@Stephen66515: Re: Looking for Audio Software for "Audio Learning"
Just as a point of information, one could use Microsoft's ON (OneNote) to automatically index/search for recognisable words/phrases (in several different languages) in sound files - i.e., .MP3 and some other audio file formats - and in the audio tracks of some common video formats.
I have mentioned in this thread the very useful/clever features of OneNote. Of particular relevance is OneNote's use of audio as a datatype.
If you don't know what the heck I am talking about and if you'd like to find out more, there is a good introduction from PCworld.com - here: How to record audio with OneNote to supercharge your note-taking
EDIT 2017-01-07 0131hrs: See also my notes on page 1 of this discussion thread - Searching for information in audio notes in OneNote.
-IainB
I have mostly played about with spoken English in audio tracks in sound files in ON and it works amazingly well on search (in Windows Desktop Search and in ON search) - e.g., being able to detect decipherable words phrases, even in musical songs, though it is best in straight voice recording tracks, because there is less "noise" around the spoken words. It tells you at what point (minutes and seconds) the detected words/phrase being searched for are located in the audio file.
I am currently in the process of converting a (rather good) maths course on cassette tapes to .MP3 files, for my daughter's use - putting it into ON as audio files. I am using Audacity for the conversion, as it has the capability to negate/cancel out tape hiss/hum. The (rather old) course employs audio lessons which are to be listened to in conjunction with some (rather good and still current) printed (hardcopy) learning texts on different subjects - e.g., including algebra, geometry, calculus, etc.. The syllabus is relevant to NZ NCEA standards and corresponding Aussie standards. The hardcopy is to be scanned and OCR'd into ON.
So I am to some extent doing something similar - using ON - as to what is being done in this discussion thread - whilst at the same time preserving for posterity an excellent old maths course for use with modern collaborative technology, in my "21st Century Zettelkasten PIM".
-IainB
Ahhhh, this has absolutely nothing to do with "Finding" words in audio tracks - The audio tracks are learning resources (Listen and Repeat style). The bottom left window is where you would type the native then the foreign phrase that you were just taught. The timestamp is purely for reference (IE: If you think to yourself "hmm...how do you even pronounce that?" it gives you a way you can get back to it!)
Transcription is an option, albeit a rather complex one, which I may introduce far later (I don't know yet because I don't know quite how difficult that one is going to be)
Sounds / looks great Stephen,
bonus points for making it translatable!
(although there's so little there in terms of text, that most people would manage it)
-tomos
The main software itself is not actually currently translatable, although I can have that resolved very easily (and intend to) - I'm focusing on it in a simple basis for now, and will expand to that when polishing
In terms of what the software actually does:
- Easily create translation notes from audio learning files
- Make other notes via the notepad window
- Store "Favourite" translations
- Import/Export of all notes
- Store current track position (when paused/stopped/quitting)
More stuff is coming soon, as and when I work on it (I'm trying not to procrastinate too much from my actual language learning...by making a language learning tool haha)
~Stephen
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