[annodex-users] annodex for recording and indexing speech

[Silvia.Pfeiffer at csiro.au]

Dear Joao,

If you have a Windows computer, you can use the DMTagger indexing software from CSIRO for authoring: www.dmtagger.com . I would use the speaker name in the meta tags and also somehow in the id tag (e.g. frank1, claude1, frank2 etc). Other than that you will have to do your authoring using CMML files.

Are you aware that you can put ogg files and cmml files as separate files on an apache server and that mod_annodex will multiplex them on demand?

As for clients: the MetaVid guys http://metavid.ucsc.edu/ have used just the vlc backend part of the firefox plugin in their application and have written their own user interface. This is always a possibility. However, the vlc backend is the part that is sometimes unreliable, in particular on Linux. I've seen it work on Ubuntu though - the sound might be a driver problem on your computer? I also don't think there were any changes on that part in svn recently, but feel free to experiment with it. Maybe a native compile helps (though I'm doubtful).

Will you site become public? We're always interested to see how people use the technology!

Cheers,
Silvia.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: annodex-users-bounces at lists.annodex.net 
> [mailto:annodex-users-bounces at lists.annodex.net] On Behalf Of 
> João Miguel Neves
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 5:45 AM
> To: annodex-users at lists.annodex.net
> Subject: [annodex-users] annodex for recording and indexing speech
> 
> 
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I'm checking annodex as the base of an application to record and index
> speech (in order to replace analog tapes for hearings in a court). The
> final result are sound files with the indication of who was 
> the speaker
> at the time.
> 
> My first prototype is building up to something like:
> 
> 1) Record sound.
> 2) Convert sound file to Ogg/Vorbis or Ogg/Speex
> 3) Put the files in a apache with mod_annodex.
> 4) Have an app that allows listening to the sound stream and mark who
> the speaker is.
> 
> Step 3 is needed because a judge may need to hear back a recording
> during the hearing before it is indexed.
> 
> I've been able to setup apache with mod_annodex (it worked a 
> lot better
> once I understood that the .anx files on the filesystem shouldn't pass
> through anxenc before). Congratulations for that one.
> 
> I'm looking for clients and indexing software for annodex streams.
> 
> So far I've used normal ogg players and the annodex firefox extension
> (has some issues in ubuntu 5.10[1] - I'll try the svn one 
> tomorrow). Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 						João Miguel Neves
> 
> [1] - doesn't install (I needed to unpack the xpi and put the 
> plug-in in
> the right directory) and I never got sound out of it.
>