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Wordbath -- A transcription tool.

Usage

Invoke with a URL or a filesystem path to some audio.

./wordbath ~/interview.avi
./wordbath http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116-060521.ogg

Audio via URLs is saved to /tmp/wordbath, or your favorite working directory.

Adjust playback speed with by clicking on the provided audio rate buttons.

Hotkeys

Hotkeys can use arbitrary modifiers, such as home row keys instead of 'shift' and 'control'.

Example given: hotkey combination "<s>;" performs an ausio seek forward by 5 seconds. To activate this, hold down the "S" key and hit the "semicolon" key. Such an action will erase any S's left in the transcript in the process.

This is a strange way to do hotkeys, but the usual key modifiers aren't exactly in the home row.

  • <shift>spacebar or <a>spacebar toggle play/pause

  • <F5> to cycle through speaker labels at the end.

  • <F7>, <F8> to slow down or speed up audio by 3 percent

  • <ctrl>s to save next to the audio file, e.g. "audio.mp3.txt"

  • <ctrl>e, to <e>xport in .doc format. (requires unoconv)

  • <ctrl>q to quit

  • <ctrl>z to recover from traumatic deletions

  • <ctrl>y to redo undone traumatic deletions

  • <shift>leftarrow, <shift>rightarrow relative seek to -2,+2 seconds.

  • <s>j, <s>k, <s>l, <s>; relative seek to -5,-1,+1,+5 seconds.

  • <a>s, to <s>eek in Audio to cursor position.

  • <t>s, to <s>eek in Text to audio position.

TODO

  • Use synchronization vectors for time stamping.

  • Undo/Redo stack. (partially implemented)

  • spell checking (partially implemented)

  • Retroactive punctuation editing hotkeys

  • loading of transcript text & other metadata, such as text-audio synchronization vectors.

  • a stack of transcription spacetime contexts.

  • Figure out a way to use capslock effectively.