daisy/obi

Obi is an open source audio book production tool that produces digital talking books (DTBs) conforming to DAISY 3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86), DAISY 2.02 and Accessible EPUB 3 standards. It is easy to learn, highly accessible, and powerful navigable audio book production tool that enables anybody to produce accessible and rich content with minimal amount of training.

obi's Issues

Update Chinese culture codes for .net 4

Update Chinese culture codes for taking benefit of more options provided by dotnet 4.

Add predefined keyboard shortcuts profile for Vision Australia

Add predefined keyboard shortcuts profile for Vision Australia

Provide an optional peak meter in the main Obi window

The existing peak meter in a separate window is useful for low vision users, at the same time it also blocks the view of content view especially when users work with Obi's maximized window. Therefore users should be provided an option to have a smaller peak meter in the main Obi window.

User should not need to select specific language-country combination for changing the language of UI

Currently user need to select specific language-country code in user profile preferences to change language of Obi, for example French-france, it should change by using only the language code for example French.

If the background color of live recording waveform panel was changed, white patches were seen when a part of panel was selected and then deselected.

Steps:

Load VA-insert profile. It wil change the background color of live recording waveform.
Start recording while live waveform panel is visible
select a part of live waveform
De-select it by clicking somewhere.
You will observe that the selected part becomes white.

Implement comments for Todo phrases to facilitate editing

Users should be able to add comments to To do phrases to provide a hint for audio editors or narrators. e.g. narrator may had done a mistake and he/she wants to indicate that the phrase has error. Or proof reading staff wants to indicate that the phrase needs precise editing.

Add option to auto play the recorded phrase when recording stops

In audio preferences, add option to auto play the recorded phrase when recording stops

Elapse back misbehave if the playback phrase is different from the selected phrase

Steps:

->Select 1st phrase of the section.
->Give play all command
-> When audio cursor reaches 4th phrase, press 'x' (preview upto command).
->Use 'e' (elapse back) multiple times.
You will observe that the cursor jumps from playback phrase to the selected phrase, skipping all phrase in between.

Incorporate Spanish translation updates

Incorporate Spanish translation updates

In auto page creation feature, add option to create only one page, at end of section.

In auto page creation feature, add option to create only one page, at end of section.

Requested by Vision Australia

For making recording from TOC view simple, provide an option to use single key shortcuts in TOC view

For making recording from TOC view really simple, add an option to use single key shortcuts in TOC view. It is recommended to use 'r' for starting recording and 't' for stopping recording.

Feature requested by Vision Australia.

In DAISY 2.02 export, Add padding if time in audioclips has less than 3 decimal places

In DAISY 2.02 export, Add padding if time in audioclips has less than 3 decimal places. It is required for older DAISY players that expect exactly 3 decimal places.

Add new feature to create pages automatically.

A new dialog box should receive the following inputs from the user:

• Minimum gap between pages
• Section index to start page numbers
• Generate TTS fr pages or fill them with silence.

With these inputs the pages are created for the whole section. This feature is for the books that do not have pages in print equivalent, like novels.

Requested by Vision Australia

If duration of book went above 24 hours, the time was corrupted in some regional languages.

If duration of book went above 24 hours, the time was corrupted in the languages that use comma instead of dot for decimal.

submitted by DAISY France.

Improved error messages for input and output audio drivers in Audio Preferences.

If audio drivers are not detected by audio preferences, an exception is thrown. Instead of exception a messagebox should inform user about the problem.

If there is an empty section with empty phrases then in multi section operations dialog play button changes to pause and remains in pause state

If there is an empty section with empty phrases then in multi section operations dialog play button changes to pause and remains in pause state though there is nothing to play.

Incorporate localization update for French.

Incorporate localization update for French.

pipeline jobs fail if path contain non western characters

If the path parameters to pipeline transformers contains non western characters e.g. chinese or hindi characters, pipeline job fails. Workaround: Place all the directories and files to be used by pipeline-lite in a place where there are no non western characters in paths.

The issue is in Pipeline-lite, which is not developed further. So, it could not be fixed in current integration with Pipeline-lite. If users on native language Windows OS face this issue, then then can create export directory with English name and place it in the root.

Add a new option to allow only section deletion warning, while warnings for other section commands are not invoked

Some users find the warnings invoked by section editing commands time consuming. Therefore a new option is added to invoke only one warning, for deletion of the section.

Exception thrown when section properties is opened for last section

Steps:

-> Move to the last section in TOC view
-> Press alt + enter to invoke section properties dialog.
-> You will observe the null exception

Incorporate Portuguese language update

Incorporate Portuguese language update

Incorporate Finnish translation updates

Incorporate Finnish translation updates.

Incorporate localization update for Portuguese.

Incorporate localization update for Portuguese.

