[sword-devel] Audio Bibles

[John Austin]

The new xulsword (3.6+) which hasn't officially been announced yet, but
which is available now as a google code download, has a module manager
which handles audio. As of today, audio for WEB is available from IBT's
audio "repository" where it can be downloaded in zip module format. However
currently xulsword for Linux cannot play the audio (only the Windows
version can, but this should be remedied in the future). This demonstrates
one possible module manager implementation for audio. But xulsword expects
no other special markup to handle the audio. It simply looks for an audio
file for any chapter it's displaying, and if it finds one, it shows a
clickable audio icon above the chapter.

John


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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> 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 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> <israeldahl at gmail.com>
>> To: <sword-devel at crosswire.org> <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.  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!
>>
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