Audacity Forum

Hi

I am dyslexic. I am also a dyslexia tutor. I believe there is a big need for a simple free recording editing software for dyslexic people both in the workplace and in education. This is becoming more important as speech recognition programmes have now reached the point of being helpful for the majority of users.

Some commercial programmes such as audio note taker identify words and present them as blocks along the record display. What you see is a page laid out in paragraph form but showing blocks of varying length rather than words.

You can then edit the recording by highlighting , copying, cutting, dragging and dropping the blocks around.

Whoud it be possible to modify audacity to do this? Would it infringe any existing patents? Does anyone else think it might be useful?

Do you mean http://www.sonocent.com/en/the_software ... does-it-do ?

Audacity has a patch submitted at the moment to colour code audio clips but it may need more work.

Audacity can't make clips while it's recording (I suspect it would be difficult to overcome that) but it can add labels .

Is your suggestion that Audacity does an analysis like Analyze > Sound Finder automatically (which would label blocks of sound according to the parameters you chose) without you doing it yourself? And then you want the labelled sections to become clips which you can colour? Or coloured labels?


Gale

Audacity is a really simple editor and doesn't "know" what it's doing most of the time. It can't tell where the beginning and ends of words are by "speaking" English. The only way it would know what's going on is possibly silent sensing a conversation and that would only work at all reliably with a perfect, quiet recording and somebody who stopped and started haltingly with each word. Not the normal way of speaking.

Audacity is open source and produced by volunteer developers and programmers. If you're volunteering to program or code additions to Audacity, then by all means. We're happy to work with you. If you're volunteering somebody else to code then you need to find that somebody else.

I think this is the first time a poster has talked about using Audacity this way.

kozikowski wrote:Audacity is a really simple editor and doesn't "know" what it's doing most of the time. It can't tell where the beginning and ends of words are by "speaking" English. The only way it would know what's going on is possibly silent sensing a conversation and that would only work at all reliably with a perfect, quiet recording and somebody who stopped and started haltingly with each word.

As bob1, said that program does not do speech recognition. I tried it out. It does not claim to separate words, only phrases (look at the link I posted).

All the phrases are blue, so it is not distinguishing phrases at all. All the phrases or sentence have at least half a second between them. The phrase detection is nothing that Sound Finder can't do already.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote: Is your suggestion that Audacity does an analysis like Analyze > Sound Finder automatically (which would label blocks of sound according to the parameters you chose) without you doing it yourself? And then you want the labelled sections to become clips which you can colour? Or coloured labels?

Yes ! Exactly ! - I would have said so my self if I was more erudite and had a better understanding off how these things worked.