Add option to import old NCC files with windows 1252 encoding

By default Obi imports NCC files with UTF 8 encoding, but if NCC files with older Windows 1252 encoding are imported, then some characters are distorted. So, an option should be added to project preferences to use Windows 1252 encoding for importing such old files.

In multi sections operations dialog, append the page numbers to section names.

In multi sections operations dialog, append the pages in a section, to the respective section name in the list view.

Requested by DAISY France

Sometimes the audio cursor keeps on moving in a single phrase while the playback has reached the following phrases.

Give play section command and perform very rapid operations like continuous split. Sometimes it is observed that cursor keeps on moving in the same phrase although the playback has moved to phrases ahead.

Add option to merge 1st two phrases after recording with phrase detection

In audio preferences, add option to merge 1st two phrases after recording with phrase detection. It will synchronize the behavior of apply phrase detection feature with the live phrase detection that works along with recording.

XML files created for profiles in .NET 4/VS 2010 cannot be loaded in Windows XP and Windows 7 SP1

XML files created for profiles in .NET 4/VS 2010 cannot be loaded in Windows XP and Windows 7 SP1

Ocasional Crash in VS when we do merge all sections.

Do merge all sections in project. Status message says" Selected phrase 0 of 0 in CV(1.78 seconds)".
Go to section menu press insert section. Crash in VS.

if (selectionValue == null !selectionValue.Node.IsRooted?)

Here selectionValue. Node is Null.

In some localizations, the name of profile is not shown in the title bar.

In some localizations, the name of profile is not shown in the title bar.

Names of export directories should be in English even if Obi is switched to non-english language

Pipeline-lite has a known limitation that it fails to work if the file path has non-English characters.
To avoid this issue, the export directories names should be changed to English names in all localization.

Incorporate the German translations in Obi

Incorporate the German translations from excel files in Obi

In section properties dialog, show the list of page numbers in a section

show the list of page numbers present in a section in Section properties.

Add shortcut Ctrl+F12 for project properties in VA-Shortcuts profile.

Add shortcut Ctrl+F12 for project properties in VA-Shortcuts profile.

Incorporate French translation updates

Incorporate French translation updates

The waveform in zoom waveform panel scrolls when undo command is executed

The waveform in zoom waveform panel scrolls when undo command is executed. The user has to scroll the waveform again to see cursor or selection.

submitted by Vision Australia.

The state of "Preserve zoom in" check box should be saved on closing zoom panel

The state of "Preserve zoom in" check box should be saved on closing zoom panel

In auto generate pages feature, starting section index was not working properly with sub sections.

In auto generate pages feature, starting section index was not working properly with sub sections.

Make the comboboxes of first time configuration dialog non-editable

Make the combo boxes of first time configuration dialog non-editable.

Backup file should be created every 2 hours even if the user does not select auto-back at time interval specified in project preferences.

This is important safety net so backup at interval of 2 hrs should be always active.

Improve performance of Auto generate pages feature

Improve performance of Auto generate pages feature

Elapse in section gave wrong time if there was an empty phrase before the selected phrase.

Elapse in section gave wrong time if there was an empty phrase before the selected phrase.

On high resolution screens, zoom resets when recording starts.

If resolution of screens is high and Obi is operated with zoom-in. The recording resets the size of empty pages that follow the recording phrase.

Submitted by Vision Australia.

Installer: give a choice for application menu and desktop shortcuts

By default the installer creates shortcuts on the desktop and in the application menu. It is more polite to ask the user first.

To prevent performance issues, limit the number of screens that the users can scroll through mouse wheel at a time.

Reduce the scroll interval for mouse wheel scrolling. If the user rotates the mouse wheel too much, obi tries to jump multiple screens which puts a lot of load on the user interface.

List box in collect special phrases should expand when dialog box is expanded

List box in collect special phrases should expand when dialog box is expanded. It will provide better visibility for sections with long names.

In EPUB 3, add Media Overlays to Navigation Document for enabling TOC playback

IN EPUB 3, add an option to add Media Overlays to the Navigation Document to play heading phrase while navigating in the TOC.It is similar to TOC playback behavior of DAISY NCX.

Incorporate localization update for German.

Incorporate localization update for German.

When To do is marked, preserved the cursor time also

Preserve the time also when To do is marked, explained as follows:

• If playback is in stop state and there is no selection on the phrase, then mark To do as earlier.
• If playback is paused or there is audio selection then preserve the time when To do is marked.
• If the time is preserved then the selection cursor should highlight the time mark, when the navigate to To do phrase is used.

Exception thrown by shift+V when playback phrase is not the selected phrase

Steps:

-> Select 1st phrase of section and give play all command.
-> press single key shortcuts [ followied by ] to select a part of phrase.
-> Allow playback to continue to next phrases.
-> Pres shift+v.
Exception will be thrown.