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joseph/audlbls-to-smil.rb

Created October 11, 2013 14:04
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A guileless script for converting Audacity labels to SMIL, with very little configurability.
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audlbls-to-smil.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
file_path = ARGV.shift
base_name = File.basename(file_path, '.txt')
html_file = base_name+'.html'
sound_file = 'audio/'+base_name+'.mp3'
out = %Q`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL"
xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"
version="3.0"
>
<body>
<seq id="id1"
epub:textref="#{html_file}"
epub:type="bodymatter chapter"
>`
File.open(file_path, 'r').each { |line|
row = line.split(/\s+/)
out << %Q`
<par id="#{row[2]}">
<text src="#{html_file}##{row[2]}" />
<audio src="#{sound_file}" clipBegin="#{row[0]}" clipEnd="#{row[1]}" />
</par>
`
}
out << %Q`
</seq>
</body>
</smil>`
puts out
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