes produced by ELAN
>to segment the audio into individual lines? We don't want to have to
>cut each file by hand for several reasons: first, some of the
>stories are extrememly long; second, we are already subdividing the
>audio within ELAN and it makes no sense to do it twice; third, we
>want to make this as easy as possible so that interested community
>members will want to do it (as opposed to linguistics grad students
>like myself).
>
>I have no preference for either playing the audio segments from an
>intact original file or by chopping the audio into individual files;
>it's just that we don't know where to start.
>
>Any help or advice is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrea Berez
>
>
>
>
>***********************
>Andrea Berez
>LINGUIST List Editor
>Wayne State University
>andrea at linguistlist.org
>***********************


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