Audio questions

[Doug Marmion]

Hi Andrea,

A possibility might be to use Econv and Transcriber. The new version of
Transcriber (1.5.0, available at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=294667) will take
a segmented sound file and write out the segments to separate files (while
preserving the original). Econv (http://www.mpi.nl/tools/econv.html)
converts between Elan, Shoebox and Transcriber formats.

cheers,
doug



On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, 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
>
>
>
>
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