5 Jan
2009
5 Jan
'09
6:29 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:01:11PM +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Ted Walther
<ted(a)reactor-core.org> wrote:
Thanks Chris. That sounds like overkill. While browsing the web for my
needs, it seems like there is a similar situation with dictation
software. Lots of things that "almost" work as needed for the
application, or that work well but with tremendous overhead.
Ted
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The features I need in such a program is a way to
"remotely" signal
to it to pause, rewind five seconds then unpause. A desired feature
would be some way to speed up and slow down the audio stream without
altering the pitch.
Sonic Visualiser (http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/) can do this with
remote control via OSC, but (a) its visualisation may be overkill, at
least if you are transcribing speech rather than music, and (b) setting
up OSC control for it is a bit of a project in itself.
There is a small program (sv-osc-send) in the data/osc directory of the
Sonic Visualiser distribution which can be used to send an OSC command
to any program; there is also a shell script (sv-command) which tries
to look up the Sonic Visualiser OSC port and send your command to the
right place; and there is a rather convoluted example remote-demo
script for SV using OSC -- but none of these are provided with any of
the SV binary packages, you need the source package or repository
checkout. Also, for any of this to work, your copy of SV must have
been built with OSC support in the first place (it is optional).