$Id: README.txt 204 2010-11-30 02:20:04Z pwilkins $
sm-transcript reads results of SLS processing and produces transcripts for
the SpokenMedia browser. For each file in the source folder whose extension
matches the source type, a file of destination type is created in the
destination folder. All of these parameters have default values.
Note: Examples of the commands you enter in the terminal are for *nix. The
command prompt in the examples is:
felix$ <command line>
If you are a Windows user, make the usual adjustments.
Requirements:
sm-transcript is written in Ruby and packaged as a RubyGem. Since Ruby is
not a compiled language, you will need to have Ruby installed on your
machine to run sm-transcript. You can determine if Ruby is installed by
typing "ruby -v" at a terminal prompt. It should return the version of
Ruby that is installed. If Ruby is not installed on your machine, navigate
to http://www.ruby-lang.org/ and follow the installation instructions.
sm-transcript was developed using Ruby 1.8. Other Ruby versions have not
been tested as of this release.
Installation:
You can get sm-transcript as either a RubyGem or as source from svn.
The preferred way to install this package is as a Rubygem. You can
download and install the gem with this command:
felix$ sudo gem install [--verbose] sm-transcript
This command downloads the most recent version of the gem from rubygems.org
and makes it active. Previous versions of the gem remain installed, but
are deactivated.
You must use "sudo" to properly install the gem. If you execute "gem
install" (omitting the "sudo") the gem is installed in your home gem
repository and it isn't in your path without additional configuration.
Note: You need sudo privileges to run the command as written. If you
can't sudo, then you can install it locally and will need some additional
configuration. Contact me (or your local Ruby wizard) for assistance.
The executable is now in your path.
You can cleanly uninstall the gem with this command:
felix$ sudo gem uninstall sm-transcript
If you have access to our svn repository, you are welcome to check out the
code. Be warned that the trunk tip is not necessarily stable. It changes
frequently as enhancements (and bug fixes) are added. (note that the
'smb_transcript' in the command line below is not a typo.)
svn co svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/oeit-tsa/SMB/smb_transcript/trunk sm_transcript
build the gem by running this command from the directory you installed the
source. This is what it looks like on my machine:
felix$ rake gem
The gem will be built and put in ./pkg You can now use the gem
installation instructions above.
Using the App:
Run with no command line parameters, the app reads *.wrd files out of
./results and writes *.t1.html files to ./transcripts. These directories
are relative to where sm_transcript is called.
Note: destination files are overwritten without a warning prompt. If you
want to preserve an existing output file, rename it before running the app
again.
For example, run the app by navigating to the bin folder and enter
projects/sm_transcript/bin felix$ sm_transcript
This command run from this folder will read *.wrd files from bin/results
and write *-t1.html to bin/transcripts.
Usage: sm_transcript [options]
--srcdir PATH Read files from this folder (Default: ./results)
--destdir PATH Write files to this folder (Default: ./transcripts)
--srctype wrd | seg | txt | ttml | srt Kind of file to process (Default: wrd)
--desttype html | ttml | datajs | json Kind of file to output (Default: html)
-h, --help Show this message
There is a serious gotch'a in specifying the srctype parameter: it must
match the case of the file extension that you're processing. This means
that if the srt files that you are processing have the extension .SRT, then
you must specify the srctype as "SRT". Pretty lame, I know. I will update
the gem with a fix shortly. My apologies until then.
Troubleshooting:
sm-transcript requires additional gems to operate. The RubyGem
installation should install dependencies automatically, but when it
doesn't, you get an error that includes
... no such file to load -- builder (LoadError)
in the first few lines when you run sm-transcript, the problem is a
missing dependent gem. (the error above indicates that the Builder
gem is missing.) Try installing the missing gem. For the error above,
the command looks like this on my computer:
felix$ sudo gem install builder
See "Required Gems" below for more information.
A warning message such as:
"WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.6,
but has dynamically loaded 2.7.7""
may be safely ignored.
