any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?

[Stef Mientki]

thanks Marcus,

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 7/19/2009 4:15 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I'm using Scintilla as a wxPython widget with great pleasure.
>> I now have an application where I want to make notes during a 
>> conversation,
>> but also want to record the speech during that conversation.
>> I'm using Scintilla as a wxPython widget for editing and PyAudio for 
>> the speech recording,
>> until so far everything works fine.
>>
>> Here the problem part:
>> I need to synchronize the typed text with the sound during playback.
>> So if I click somewhere in the sound recording,
>> the line of text, typed that moment should be highlighted.
>> And vise versa, if the cursor in the text is moved and some special 
>> key is pressed,
>> the sound starting 10 or 20seconds earlier should be playbacked.
>>
>> I though of adding bookmarks (because these are fixed in the text), 
>> and keep a list of bookmarks and sound pointers.
>> This idea should work, but there are only 31 bookmarks.
>>
>> Any other suggestions ?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Stef Mientki
> That sounds like a very specialized type of thing, 
Well from an application point of view,
with the current netbooks,
this looks like a perfect tool for any conversation or meeting.
> which only the few people with experience with wxPython, PyAudio, and 
> Scintilla could help you with...
>
I was afraid of that too, so I dropped the question in several places,
and the writer of Scintilla himself came with the perfect answer.

cheers,Stef
> But you might try having a dictionary with notes and associated times, 
> or just give each note a four-digit ID number at the beginning of it 
> when it's entered and use that in the dictionary (to keep keys 
> shorter). Or you could just do a little hack and increase the number 
> of bookmarks allowed (seeing as source is available) :p
>
> Marcus