What makes audio documents good?
Can be consumed while doing something else
What makes audio documents good?
Simultaneous group consumption: listening together
What makes web documents good?
Hyperlinking
What makes web documents good?
Keyword search
Cross-breeding audio and text for the web
Use case: The Leaky Cauldron PotterCast
Walk through the production of Leaky Cauldron, starting with
the news segment.
- Records her voice
- Gets uploaded to server (recording to Flash Communication Server, or uploading an audio file using a webform, or FTP, or even calling in to some place).
- speech-text processing (for example: WizzScribe or Sphinx) - repeat point about not requiring great speech-text... that's the whole point - returns an xml file transcription synchronized with audio (we'll reveal more later).
- File is styled to present a visual editing interface in a browser, reminiscent of a text editor. 2 classes of editing - things that just affect the textual representation and things that affect the composite document as a whole.
- She corrects text, maybe adds some punctuation or extra paragraph marks.
- She adds the audio clip about the news to introduce the thinger.
- She makes it public (which could mean a few different things, but not relevant here).
Use case: The Leaky Cauldron PotterCast
Sue's document is then included in the whole episode of PotterCast:
- Person makes file in similar manner
- Includes previous file
- Makes public