Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Freeman
Bill McGonigle wrote: Unless you're merging audio tracks, editing audio tends to defy scripting because you need an ear to listen for the pauses, pops and other cutting/splicing points. But the case in point, looking for touch tones, is different. Touch tones are designed to be

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
Bill Freeman wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: Unless you're merging audio tracks, editing audio tends to defy scripting because you need an ear to listen for the pauses, pops and other cutting/splicing points. But the case in point, looking for touch tones, is different. Touch tones are

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-27 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 26, 2008, at 18:37, Ben Scott wrote: A Google search for sox dtmf seems like it might be useful for your first example. Good idea. I found a script that uses sox's band pass filter to find DTMF's that I could hack to return time values. It's horribly inefficient but I have

High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list. I'm curious if anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio editing language. I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings. For example, I want to take a recorded phone call (that I've made with an asterisk script

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
Bill McGonigle wrote: I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list. I'm curious if anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio editing language. I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings. For example, I want to take a recorded phone call (that I've made

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Arc Riley
You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special language? On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list. I'm curious if anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Drew Van Zandt
PROTECTED] wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list. I'm curious if anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio editing language. I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings. For example, I want to take a recorded phone call (that I've made

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:41 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: (That should in no way be construed as dislike of Python; it's language bigotry that is foolish. Python is unlikely to be the best language ever written, 10,000 years from now.) It is probably not the best language ever written even

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 26, 2008, at 15:35, Arc Riley wrote: You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special language? Domain specific first class data-types would be the best reason. Think series computation in Haskell. But I could probably get the work done with a general-purpose

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings. I thought of sox(1) when I read this. While it isn't an HLL (and thus is not what you asked for), I think it may be of help. And one could argue that the Unix