[Vorbis] lyrics/transcripts (was brainfart #67453 - hyper-index)

[Arc Riley]

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We have a text-phrase codec called Writ in early implementation state
which can be used to supply this functionality and much, much more.

A short use of it's functions include song lyrics, speech transcripts,
text subtitles, chat (input provided through another system) along with
streaming radio/video, or childrens audio/video books..

Currently, there's reference code in the py-ogg2 package and KarlH has
added support for it in his Icecast branch for streaming support.  There
is no player support yet, tho I'm working on a GUI tool for adding Writ
to an existing Ogg stream right now.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:16:44PM -0700, O Si Yo wrote:
>
> also, to enhance this function and such uses.. years
> back I suggested adding support for imbedding text
> fields for lyrics and transcripts.
>
> For songs, having the lyrics imbedded in the ogg file
> would make it easily searchable.  If you recall a few
> words of the song, you can quickly find the song
> itself.  Same with the transcript of a talk.  If you
> remember the words you wish to locate, somewhere in a
> 3 hours speech, it again would be easily searchable
> and with the transcribed words linked to their place
> in the audio file, one could scan the transcript, then
> click on a word to jump to replay the audio from that
> point.
>
> I just discovered 2 days ago that mp3 specs have been
> expanded to include lyrics3 tags that can in fact be
> time stamped, to facilitate a karaoke style video
> output.  If this can be used for large transcripts as
> well, it would be a boon for presentations that would
> allow the blind to listen while allowing the deaf to
> read the text being scrolled in time on a video
> display.
>
> I just re-subscribed to this list so am not at all
> upto date on current project status and direction.
> Does ogg have anything like the mp3 lyrics3 tags
> implemented or planned?