Voice messages for discourse

Is there any plugin that allows users to post voice subjects?
Is there anyone interested in such plugin?

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this may help: I remember @simon has worked on “sound track upload”, but I couldn’t find it now via search.

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I think this is it?
https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-for-audio-file-uploads/36313

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If you enable audio filetypes for your forum, (mp3, ogg, wav, m4a) when audio files are uploaded, they should give you the browser’s default audio player.

Audio files are very large, so you would probably only want to enable them if you are storing uploads externally.

Edit: with the m4a filetype enabled, I can upload audio directly from my Android phones voice recorder app. That might be close to what you are looking for.

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Is there any way to limit the length of the audio to X seconds?
Do users record their voice or need to upload the files?

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No, but you can set the ‘max attachment size’ on Discourse to limit upload sizes. From my phone, a 1 minute audio recording is approximately 1000kb.

They need to upload the file. On my phone it is quite straightforward. Clicking the upload button in the composer opens the phone’s ‘Choose an action’ menu. That lets me select the phone’s voice recorder app.

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Following @simon’s suggestions, I get a player when a user uploads an audio file directly, but not when the audio file comes as an email attachment. In that case, a link to download the audio file is displayed. I’m testing Discourse as a ticketing system and our inboxes receive a good amount of voicemails to handle (forwarded from our phone line), so I’m interested in the player option when someone emails an audio file. Is there a way to configure this?

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Can you send an audio file as an email attachment here by replying to this via email so that we can have a look?

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I’ve tried to reply with an audio attachment but it appears that audio files are not authorized here ("authorized extensions: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, csv, gz, json, svg, mp4, txt, docx, mov, tex”).

Regardless, the same thing appears to happen with audio-only video files. Here is an .mp4 being sent as an email attachment.

Test audio recording.mp4 (44.1 KB)

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And here it is with the direct upload.

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Thanks @Elena_Lappen.

@gerhard, can you see if we can improve attachment_markdown to check if we can onebox the upload?

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I’m reviving this topic because I think voice messages are a big accessibility feature. I’m looking for

  • Voice recording
  • Accessible to those who are D/deaf and/or hard of hearing
  • So likely via automatic transcription
  • Translatable
  • Stored externally

We use VoiceText to do this on Slack, and it works very very well.

I’d love for it to be an option for Discourse, though! I don’t know how to necessarily get that to happen, but the workflow is just right.

For Discourse, perhaps an intermediary step is adding a button to the composer that opens a link to a voice recorder site. I’ve experimented with different voice recorders and here are some options. None of them are perfect, but would love to hear your feedback on this idea!

Otter.ai
Automatic transcription. Requires log-in and requires payment after 600 minutes/month (which is a lot, though!)

Reverb
Super simple to use. No log-in required. However, no automatic transcription.

SpeakPipe
Also super simple to use. No log-in required. No automatic transcription. 5 minute time limit per recording. Not as pretty as Reverb.

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Eu também estaria muito interessado neste recurso dentro do Discourse, a solução alternativa atual não parece algo que meus usuários fariam por causa das complicações que alguns dos meus usuários podem enfrentar.

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Olá pessoal

Estou pegando isso! Este é um recurso no qual estou interessado, pois quero principalmente mover a comunicação para nossa equipe para mensagens de voz.

Eu tentei a ditado da Siri, mas é um pesadelo (pelo menos para a língua alemã). E estou no Firefox, portanto, o ditado do Google Chrome não é uma opção.

Alguém conseguiu algo semelhante?

@debryc Você descobriu alguma implementação nativa com o discourse? Meu cenário ideal seria usar um serviço de dentro do editor para que a transcrição completa seja incorporada automaticamente na postagem.

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@jrgong Eu também tenho acompanhado isso.

Existe este Componente de Tema do @angus (que está atualmente quebrado)…

Também existe um Plugin do @peter.be que agora está funcionando…

Componentes de Tema são geralmente melhores e mais flexíveis, então o Componente de Tema do @angus é provavelmente a melhor solução! Talvez possamos contribuir para pagar um dos desenvolvedores para consertar o Componente de Tema.

@jrgong também existe isto, que é na verdade muito legal e estável, de código aberto… que eu poderia considerar empacotar como um componente de tema.

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O Soundcite parece interessante por sua natureza de código aberto :slight_smile:
o próximo passo seria, obviamente, incorporá-lo nativamente às postagens do Discourse.

Sim, me envie uma mensagem privada, estou interessado :slight_smile:

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