/dictation-helper

Simple utility to improve dictation workflow

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Dictation Helper

Screenshot

This utility is a combination of an audio player and a text editor. Keyboard shortcuts are provided to control playback of the audio player while typing. The audio player contains the A-B points functionality to make it easier to repeat a sentence over and over again.

Key Features

  • keyboard shortcuts for forward, backward, play/pause
  • A-B loop
  • insert A-B loop timestamps to editor

Dependencies

The following packages are required to build this program:

  • Qt4 or Qt5
  • cmake

This program uses mplayer as its audio player. You need to have mplayer installed to run this program.

Building

Open the source directory in a terminal and type the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Known Issues

  • seeking is not accurate for video files (e.g. mp4)

Acknowledgement

This project uses qmpwidget, written by Jonas Gehring, to interface with mplayer.

License

This work is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. See COPYING for details.