[sword-devel] Audio Bibles
Israel
israeldahl at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 16:59:06 MST 2013
I like what you did! That is great! Siri, is of course only available
for iOS, so unless there was a SWORD TTS ( I remember using some open
source TTS once... but I don't think it was as realistic sounding as
that). But this would obviously keep the file sizes down, and remove
the need for something like mp3 codecs (though ogg is most likely what I
would use anyhow).
hmm... ok here are some links
http://www.babelfish.org/tts-free.htm
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
and,
http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/espeak.sourceforge.net/Top_10_Sites_Like_Sourceforge_Espeak/
though I think some of those a proprietary.
It might be interesting, this way all new modules would automatically
have an 'audio' component, and it could all programatically be linked
together (like your word by word highlighting)
Thanks for the food for thought
On 10/17/2013 02:30 PM, Hison Kahng wrote:
> Hello developers,
> It's first time to reply in this mailing list for me.
> Due to the audio bible's big data size, I have developed
> text-to-speech (TTS) bible (less than 20Mb) using Apple's built-in
> Siri voice. just check 0:37 sec of this movie and you will see and
> hear Chinese version.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05nkRqfJb-I
> Any suggestion and inquiry welcome.
>
> Hison Kahng
> Amateur iOS developer
>
> Oct 17, 2013 7:53 PM John Austin <gpl.programs.info at gmail.com
> <mailto:gpl.programs.info at gmail.com>> ??:
>
>> One difficult issue is the large size of audio files. This makes it
>> impractical for most people to download all available audio for a
>> module at one time. It seems there needs to be some way that users
>> can be notified when audio is available for a module, but also be
>> able to choose the chapter(s) they want to download, and get them
>> only when they want them. Maybe the SWORD module manager allows this
>> already I don't know.
>>
>> I should mention that xulsword did not use the SWORD API for its
>> module manager because it would have been difficult to wrap the C++
>> functionality into Javascript, and doing so would not have made XUL's
>> RDF database coding any easier, plus using Firefox's build-in
>> parallel download capabilities makes it possible to work with
>> xulsword (including most of the module manager itself) and download
>> various modules all at the same time.
>> -John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:48 PM, refdoc at gmx.net
>> <mailto:refdoc at gmx.net> <refdoc at gmx.net <mailto:refdoc at gmx.net>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my HTC
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "John Austin" <gpl.programs.info at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gpl.programs.info at gmail.com>>
>> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
>> <sword-devel at crosswire.org <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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 <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 <http://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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