If you continue to have trouble, feel free to contact me.
Upgrading:
You can easily upgrade by simply executing the same command you used to
install the gem. Running install again will add the newer version and make
it active. By default the most recent version is used, but older versions
are still available, simply inactive.
If are using svn, you should already know what to do.
Required Gems:
builder - create structured data, such as XML
extensions - added for the 'require_relative' command. (To get this
command in Ruby 1.8 you need to install this gem, for Ruby 1.9
the command is already part of the core.)
htmlentities - html parsing
json - create JSON structured data
nokogiri - xml parsing library
optparse - option parsing of command line
ostruct - open data structures
ppcommand - pp is a pretty printer. It is used only for debugging
rake - make for Ruby
rubygems - support for gems (shouldn't be needed for Ruby 1.9)
shoulda - enhancement for Test::Unit
This command installs gems on OSX and Linux:
felix$ sudo gem install <gem name>
I recommend running the following command to update to latest version of
rubygems before loading new gems.
felix$ sudo gem update --system
Unit Tests:
You may run all unit tests by navigating to the test folder and running
rake with no parameters (the default rake task runs all tests). On my
computer, it looks like this:
projects/sm_transcript/test felix$ rake
Release Notes:
Initial Version - runs under Ruby 1.8.x.
version 0.0.4 - fixes bug when processing .WRD files with CRLF line
endings.
version 0.0.5 - removed due to posting error
version 0.0.6 - added srctype of ttml and desttype of json, fixed bug where
beginning time of word was actually for previous word.
version 0.0.7 - added srt as srctype
version 0.0.8 - fixed bug that dropped last phrase from transcripts
version 1.0.0 - declared this version 1.0.0 to conform more closely with
gem numbering conventions. All tests run successfully.
To Do:
- specify individual files for processing rather than folders
- fix bug in srt processing: can't read Creole srt content.
- allow user to modify the "t1" file extension for addition languages of
the same transcript.
- update code to run under Ruby 1.9
sm-transcript reads results of SLS processing and produces transcripts for
the SpokenMedia browser. For each file in the source folder whose extension
matches the source type, a file of destination type is created in the
destination folder. All of these parameters have default values.
Note: Examples of the commands you enter in the terminal are for *nix. The
command prompt in the examples is:
felix$ <command line>
If you are a Windows user, make the usual adjustments.
Requirements:
sm-transcript is written in Ruby and packaged as a RubyGem. Since Ruby is
not a compiled language, you will need to have Ruby installed on your
machine to run sm-transcript. You can determine if Ruby is installed by
typing "ruby -v" at a terminal prompt. It should return the version of
Ruby that is installed. If Ruby is not installed on your machine, navigate
to http://www.ruby-lang.org/ and follow the installation instructions.
sm-transcript was developed using Ruby 1.8. Other Ruby versions have not
been tested as of this release.
Installation:
You can get sm-transcript as either a RubyGem or as source from svn.
The preferred way to install this package is as a Rubygem. You can
download and install the gem with this command:
felix$ sudo gem install [--verbose] sm-transcript
This command downloads the most recent version of the gem from rubygems.org
and makes it active. Previous versions of the gem remain installed, but
are deactivated.
You must use "sudo" to properly install the gem. If you execute "gem
install" (omitting the "sudo") the gem is installed in your home gem
repository and it isn't in your path without additional configuration.
Note: You need sudo privileges to run the command as written. If you
can't sudo, then you can install it locally and will need some additional
configuration. Contact me (or your local Ruby wizard) for assistance.
The executable is now in your path.
You can cleanly uninstall the gem with this command:
felix$ sudo gem uninstall sm-transcript
If you have access to our svn repository, you are welcome to check out the
code. Be warned that the trunk tip is not necessarily stable. It changes
frequently as enhancements (and bug fixes) are added. (note that the
'smb_transcript' in the command line below is not a typo.)
svn co svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/oeit-tsa/SMB/smb_transcript/trunk sm_transcript
build the gem by running this command from the directory you installed the
source. This is what it looks like on my machine:
felix$ rake gem
The gem will be built and put in ./pkg You can now use the gem
installation instructions above.
