[sword-devel] Audio Bibles

[Israel]

Ok, this might be really nice for the 'protected' versions that a lot of 
people use (NIV, NLT, etc...) I will forward this on to the rest of the 
developers as well.
Thanks very much!!

On 10/15/2013 08:11 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
> There is an online API, available from Every Tribe, Every Nation/Faith 
> Comes By Hearing, that allows a programmer to create an application 
> that will display either the text and/or audio for a vast number of 
> scripture translations. I had hoped to gain access to this for the 
> SWORD project, but it turns out that every application developer would 
> need to gain their own API key and that this key is supposed to be 
> kept rather secretive so that someone else doesn't abuse the Terms of 
> Service with someone else's key. Thus, it doesn't seem too amenable to 
> use in open source projects.
>
> Alternatively you could use the OSIS methods specified or use HTML 
> elements. Most Sword applications render out HTML into a reasonably 
> modern display engine. You could cover a great many Sword users by 
> embedding audio elements into your module for play. Controlling 
> multiple such files on a single rendering might be difficult and might 
> require some additional tweaking to applications.
>
> --Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com 
> <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Can you provide a link to any sort of API, or way to include this
>     existing content through OSIS (or just point me to the correct
>     header files so I can look for myself).
>     Thanks so much for the quick response!!
>
>
>     On 10/14/2013 11:22 PM, refdoc at gmx.net <mailto:refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>>     There is a lot of linked audiocontent available for
>>     Xulsword/mkbible. There has also been extensive discussion on
>>     this.list on the best way for integrating audio content. Osis
>>     allows for that, as do our modules, but so far few have used this.
>>
>>     Sent from my HTC
>>
>>     ----- Reply message -----
>>     From: "Israel" <israeldahl at gmail.com> <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>
>>     To: <sword-devel at crosswire.org> <mailto:sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>>     Subject: [sword-devel]  Audio Bibles
>>     Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 01:23
>>
>>
>>     Hi, I e-mailed the Bible Time list about this, but I thought I
>>     would e-mail this list as well.
>>     Is there support for Audio Bibles built into SWORD?  Are there
>>     any audio Bibles hosted already?  If there aren't any would it be
>>     ok to package some to include in the repos, assuming Audio
>>     integration could be included in most SWORD programs.
>>     I am specifically working on an Ubuntu Touch Bible app, and would
>>     like to have an offline Audio Bible, as "Faith comes by hearing".
>>     It would be great to include this functionality.  Of course if
>>     crosswire wont host this, I suppose I might get a repo going
>>     somewhere.
>>
>>     The audio Bibles I have in mind are of course public domain,
>>     namely librivox.org <http://librivox.org>.  Of course they
>>     contain an intro about librivox and are not in verse by verse
>>     sections.  There is also a public domain KJV bible read by
>>     firemen (though I can't remember where I found that one...
>>     something like firefighters.org... not sure though)
>>
>>     Anyhow thanks for any pointers you can give (especially specific
>>     header files if they exist)
>>
>>     May the LORD Jesus Christ continue to bless all of you for your
>>     precious work!
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Regards
>>
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