On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:23:25PM -0600, Bill White wrote: > Today I was looking for a tool to ease my transcription of a recording > of a half-hour appointment with a doctor. > > Googling led to https://transcribe.wreally.com/ for the job - it really > works well, and it seems like something orgmode should be able to do. > > The idea is to unite a media player with a text-editing window. Certain > commands issued *while in the text window* will operate on the media > player: pause, go back or ahead 2 seconds, slow down, speed up, etc. > Uniting the two eliminates constant switching between a media player and > a text editor - it's all integrated and controllable without switching > windows. > > From > https://transcribe.wreally.com/guide/how-to-transcribe-audio-interviews-faster/ > > The advantage of using Transcribe over a conventional text editor + > > media player approach is that you don’t have to lift your hands-off > > the keyboard at all. You can control the audio with your keyboard > > while simultaneously typing into the built-in text editor. > > Could orgmode do something like that?
I don't see why not. Emacs could, or perhaps your audio program or window manager. I use xbindkeys and a few commands to control mpd (music daemon) and skip tracks, change volume, etc. Emacs has frontends to the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