Using the App:
Run with no command line parameters, the app reads *.wrd files out of
./results and writes *.t1.html files to ./transcripts. These directories
are relative to where sm_transcript is called.
Note: destination files are overwritten without a warning prompt. If you
want to preserve an existing output file, rename it before running the app
again.
For example, run the app by navigating to the bin folder and enter
projects/sm_transcript/bin felix$ sm_transcript
This command run from this folder will read *.wrd files from bin/results
and write *-t1.html to bin/transcripts.
Usage: sm_transcript [options]
--srcdir PATH Read files from this folder (Default: ./results)
--destdir PATH Write files to this folder (Default: ./transcripts)
--srctype wrd | seg | txt | ttml | srt Kind of file to process (Default: wrd)
--desttype html | ttml | datajs | json Kind of file to output (Default: html)
-h, --help Show this message
There is a serious gotch'a in specifying the srctype parameter: it must
match the case of the file extension that you're processing. This means
that if the srt files that you are processing have the extension .SRT, then
you must specify the srctype as "SRT". Pretty lame, I know. I will update
the gem with a fix shortly. My apologies until then.
Troubleshooting:
sm-transcript requires additional gems to operate. The RubyGem
installation should install dependencies automatically, but when it
doesn't, you get an error that includes
... no such file to load -- builder (LoadError)
in the first few lines when you run sm-transcript, the problem is a
missing dependent gem. (the error above indicates that the Builder
gem is missing.) Try installing the missing gem. For the error above,
the command looks like this on my computer:
felix$ sudo gem install builder
See "Required Gems" below for more information.
A warning message such as:
"WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.6,
but has dynamically loaded 2.7.7""
may be safely ignored.
If you continue to have trouble, feel free to contact me.
Upgrading:
You can easily upgrade by simply executing the same command you used to
install the gem. Running install again will add the newer version and make
it active. By default the most recent version is used, but older versions
are still available, simply inactive.
If are using svn, you should already know what to do.
Required Gems:
builder - create structured data, such as XML
extensions - added for the 'require_relative' command. (To get this
command in Ruby 1.8 you need to install this gem, for Ruby 1.9
the command is already part of the core.)
htmlentities - html parsing
json - create JSON structured data
nokogiri - xml parsing library
optparse - option parsing of command line
ostruct - open data structures
ppcommand - pp is a pretty printer. It is used only for debugging
rake - make for Ruby
rubygems - support for gems (shouldn't be needed for Ruby 1.9)
shoulda - enhancement for Test::Unit
This command installs gems on OSX and Linux:
felix$ sudo gem install <gem name>
I recommend running the following command to update to latest version of
rubygems before loading new gems.
felix$ sudo gem update --system
Unit Tests:
You may run all unit tests by navigating to the test folder and running
rake with no parameters (the default rake task runs all tests). On my
computer, it looks like this:
projects/sm_transcript/test felix$ rake
Release Notes:
Initial Version - runs under Ruby 1.8.x.
version 0.0.4 - fixes bug when processing .WRD files with CRLF line
endings.
version 0.0.5 - removed due to posting error
version 0.0.6 - added srctype of ttml and desttype of json, fixed bug where
beginning time of word was actually for previous word.
version 0.0.7 - added srt as srctype
version 0.0.8 - fixed bug that dropped last phrase from transcripts
version 1.0.0 - declared this version 1.0.0 to conform more closely with
gem numbering conventions. All tests run successfully.
To Do:
- specify individual files for processing rather than folders
- fix bug in srt processing: can't read Creole srt content.
- allow user to modify the "t1" file extension for addition languages of
the same transcript.
- update code to run under Ruby 1.9