Have you already seen balloonguy's interactive audio tool? I was telling them that I wouldn't mind having parallel text, but then I realized it would be troublesome because as I think you'd agree, there are other ways to integrate. Personally my main goal is to keep the blocks of text looking just as they would 'raw', so I wouldn't be happy with 'interlaced' J/E that way.
More like, since balloonguy's tool uses Firefox, perhaps we could do something like Google has for translations, where the original (or in this case translation) shows like a tooltip over designated areas. Though I'd want this to be hotkey activated or something because there'd be a lot of hovering and clicking for the interactive audio stuff. In fact, with those texts already done, I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a way to do such a thing...
See threads '.cue sheets for video' and 'tool for interactive... ' for more. Or: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid96258 - My main goal, as mentioned in the 'totally innocent books' thread, at the moment is to simply get more interactive audio texts made, though obviously 'interlacing' in some fashion with translations could be a part of that process. 'My friend' is going to be working on two totally innocent 'shadow bound' book projects first, before working on public domain stuff... also, personally I'm only interested in going for breadth rather than depth, that is to say, many swaths of text (or many sets of several pages, etc.) rather than entire books.
Also keep in mind we can now use RhinoSpike to get native audio with pretty much any text, within reason, no?
More like, since balloonguy's tool uses Firefox, perhaps we could do something like Google has for translations, where the original (or in this case translation) shows like a tooltip over designated areas. Though I'd want this to be hotkey activated or something because there'd be a lot of hovering and clicking for the interactive audio stuff. In fact, with those texts already done, I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a way to do such a thing...
See threads '.cue sheets for video' and 'tool for interactive... ' for more. Or: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid96258 - My main goal, as mentioned in the 'totally innocent books' thread, at the moment is to simply get more interactive audio texts made, though obviously 'interlacing' in some fashion with translations could be a part of that process. 'My friend' is going to be working on two totally innocent 'shadow bound' book projects first, before working on public domain stuff... also, personally I'm only interested in going for breadth rather than depth, that is to say, many swaths of text (or many sets of several pages, etc.) rather than entire books.
Also keep in mind we can now use RhinoSpike to get native audio with pretty much any text, within reason, no?
Edited: 2010-04-09, 2:48 am