An Audio Thing

Seventh

I figured I would write this here instead of sending it to Daniel because he is going to the Kentucky Derby or something. Plus I got pretty good feedback from the lasts posts so that was cool.

I have spent this week trying to get the scrubbing/searching interaction right. Right now I am…

Sixth

This is the first of these that is actually written directly in Medium & is probably the first that makes sense in this context.

Daniel is at ~20 hours which is what we set out to do the first leg of the project. I think I have enough to start working on the actual edit interaction which is…

Fifth

Ok Daniel has been working on designs last week and I figured I would show them to you. These are basically wireframes/WIP and represent a couple different concepts.

Fourth

Ok so I found someone who is brilliant and looked into the speech stuff and it seems possible but will take him a couple months to implement. Currently the library does it after the fact and it takes ~30 minutes for an hour recording (why a computer needs to take 30 minutes to do anything BLOWS MY MIND)

Third

Okay I have started thinking of this as more “audio essays” or “audio diaries” than podcasts. This helps things feel less fruitless. I still think they will be ramblings edited down significantly into highlights.

Second

Didn’t get much done except letting you pan around the audio file as well today. Video attached. This marks the end of the work of me implementing a custom ScrollView which is great and I can move on to actual editing features.