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AlPe · 01-20-2016, 04:50 PM

You are welcome.

I strongly suggest you to follow the tutorial along: https://github.com/pettarin/icarus/blob/master/tutorial

Executing aeneas directly "inside" Sigil: you are right, it would be nice. However, it poses two main problems:

1. the user must have the aeneas toolchain installed (the Python aeneas package, ffmpeg and espeak) --- hence the generation of an aeneas ZIP job, that can be uploaded to aenesweb.org by those users unable to install aeneas on their machines;

2. aligning an (audio, text) pair might take from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the length of the audio and the number of fragments. The user will have Sigil "blocked" for that time, as I think there is no way, in the current Sigil plugin architecture, to put the aeneas process in background.

Plus, Sigil is incorporating EPUB3-related features (the next version, v0.9.3, will have "native" support for e.g. editing SMIL files), so I doubt I will work more on the "computing" side until the Sigil infrastructure will be more defined.

01-20-2016, 04:50 PM	#6
AlPe Digital Amanuensis Posts: 727 Karma: 1446357 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Turin, Italy Device: Several eReaders and tablets	You are welcome. I strongly suggest you to follow the tutorial along: https://github.com/pettarin/icarus/blob/master/tutorial Executing aeneas directly "inside" Sigil: you are right, it would be nice. However, it poses two main problems: 1. the user must have the aeneas toolchain installed (the Python aeneas package, ffmpeg and espeak) --- hence the generation of an aeneas ZIP job, that can be uploaded to aenesweb.org by those users unable to install aeneas on their machines; 2. aligning an (audio, text) pair might take from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the length of the audio and the number of fragments. The user will have Sigil "blocked" for that time, as I think there is no way, in the current Sigil plugin architecture, to put the aeneas process in background. Plus, Sigil is incorporating EPUB3-related features (the next version, v0.9.3, will have "native" support for e.g. editing SMIL files), so I doubt I will work more on the "computing" side until the Sigil infrastructure will be more defined.