Fantastic! Sadly rare are examples of technologists using technology to serve people's inner desires and expressed needs. Also far too rare are opportunities to have parents comprehend and enjoy our work. You scored on both points. Bravo.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:47 PM Rick <thesuggestednamesareaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are a good son indeed! > > > On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 16:36:25 UTC-8, howar...@gmail.com wrote: > > This will probably have a very narrow audience (intersection of > golang-nuts readers and Catholics), but may serve as an example of > functional audio-processing in Go. > > For those unaware, in the Catholic faith, the Rosary is a collection of > prayers meant to be said while meditating, often with the use of a physical > rosary, a set of prayer beads in a particular pattern. While nominally > fairly simple, there have been various alterations and additions adopted by > various groups that mean that the Rosary as prayed by one group may differ > in a number of details from that prayed by another. > > The next relevant fact is that there are a number of recorded rosaries > available, some commercially, some public-domain, some on cd, some online, > generally with the intention that the person listening to the audio would > be praying along with it. Because of the differences in regional > pronunciation, word choice (Holy Ghost vs Holy Spirit, for example), > speaking speed, choice of additions and the like, it can be difficult to > find a rosary that is completely suited to one's prayer style. > > RosaryGen combines a couple of TOML files describing the constituent > prayers, mysteries, and the structure of the rosary desired, and renders > out a variable number of audio files by combining the files in the desired > pattern. It accepts a list of directories and searches them in the given > order, using the file from the first location found, making it easy to > layer personal changes over audio drawn from other sources. > > https://github.com/TheGrum/rosarygen > > Have a look. At the very least, processor.go may be of some interest - it > builds on azul3d.org's audio.Slices to build a stack of effects and run > the audio files through it. This is largely unused by the current code, as > processor.go is actually pulled out of a different project, swarmvoice, as > yet unfinished and unreleased, but I'll probably use it to add support for > laying intro and outro music. > > On a different note, we have here a grand example of motivated programmer > laziness. I built a rosary for my mother by grabbing YouTube videos and > carefully carving them up into cd tracks, replaced some missing prayers, > fought with Audacity crashing frequently... and then she wanted something > tweaked, and I looked at Audacity... and instead I went and spent a week > writing a program to take audio files and stitch them together into a > proper set of rosary tracks. > > Gave her a rosary Sunday morning, she asked for changes, and I went > through four revisions that same day, ending up with something that has > made her quite happy. Yep, I spent an entire week of free time, during > which I surely could have finished the revamp of the rosary I had hand-done > for her. But each subsequent change she needed (including re-recording > audio with different words, swapping the order of prayers that recur 20 > times in the rosary, and the like) took minutes to a half-hour at the most, > and now she has a CD with *all* the prayers she likes to say, with timing > that does not leave her gasping for breath or champing at the bit for the > next prayer to start, in the order she prefers. And she wants copies for > her friends. Success achieved! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
