Audio questions

[Heidi Johnson]

Andrea,
I can't help with the ELAN problem - sorry. But I would like to
urge you to see if someone involved with your project would like
to get involved with DELAMAN - the Digital Endangered Languages
and Musics Archive Network. You could ask Helen or Tony about it,
and/or go to www.delaman.org for an overview. Our goal is to help
each other by pooling ideas, standards, technologies, etc etc.

If anyone in your project group is interested in following up
that, could you put them in touch with me to talk about it?

Thanks,
Heidi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Berez [mailto:andrea at linguistlist.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:02 AM
> To: Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity at unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: Audio questions
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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