readlongs

Audiobook alignment for North American Indigenous languages

end product

The concept is a web application with a series of stages of processing, which ultimately leads to a time-aligned audiobook - i.e. a package of:

• SMIL file describing time alignments
• TEI file describing text
• Audio file (WAV or MP3)

Which can be loaded using the read-along JavaScript component.

Optionally a book can be generated as a standalone HTML page or as an ePub file.

1. (optional) Pre-segment inputs, consisting of:
   • Single audio file
   • Text with page markings (assume paragraph breaks = pages)
2. Input pages: each page consists of
   • Image file
   • Audio file
   • Text
3. Run alignment
4. View output and download components

roadmap

• MVP app:
  • Single page (image, audio, text)
  • Select language (crl or atj for now)
  • Run alignment and launch read-along app with output

running the web app

1. pip install -e .
2. python
3. >>> from readalongs.app import app
4. app.run()

generating an ePub

1. pip install -e .
2. readalongs_align --output-xhtml XMLFILE WAVFILE OUTPUTNAME
3. readalongs_create_epub OUTPUTNAME.smil OUTPUTNAME.epub