spyrettaleivaditi / speaking_clock_halloween

Speaking clock

Project Dependencies

For your own convenience we have provided a requirements.txt file with all the required dependencies. You can install them by running

pip install -r requirements.txt

Instructions

> How to run

1. create recording
2. install dependencies
3. run flask run open browser from the provided link http://127.0.0.1:5000/
4. In the browser, to listen the local time, just push the play button
5. In the browser, to listen a specific time you wish, press the white field and select the time and timezone by using the selectors.

Recordings

For GDPR reasons we will not share the recordings of our voice talent, however we will share full instructions on the process of acquiring the recordings:

> Recordings reproduction

For the recordings production we used:

1. Audacity software (mono sound, 44100Hz, wav file)
2. Yeti microphone (Blue Yeti Blackout)
3. Noise cancelling cylinder
4. Macbook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)

> Line-scripts of the recordings

We recorded our voice talent saying the following:

• For the number part of hours and minutes: All numbers from 1 - 59
• For special times cases like (12:00 am, 9:00 am, 12:30 pm, and 6:00 pm), he read :
  • 12:00 am : AAAA, Hi I am casper do you wanna be my friend?
  • 9:00 am : It’s time to work!
  • 12:30 pm : It’s half past I am hungry!
  • 6:00 pm : It’s beer o’clock
• For edge cases like: o'clock, quarter past, quarter to and half past, he read:
  • It’s 10 o’clock
  • It’s quarter past 10
  • It’s quarter to 10
  • It's half past 10
• For normal time eg, 3:10 or 2:50, he read:
  • It’s 10 past 3
  • It’s 10 to 3 (the reason we chose to record the words "past" and "to" in a sentence and not isolated was to make them sound more natural)

> Split recordings into tracks:

For splitting recordings into tracks we used the Audacity Software We followed the following process Easily split large audio files into tracks with Audacity tracks as .wav files with the following structure:

• The_clock_recordings
  • Original wav files (folder with the original tracks)
  • Tracks (folder with the splitted tracks)
    • Numbers (numbers that are going to be used to pronounce the hours and the minutes)
    • Sentences (special times cases)
    • Glue_words (it’s, past, quarter, o'clock etc that glue the time and give the final format of the recording of edge and normal time cases.)

> Naming formatting of WAV files

• Numbers: “number_1.wav”, “number_2.wav” etc.
• Special sentences:
  • beer_1.wav
  • casper_1.wav
  • hungry_1.wav
  • scream.wav
  • time_to_work.wav
• Glue sentences:
  • Half_past.wav
  • It’s.wav
  • oclock.wav
  • Past.wav
  • quarter_past.wav
  • Quarter_to.wav
  • to_.wav

Contact

• Judith Baumann ([email protected] )
• Spyretta Leivaditi ([email protected], [email protected])
• Kirsten Wildenburg ([email protected] )

License

CC BY-NC-SA