Fluid narration in Tobi

Submitted by GKearney on Sun, 2011-10-02 22:47
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Our narrators have this concern about using tobi:

They are concerned about the inability to fluidly narrate. That is to move from phase to phase without have to restart the recording in each phase. They feel and I agree that all the steps, moving to the next phase, starting the recording having the recording stop and then moving on to the next phase is causing the narration to become unnatural and choppy. What they want is a way to move to the next narration and start reading without having to start up the record function again. Is this possible?

Submitted by RSingh on Sun, 2011-10-02 23:01

Dear Greg,

Tobi provides capability to select the complete paragarph.You can select the complete paragraph from document pane.Then record audio for the complete paragraph at the strech and you can use audio editing to synchronize audio with text later on.

With Regards
Rachana

Submitted by daniel.weck on Mon, 2011-10-03 03:50

Hi Greg, use SHIFT-CTRL-R instead of CTRL-R (check the "audio" menu to see all the available keyboard shortcuts). The red round button (record) on the lower left corner of the application window is followed immediately by a white one. The white one corresponds to SHIFT-CTRL-R. This will automatically move the text selection to the next available candidate in the document, and automatically start the recording. This makes the narrator workflow more fluid.
Kind regards, Daniel

Submitted by lRoDiNl on Fri, 2012-08-03 23:09

Hi everyone.

I'm a native spanish speaker, so sorry about my mistakes. I've used this button, but I've become frustrated because after reading when I check my work there are some paragraphs where the audio is uselees because it's ¿superposed? and you can't understand any phrase. It happends everytime I use this button and I read at least 4 pharagraphs. Instead of making easier my wokr, at the end I know that I'll have to review and record again some of my previous work. ¿Any solutions?

Submitted by daniel.weck on Sat, 2012-08-04 01:59
Hello lRoDiNl, Your english is good, don't worry about your mistakes. Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce the problem you describe. What version of Tobi are you using? Since version 1.7.9.0, the SHIFT-CTRL-R "continuous recording" feature has been improved and is now lag-free (in previous versions, because of performance issues, there was potentially a few milliseconds of missing audio in between recorded phrases). Could you please try to explain how the audio is "superposed"? Do you mean "overlap"? Kind regards, Daniel

Submitted by lRoDiNl on Sat, 2012-08-04 19:13

Try to imagine this by reading and recording the next pharagraph in TOBI (the number at the rigth is the highlighted phrase number in TOBI):

1 Dear Greg,

2 Tobi provides capability to select the complete paragarph.You can select the complete paragraph from document pane.

3 Then record audio for the complete paragraph at the strech and you can use audio editing to synchronize audio with text later on.

4 With Regards

5 Rachana

Have you read it? Try to reproduce the phrase number 2 in your mind, but it will be "chopped and mixed" something like this

1 Dear Greg,

2 bi-To provi-cap des ability to lect the-se complete para-u can -garph.Yoselect lete-the comp fro-parag m docu-raph -ment pane.
2 Tobi provides capability to select the complete paragarph.You can select the complete paragraph from document pane.(original phrase)

3 Then record audio for the complete paragraph at the strech and you can use audio editing to synchronize audio with text later on.

4 With Regards

5 Rachana

Its the best way I can explain the problem without sharing the file. It happends when you record more than 1 phrase, and at anymoment. I use the latest TOBI version posted on the webpage. Lots of my co-workers have the same problem as I do.
Windows 7

Submitted by daniel.weck on Sun, 2012-08-05 05:45
Hello, I have just tried again on my machine (Windows 7 32 bits) and I am not able to reproduce this weird "mangled" playback behaviour. I tried with mono and stereo audio, and with or without accelerated playback rate (which preserves the voice pitch, except in stereo mode). The recorded audio is perfectly fine (using SHIFT-CTRL-R continuous recording), and the playback is good too. So, could you please make a small text + audio Tobi project that shows the bug on your side, zip the folder, and send it to me via email: daniel.weck@gmail.com Thank you very much! Daniel

Submitted by lRoDiNl on Wed, 2012-08-08 00:09

Sended :D

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