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<p>My Not 4 died a few weeks ago, and I had to get a new phone. My old recording app is no longer available, so I have to find a new one. My normal routine is to record the dialog, with my own lines being spoken softly after a brief pause. That way I can speak over my own dialog, but listen if I don't remember it.</p>
<p>The features my old app had, included the sound showing as an oscilloscope trace during playback. During playback, you could swipe the graph back to repeat a section you just heard. And there was basic editing; cut-paste, change volume of selection. </p>
<p>Currently I am trying out Audio Evolution by eXtreme Software. Available for Android and iOS. It does much of what I want, and add multi-track recording, plus MIDI tracks. I am just getting started with it, so the learning curve is going to be a frustration for a while. The demo is limited to 2-min. Costs $8 USD to purchase, with some features requiring an additional purchase.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">My Ideal app;</span></p>
<p>I have been imaging what my ideal practice app would be. If I ever pursed the unlikely idea of writing something myself. I would want the following features;</p>
<p><strong>Two Tracks; </strong> While recording dialog, a button press would indicate if the recording should go to main voices track, or your own voice track. Then, during playback you can control the volume of the two tracks. The track with your own character offers the option of pausing for a few seconds every time the dialog changes to it. This gives you a moment to figure out, "Oops I should say something"</p>
<p><strong>Imported Music track;</strong> Since some dialog is with music and must be timed to the music, there is the option of importing a 3rd track, with Audio or MIDI music. Playback speed can be adjusted.</p>
<p><strong>Listed and recognize your own spoken dialog.</strong> This would be an advanced option. But, it might not need to do true speech recognition. Rather, it would use a rough profile of the amplitude of the sound coming in to the microphone now, and attempt to match it to the amplitude profile of the prior recording. So, this may allow it to follow along, and then say the next character's line after you are finished speaking your part. If you pause too long, it might say "cue", and then also listed if you say "line", and then play your line, then pause for your to repeat it. If you say, "go back" it goes back one line and starts again. If you say "Go back 3 lines" it does likewise.</p>
<p>As an aside, getting a new phone used to be exciting. But, now it is always with dread. No removable batteries, so a $9 DIY job is now a $60-to-$90 job, that requires several hours if your time if do it locally, or sending your phone out-of-town. And some of the newest phones omit the headphone jack. But the USB-C headphones standard is such that some USB-C headphones will work with some phones, and other will be incompatible. The more they try to make USB a standard, the more it morphs into a hydra, with many heads.</p>
<p>Any other app suggestions?</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Joe Dunfee<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">717-203-8670 Cell</span></span></p>
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