[sword-devel] Audio Bibles

Thu Oct 17 01:48:07 MST 2013

As such any file contained in the data section of a module will be pulled along by the existing module manager. It is therefore duplication of effort to have a second manager just for audio material. 

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From: "John Austin" <gpl.programs.info at gmail.com>
To: "SWORD Developers&apos; Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Subject: [sword-devel] Audio Bibles
Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 07:02
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. 

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From: "Israel" <israeldahl at gmail.com>

To: <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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