This page is a draft description / to-do list for my 1st application "voicenote"
Voicenote 0.4
Presentation
Voicenote is a script which allows to record any sound from the microphone into a wav file. It can play the created files too. It is intended to be an easy and quick way to do so.
It is based on the arecord / aplay librairy and use the alsactl to change the audio scenario ( /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/voip-handset.state restore is used) .
It uses zenity as a basic graphical gui.
Installation
Dependencies
You need zenity and alsa-utils-aplay to make it work.
OM
So to install it, you can do :
opkg install http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/zenity_2.20.1-r0_armv4t.ipk alsa-utils-aplay http://www.opkg.org/packages/voicenote_0.4_arm.ipk
SHR
You have to install some more librairies :
opkg -force-depends install http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/libgnomecanvas-2-0_2.20.0-r0_armv4t.ipk http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/libgailutil18_1.20.0-r0_armv4t.ipk http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/libnotify_0.4.4-r0_armv4t.ipk
Then
opkg install http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/zenity_2.20.1-r0_armv4t.ipk alsa-utils-aplay http://www.opkg.org/packages/voicenote_0.4_arm.ipk
Debian base distributions
I have not made a package yet. So if you want to try it, you have to use the script alone :
apt-get install zenity alsa-utils-aplay
cd ~
wget http://kimaidou.kilu.de/openmoko/voicenote/voicenote
chmod +x voicenote
To launch it, do
cd ~
./voicenote
Using voicenote
- Just click on the desktop icon
called "Voicenote" to load the software
- Then you have to choose between recording or playing a voice note (a wav file). When finished recording or playing, you go back to this first window. Click "Cancel" to quit the application.
- For now the wav files are saved with a "voicenote_" prefix and the date and time (YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MI). For example: voicenote_2009-02-20_12-34.wav means a this voice note has been recorded at 12:34 the 20th of feb 2009.
Changelog
2009-03-09 - v0.4
- Added the seconds to each wav file name, eg "voicenote_2009-02-20_12-34-58.wav"
- Repackaged so that it is not broken in opkg.org repository
- Changed /usr/share/voicenote.desktop file = removed "Office" category, so that only one icon appears on the desktop
2009-02-25 - v0.3
- Now you can play the wav files from Voicenote
- You go back to the 1st choice window after recording or playing a file. To quit the software, click on the button "Cancel".
2009-02-24 - v0.2
2nd version:
- GPL license added
- the user can select the wave files destination folder at the first startup (and then modify it in the file ~/.voicenote/voicenote.cfg
- the wave file is now recorded in mono at 8000 kHz (which saves a lot of CPU and bytes)
- addition of comments in the script
- the script is called "voicenote", and not anymore "voicenote.sh"
2009-02-19 - v0.1
initial version
Future improvements / To do list
- add the GPS date and time information (+/- latitude and longitude) so that each wav file can be used for OpenStreetMap mapping.
- improve the quality of the sound
- add a README text file
- package it for debian
- allow the user to choose the microphone source (headset or handset)
- allow the user to choose the state file for playing the wave files.
- enable job control (set -m in th script)
- more language
- replace zenity by a real frontend as EFL ?