[Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)

Wed Mar 23 09:54:09 GMT 2011

OK, we've installed it...

On 23 March 2011 08:43, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can you install tortoise svn?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> Sent: 23 March 2011 08:43
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>
> Sorry to be thick, but I can't work out how to download the dirtectory
> or where to put it. I've tried right-clicking and saving on individual
> files, but that doesn't work for files such as ffmpeg.exe. I gather
> there is something called an SVN client, but whatever it is, I'm sure
> I won't be allowed to install one at work.
>
> And where do I put this directory, if I do manage to download everything?
>
> Any shortcuts or tips for non/semi-geeks?
>
>
>
> On 22 March 2011 22:10, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> you need the whole directory, not just the rlo file.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne [simonbarne at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 22 March 2011 17:09
>> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>>
>> Thank you for that. However, when I preview chunker.rlo (as shown in the
>> tutorial) I don't get the buttons to the left of "Step 1: Select a piece of
>> media". I've tried it both at work and at home.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>> Sent: 21 March 2011 2:19 PM
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>>
>> Check out the xerte svn and you'll find chunker.rlo in
>> templates\mediaInteractions\src. Run it - you'll have to install Xerte.
>>
>> See the attached tutorial. Basically you load up a piece of media, load up,
>> paste in or write some text. Break it into the chunks you want (if these are
>> sentences it can split it on '.'s.)
>>
>> Play the media, press space to indicate the beginning of each chunk.
>>
>> It never quite got finished the way I'd like it, so use at your own risk -
>> but it works well enough. You might still need some fine tuning.
>>
>> J
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>> Sent: 21 March 2011 14:08
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>>
>> Could I ask again about this? I would like to make Dictations and Drag
>> and Drop Words interactivities with the Media
>> Interactions template, but don't know how to break the associated
>> transcript up into chunks.
>>
>>
>> On 14 March 2011 16:25, Patrick Lockley
>> <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry - the people who use it here have a Xerte chunking tool. When Julian
>> gets back I can ask whats best to do with this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a chunking tool in the Xerte Online Toolkits template which
>> should paste over if you want to give that a try
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>>> Sent: 14 March 2011 13:15
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template
>> (XOT)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a Media Interactions template in XOT, but no chunking tool that I
>> can see.
>>>
>>> Can anyone clarify how to break the transcript up into chunks by adding
>> code?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 March 2011 14:33, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Julian started on something:
>>>
>>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/xerte/source/browse/trunk/templates/mediaInteractio
>> ns/src/chunker.rlo?r=301
>>>
>>> Is there a templates/mediainteractions menu in XOT (been a long time).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > From: simonbarne at gmail.com
>>>
>>> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>
>>> > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:27:30 +0000
>>>
>>> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template
>> (XOT)
>>> >
>>> > Yes - and added the tags by hand.
>>> >
>>> > If there is a chunking tool, where is it?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
>> Lockley
>>> > Sent: 12 March 2011 12:43 PM
>>> > To: Xerte discussion list
>>> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template
>> (XOT)
>>> >
>>> > Did you paste the text in - i thought there was a chunking tool?
>>> > ________________________________________
>>> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> > [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>>> > [simonbarne at gmail.com]
>>> > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:27 PM
>>> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> > Subject: [Xerte] Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>>> >
>>> > To make a Dictation or a Drag and Drop Words interactivity from the
>> Media
>>> > Interactions template, apparently you need to break up the transcript of
>> a
>>> > recording into chunks. I found an example in an old post in this mailing
>>> > list:
>>> >
>>> > <chunk s="3" e="6">here is a chunk of transcript</chunk>
>>> >
>>> > I guessed the "s" was the starting point and the "e" the ending point of
>>> > the chunk in seconds, so I broke up my transcript like this:
>>> >
>>> > <chunk s="1" e="13">Blah blah</chunk>
>>> > <chunk s="13" e="28"> Blah blah blah</chunk>
>>> > <chunk s="28" e="40">and so on</chunk>
>>> >
>>> > I still can't get either activity to work. The sound (an MP3 file) plays
>> for
>>> > only a moment. The whole transcript, not the first chunk, is very
>> briefly
>>> > highlighted in yellow. No randomised words appear in the Drag and Drop
>> Words
>>> > activity.
>>> >
>>> > Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Is there documentation anywhere?
>>> >
>>> >
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