Thanks very much Robert. Did you write them? I have by no means explored them
all yet, but looking forward to doing so.
Andrew
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From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Robert Hänggi
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2020 7:24 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: How to check the time of each recording
Here's the toolset I use for such tasks.
https://www.dropbox.com/t/3KltEo4jUOIC0cHv
Those are all Nyquist plug-ins.
They use their own text-to-speech mechanism, thus, you need at least one of the
two wav files in the plug-in folder (tts-suite.wav or tts-suite-fast.wav).
After that you can add the tools you want, in your case, tts-start, tts-end and
tts-length.ny.
With all that in the plug-in folder, you have two more steps to do:
1. restart Audacity, go to add/remove plugins under effects/generate or analyze
(doesn't matter) and enable them (those beginning with
tts-)
Depending on which ones you've chosen, they either appear in the tools or the
analyze menu, but now the names all begin with "Report", e.g.
"Report Start".
2. Assign hotkeys to them. It's easiest done if you move to the entry in the
menu and press Shift+Enter. This brings you directly to the keyboard section in
preferences with the command already selected.
I use for instance Alt+J/K/L respectively for start, end and length.
But bear in mind that those shortcuts are already assigned and you have to
decide if you use them on a daily basis.
The times are all spoken in hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.
All unnecessary zeros are stripped off, you could for instance have "one hour,
23 milliseconds".
You might want to enable some of the other tools as well.
For my part, I couldn't for instance live without true peak and rms.
I'm still hoping that Andrew makes a review/tutorial on them...
Best
Robert
On 01/07/2020, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I started fiddling with an AutoHotKey script, which shows some promise.
However, it is almost as convenient to put the NVDA review cursor on
the selection toolbar and ask NVDA to read the line to get the
position. It is a little verbose, but eminently workable. Another
option is to use
control-f6 to get down there and stay there. One can perform many
functions such as play/stop, pause, record and scrub from there.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of David Engebretson Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2020 4:19 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: How to check the time of each recording
Hey Andrew,
So there aren’t any shortcut keys in NVDA to give the audio position?
Just wanted to verify… I couldn’t find any.
The issue I have with needing to press left bracket is that the
leading zero’s are announced and a press of the escape key is needed
to dismiss the audio position dialog
Also, pressing control+f6 then tabbing to the audio position field
takes many keystrokes. Then, if you want to get back into the track
view the quickest way is to press another keystroke (control+shift+f6).
It’s pretty handy to have shortcut keys like the JAWS scriptset
provides. It would be great to see someone tackle the NVDA scripting
to provide similar keystrokes. Do I see any volunteers? *smile*
Peace,
David
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of Andrew
Downie
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 11:06 PM
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: How to check the time of each recording
Hi Michael
For the following, the version of Audacity does not matter. Nor does
it matter which screen reader you are using.
As David said, press the End key to go to the end of the project.
Press the left square bracket key (the one to the right of the p).
That will give you the position. The time can be adjusted but, for
finding the current position you can then press Escape.
If you want to keep track of the time while recording or playing:
Press control-f6 and tab (or shift-tab) to Audio Position. The screen
reader will announce the time repeatedly when recording or playing.
Tab away when you have heard enough time calls.
Andrew
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: How to check the time of each recording
Sure. What version of Audacity are you using? Also, do you use a
screen reader? If so, which screen reader?
If you are using JAWS, the latest JAWS for Audacity scriptset
<https://github.com/campg2j003/JAWS-Script-for-Audacity/releases/downl
oad/rel2.2.2-beta-2020-06-21/Jaws-Script-for-Audacity_2_2_2-beta-2020-
06-21.exe> (6-21-2020), and the latest Audacity (2.4.2), you can
press alt+delete to tell you the current position in an Audacity
project.
Pressing ‘end’ will take you to the end of the audio in a project so,
after that, press alt+delete and you’ll hear the time position of the
end of all the audio in the project.
Another option, assuming you might be interested in the length of a
specific track, is to navigate to the track and press the letter ‘k’
to jump to the end of the audio on that specific track. At that point
you can press
alt+delete to hear the audio position at the end of that specific track.
If you aren’t using the JAWS scriptset then I’m not certain if there
is a shortcut. The easiest way I can think of is to press control+f6
and then tab to the audio position field.
Bestest,
David
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of Michael
Munn
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:21 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [audacity4blind] How to check the time of each recording
Hi all, this is Michael. I'm sending this email just want to ask y'all
a question. Everytime when I finish recording a project, I want to
check how long the recording is. Do any one know a keyboard shortcut
that can give me this information?
Thanks a lot.
Best regards
Michael Munn
