From: "Joe Wölfel" <joe@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T05:47:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby audio API (hopefully in a new thread, sorry for the duplication)

On 13 oct. 08, at 16:15, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008, Joe Wlfel wrote:
>> I'm looking for a Ruby audio API.  Is there a good one already  
>> available or
>> is anyone in the process of working on one?   I'd like one that is  
>> easy to
>> install and manage, such as a gem with no or automatic  
>> dependencies.  Also,
>> I'd like a liberal license, at least as liberal as LGPL or better  
>> yet BSD
>> because I'd like to eventually give away the tools I'm working on  
>> with the
>> fewest possible restrictions.
>
> Let's start with this... what do you want it to do?  Do you want to
> decode audio files?  Encode them?  Play back audio?  Synthesis?   
> Record?
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> Ben
>


I'd like to use it for capturing audio for speech recognition.   
Accurate control of the microphone is important.  It needs to be  
clear when the mic is on and when it's off.  Storing audio in raw  
formats is ok, but it would be preferable to read and write in a  
lossless compressed format.