Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27:
As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in .ogg format.
In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine
Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc
I would like to get the communities feedback on this.
Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format?
Nemo
Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature:
WAVWAVEform audio format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV (WAV) is a Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft and IBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM audio file format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_format for storing audio on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows systems for raw audio storage. The WAV format is most commonly used with an uncompressed, lossless storage method (pulse-code modulation) resulting in comparatively large audio files. Today, the WAV audio format is no longer popular being superseded by other more efficient means of audio storage.^[19] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#cite_note-19
from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#...
So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well.
The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge this correctly. Again, is .wav really so popular, that it justifies the effort?
All the best, Sebastian
Am 10.04.2013 19:40, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27:
As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in .ogg format.
In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine
Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc
I would like to get the communities feedback on this.
Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format?
Nemo
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On 10/04/13 02:22 PM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature:
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from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#...
So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well.
The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge this correctly. Again, is .wav really so popular, that it justifies the effort?
All the best, Sebastian
wav, being lossless and uncompressed, is popularly used as a 'staging format' by many varieties of software. It is likely Rahul is interested in using wav because that is the raw output codec of an existing js recording library, and so the script would not need to further process the data.
I believe you might guess from the wav standard being included in the wikibook on FOSS Open Standards that while the standard is maintained by Microsoft and IBM, it is not encumbered by licenses for writing tools to use it.
On the other hand, Commons does not currently allow wav files. "On Wikimedia Commons, the file types we accept are: Ogg (using FLAC, Speex, Opus or Vorbis codecs), WebM (using Vorbis), or MIDI (with extension .mid)"[1] Rather than spend time petitioning commons to support wav files, I would suggest the tool be implemented with the current regime. Keeping the format-shifting a modular system may allow for future changes to the commons regime.
Amgine
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Sound
Le 2013-04-10 19:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27:
As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in .ogg format.
In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine
Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc
I would like to get the communities feedback on this.
Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format?
Nemo
As a side work, could you spend some time on gathering information on the state of speech synthesis free sofwares ? You can check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary_future#Speech_synthesis. for a longer explanation of this topic.
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