[sword-devel] (OT) Audio editor for sermons (CleanSpeech) invites alpha testers

[Gavin Rogers]

Hey count me in!!

I'm a linux guy, but my main linux machine is an iBook so i can reboot 
into OSX as well. I would love to help you guys put together packages 
for linux/OSX and (long term future) integrate this into the debian main 
package selection.

But for the momet, we need to get some kinda versioning system etc. I'm 
impartial on how to do this. But what about an account over on 
sourceforge.net? We could get one for free.

I would be willing to devote some coding/packaging/documenting/debugging 
time to such a simple but useful tool!

Gavin Rogers

Lynn Allan wrote:

>I've been working with the founder of the www.sermonaudio.com website
>and the project leaders of the Audacity audio editor to develop a
>simplified/enhanced audio editor specifically designed for
>speeches/sermons.
>
>SermonEditor (aka CleanSpeech) is about to go from narrow alpha
>testing to wider beta testing. Both the existing Audacity project and
>the proposed SermonEditor are open source freeware using wxWidgets,
>and the actual release 1.0 or 1.1 of SermonEditor will be
>cross-platform.
>
>My impression is that SermonEditor:
>* might be useful for future audio support in sword.
>
>* might be of interest to some people who participate on the
>sword-devel list, at least eventually as it matures
>
>* would benefit from feedback from sword-devel participants
>
>Full version with test files, dll's, etc.(3.7 meg)
>www.bibleinverse.org/Misc/CleanSpeechSetup_0.4.a.exe
>
>Enhancements to "vanilla" audacity audio editor:
>* many menu items and widgets removed to "declutter"
>     (e.g. SermonEditor "skin" doesn't provide Record capability)
>* primitive "ClickRemoval" effect
>* primitive "Leveler" effect
>* primitive "TruncateSilentPauses" effect
>* One Button "Prepare Speech"
>  - normalize
>  - noise removal
>  - declick
>  - truncate long pauses
>  - leveler (make soft sections louder)
>  - re-normalize
>  - convert to standardized .mp3 format
>        (11025 sampling rate, 16kbps, mono)
>* Batch processing of above steps for dozens/hundreds of sermons with
>console app (CleanChain.exe)
>
>For comparison, the "real" audacity cross platform audio editor is at:
>http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>and the windows audacity version can be downloaded from:
>http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-win/audacity-win-1.2.3.exe
>
>audacity for mac (not SermonEditor):
>http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac
>
>audacity  for linux/unix (not SermonEditor):
>http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/linux
>
>For His glory and honor
>
>
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