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

Wed Mar 23 10:04:30 GMT 2011

All right, I get the hint. I'll read the -ing manual...

On 23 March 2011 09:54, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK, now check out the source code from the 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 09:54
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Transcript chunks in Media Interactions template (XOT)
>
> 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.
>>>
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>>> 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
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>>> 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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