User should be able to see a waveform representation of non-spoken audio

maboa commented 5 years ago

Although transcripts usually represent the spoken word, there are situations where the user may want to comment on sounds that are not spoken (vehicles, explosions etc)

Programs like Youtube-dl allows download of YouTube audio and BBC Waveform produces waveform data given a piece of audio which using a custom font we can then represent as a waveform with the same properties of text.

We should consider the following:

Do we have a volume threshold below which we don't represent audio as a waveform?
Can we include intuitive ways of allowing the user to decide how much screen estate the waveform takes up?

piotrfonte commented 5 years ago

@Laurian you may as well style these passages with other a font different from the transcript, and I’ll make sure to replace it with an iconfont afterwards.

maboa commented 5 years ago

To finish this we'll need wave data from Keep, but I think we should be able to fake this for now.

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User should be able to see a waveform representation of non-spoken audio #161