5 Menu Project

Contains commands to create new projects, open a project from the list of known projects or close a project. These projects must reside in the SpeechRecorder directory in the user’s home directory. A project can only be opened if no other project is open. The Export command packs a project archive in a zip-archive file. The Import command unpacks a project in a zip-archive file. The project will be deployed in the project directory.

The Preferences... command opens a dialog window with the tabs Project, Speakers, Recording,Playback, Control,Prompting and Logging.


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Figure 6Settings > Project... command

The Project tab (fig. 6) presents the project name, optional UUID and optional description. The purpose of the UUID is to distinguish different projects with the same name in the future.

The Speakers tab contains the location of the speaker database. This database can be stored in the project directory, or any other accessible location in the local file system.

The Recording tab allows the user to set the recording parameters. The tab has the subtabs Device, Channel routing, Format and Options. In the Device tab (fig. 7) you can select the recording device SpeechRecorder should use for this project. The Channel routing tab it is possible to specify arbitrary connections between recording device cahnnels and output file channels. This is only necessary for advanced recording setups. The sample rate, quantization, byte order, encoding, number of channels can be chosen in the Format tab. In the Options tab you can set parameters whether repeated recordings of an item overwrite previous ones or are stored as versions, the default progress mode, resetting the level meter for every recording, default values for pre- and postrecording phases, the location for the recorded audio files and advanced options for seamless recording in autorecord mode and the recording target. Recording target DIRECT stores the captured audio data directly to the final audio (wav) file. TEMP_RAW stores first to a temporary file and if recording has stopped converts the audio data to the final audio file. TEMP_RAW is recommended if you store your recordings to a network file system if the throughput is not sufficient to store realtime audio data.


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Figure 7Settings > Project... > Recording > Device dialog window

The Prompting tab contains other tabs to edit the type of start stop signal (the traffic light), select fonts, their style and size for prompt, instructions and comment texts, the location of the recording script file, default value for prompt autoplay (audio prompts), customizing the speaker window, project settings for the script item generator and playback device settings for audio prompts.