Granted Patent B1

US 8,792,818 · App. 12/691,399 · Granted Jul 29, 2014

Inventors: Allen Colebank (Old Saybrook, CT); Kevin Colebank (Old Saybrook, CT)

Abstract

Claims (61)

1. A method of producing an audio file, said method comprising:

providing a computing means having a central processing unit, visual output device, audio input device running software, and at least one manual input device;

displaying a text on the visual output device to a human narrator;

creating a performance of the text by the human narrator;

capturing the performance of the text via the audio input device;

recording the performance on electronic media;

altering a portion of the text;

displaying the altered text on the visual output device to the human narrator;

reperforming the altered text;

recording the reperformance of the altered text;

integrating the recording of the reperformance into the recording of the performance;

indexing the recording of the reperformance of the altered text in sequence with a previously recorded performance of a portion of the text; and

controlling the processing of the file via voice commands.

2. The method of claim 1 , said manual input device comprising a keyboard.

3. The method of claim 1 , said manual input device comprising a mouse.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the software adding intros to the recording of the performance.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the software adding outros to the recording of the performance.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

highlighting a portion of text on the display;

the software locates a portion of the performance recording that corresponds to the highlighted portion of the text; and

editing the recording of the performance corresponding to the highlighted portion of the text.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

highlighting a portion of the text on the display;

the software locates a portion of the performance recording that corresponds to the highlighted portion of the text; and

the software displays at least one attribute of the audio recording corresponding to the highlighted text.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

recording a timestamp of at least a first and a second performance recording;

identifying a break in a performance between the first and second performance recording based on the timestamp; and

normalizing audio output of the first and second performance recording to a prevailing level.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

highlighting a portion of text on the display;

the software locates a portion of the performance recording that corresponds to the highlighted portion of the text;

entering a modification of at least one attribute of the portion of the performance recording; and

storing the modification in a file separate from the performance recording.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

entering comments to the text;

associating the comments to a portion of the text.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

displaying a cue in the text representing the comments; and

displaying the comments only when the cue is highlighted.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

exporting the finished audio product to a file of the type selected from the group consisting of: MP3, CDA, MP4, windows media, and WMA.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

compressing a file for export and

exporting the file.

14. A method of producing an audio file, said method comprising:

providing a computing means having a central processing unit, visual output device, audio input device running software, and at least one manual input device;

displaying a text on the visual output device to a human narrator;

creating a performance of the text by the human narrator;

capturing the performance of the text via the audio input device;

recording the performance on electronic media;

altering a portion of the text;

displaying the altered text on the visual output device to the human narrator;

creating a reperformance of the altered text by the human narrator;

recording the reperformance of the altered text;

storing the recording of the reperformance in a file separate from an original performance recording;

integrating the recording of the reperformance into the recording of the performance using indexing of the performance and reperformance relative to the text and altered text;

automatically adding an intro and an outro to the output file;

compressing the output file;

exporting the output file; and

controlling the processing of the method via voice commands.

Assignments (11)