Re: text and audio notes

[Oleksij Rempel <linux rempel-privat de>]

Am 31.05.2013 22:38, schrieb Aurimas Černius:
> Hi,
>
> > My name is Oleksij Rempel and i'm linux kernel developer. I use gnote
> > and really like it. So thank you for your work!
> >
> > I was working on gnome-sound-recorder: updating to gstreamer-1.0, doing
> > some more cleaning and refactoring work and integrating methadata. Now i
> > come to the stage where i think it should be integrated with some
> > management software...
> >
> > After some discussion on #gnote with Luc Pionchon, we found that
> > workflow will decide what to do. So here is my:
> > mostly i use gnote and recorder for lectures:
> > - start recorder and gnote
> > - do some notices/anotations, add a timestamp to the text with ctrl+d
> > - if lecture is finished stop recording.
> > - if needed, do some transcription. Annotations will usually help to
> > find correct place.
> >
> > Since my version of recorder will create file name based on timestamp
> > and even add ogg tag with exact time. It is relatively easy to find
> > correct place.
> > After discussion on irc we got idea to change time representation on
> > recorder. So it should be not stream time: start 00:00:00 - end
> > 01:30:22; but exact time: start 10:20:30 - end 11:10:20. In this this
> > case it will be easy to sync with gnotes annotations.
> >
> > For now, we did some changes in ogg specification to represent exact
> > DATETIME in ogg - which is needed for voice/note recordings. I also
> > added it to gstreamer-1.0. Probably even more updates will be needed.
> >
> > It will be good if recorder will be integrated to gnote. Your comments
> > and ideas are welcome.
>
>
> It comes to what specifically is required for integration. As I
> understand, you want to track sound recordings in Gnote notes?
> I image the need to have note(s) in Gnote with links to recorded sound
> files. It can be done via Gnote D-Bus API, that is sound recorded just
> can feed the data to Gnote and this would not require any changes in
> Gnote at all.
> Your described scenario more looks like a need to start/stop recorder
> when in Gnote note and something like a link to recorded file is put
> into a note, when done. This can be done by creating Gnote plugin.
>
> I see no reason, why not. We just need to clarify, what we actually want
> to achieve.

Status update after irc discussion:
- currently, integrating or conecting recorder with gnote will not bring 
any advantages.
- best thing what can be done now, is text with timestamps and 
possibility to export it in kate[1] or some other compatible format. For 
example lrc[2] or srt

In this case, timestamped notes can be synchronised with audio or video 
recording.

[1]http://wiki.xiph.org/OggKate
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_%28file_format%29

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Regards,
Oleksij