Thread: [Announce] Orecchiette - an all-purpose audio recording app
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2013-09-04 , 08:43
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Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
Any updates?
I am quite embarrassed that I disappeared before adding the much-requested filename management to the app, so I'm hoping to get an update out with that. But no timeline on when that will happen yet.

Will it be ported to Mer?
I'd love to do it, but I've never ported anything to Mer yet. (I haven't even tried running Mer yet...)

Is it safe to disable-uninstall-purge recaller and use Orechiette for phone-calls recording?
Orecchiette is still very early work! So, I can make no guarantees of how well it will do as an everyday app...

Which sound-recording-and-storage format would you recommend?
I am not an audiophile myself, so I can't say what the best format would be. What I can say, however, is that compressing audio uses up CPU, and I get kinda worried about using a lot of CPU while also on a live phone call. "WAV" format shouldn't be doing any compression of the data, so I normally use that...

Would recaller and Orechiette fight against each other if both had phone-call recording enabled at the same time?
Surprisingly enough, no; we're both using Gstreamer for audio I/O, and Gstreamer is a wonderfully powerful and flexible system. Both should be able to listen to the same Gstreamer source at the same time without stepping on each other's toes.

That said, however, Gstreamer is also extremely CPU-intensive, and I suspect trying to use both apps at once would severely overload the device.

How likely is it that an application could be devised to perform speech recognition on the incoming voice and display results on screen (possibly log them into file for later perusal), while simultaneously using text-to-speech conversion as sound source instead of microphone?
Ah... Wow. I wouldn't want to guess. This sounds way beyond anything I'd be able to cobble together.
 

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