Request for sponsoring Parlatype -- audio player for transcription

[Ross Gammon]

Hi Gabor,

On 08/24/2017 11:13 AM, Gabor Karsay wrote:
> Dear Debian Multimedia Maintainers,
>
> I'm looking for a reviewer or sponsor of my package Parlatype which is
> a minimal audio player that helps you to transcribe speeches,
> interviews, lyrics etc. It's based on GStreamer and GTK+.
>
> It shows the waveform of the audio and I am not aware of any other
> comparable tool in Debian that does that. A similar program is
> Play-it-slowly, but Parlatype offers helpers for transcription, like
> timestamps (drag'n'drop), rewind on pause etc.
>
> Just to clarify: I'm also the upstream author. I filed already ITP and
> RFS bugs here:
>
> ITP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868886
> RFS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867727
>
> I was not aware of the multimedia packaging team before, my first
> intent was to maintain it myself, i.e. not in a team. I hope that
> somebody from this team is interested and can give me some guidance
> how to proceed.
>
> Thank you
> Gabor Karsay
>
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I would be happy to take a look at this. Unfortunately, I am quite busy
at the moment so I can't promise much this week.

I have cc'd you because you did not say whether you are subscribed to
the Multimedia list. I have also copied in the RFS bug so that other
potential sponsors see this and take over if they are looking for
something to do :-)

Regards,

Ross