Recording audio and video directly into TiddlyWiki?

[si]

Just wondered if there are any tools out there that I am not aware of?

Currently I record audio in Audacity and then import it in or create a canonical_uri, but it would be nice to find an approach that has fewer steps.

[Altug Ozcelikkale]

Hi Si, 

I am not aware of any current solution but just wanted to chime in and say I would be interested in having something like that too.

My impression from the existing TW plugins is that if there is a standalone js library for achieving something, there is generally a good chance that it can be integrated with TW. 

... and I just checked and there are actually at least a few js libraries that can record audio. Here is a library that seems somewhat current and lightweight...

https://github.com/Kagami/vmsg

Now, I don't have enough js knowledge to do this wizardry myself (yet... getting there...) but there may be someone in the forum who is interested in working on this.

I didn't touch the video recording part. However, that would be cool as well.

Another direction that I find interesting is whether the audio could be transcribed and converted to a tiddler automatically. I realize this is a higher hanging fruit, but could be very useful for notetaking.

Anyway, these are my two cents.

Take care,

-Altug

[TW Tones]

Some thoughts on this;

• Recording to tiddler, then exporting it to an audio file, such that it can be externalised would be wise, because audio files can grow too big to be included in a single file wiki.
• Server implementations may do this differently but we should always design such that a solution is also effective in standalone wikis.
• Subsequent tools to allow tiddlers to be "annotated" with audio recordings similar to the comments solution would be good.

Regards

Tones

[TW Tones]

Also,

If we can more readily use audio more in tiddlywiki it would be nice to have an action widget that could play such audio according to a desired trigger. Thus buttons and tiddlers could have small audio prompts. It would wise to also have a toggle that can mute all audio for the wiki.

Tones

[TiddlyTweeter]

Cioa si

... it would be nice to find an approach that has fewer steps.

Its an interesting question which could be answered several ways. 

In my own case I use TWs that have access to the OS via launching Windows batch files (supported in Bob, the previous version of Timmimi saver, TiddlyDesktop etc). The wiki launches a batch command to the appropriate software to do the business and passes to it parameters on what to do.

Probably not what you were looking for :-). But works. Allows me to keep methods I already use BUT control them directly from TW. Simplifies a lot.

Best wishes

TT