Unix Software for Recording Prose?

Dan Lyke asks: "Friends and I have gotten into reading short stories to each other. I'd like to start recording these. There are tons of decent audio recording apps out there for music and sound effects, but what I really want is something more oriented around recording prose; organize a longer recording session into sequences of "takes", with the edit decision list made in mostly real time (ie: that sentence was good, or re-take from the last checkpoint). A prototype is only a few tens of lines of wrapper code around one of the command line recorders, but I'd rather be building on other's efforts. Anyone out there got suggestions for Un*x recording apps centered around spoken word and prose?"

Comments

Re:Recording audio is recording audio...

[stubear]

Ummm...if the audio app has a waveform disaply you can find the pauses quite easily. Throw in real-time scrubbing and it's nearly idiot proof. Speech recognition would only overcomplicate a fairly simple process.

Easier solution

[billcopc]

Here's the lazy solution: just email the stories to each other and run them through the M$ speech synthesizer for fun. Then you don't have to worry about doing re-takes.

But seriously, any half-decent recording software will let you do this. Whether it's prose, or rap, or a bunch of powder-nosed sampler whores that need 42 takes to get each line right, the machine doesn't care what your voice sounds like. It's going to take whatever you dare input through the mic, and let you edit until your ears bleed. Sound forge, Cool Edit.. heck there are others but those are my faves.

Now tell me more about these short stories ? Typically the only short stories I'd share with my buddies are the ones involving alcohol, drugs and gratuitous sex =)