An AudioWiki is just what it sounds like – a versioned collection of audiostreams that can be added to and edited.
Here is an example (NOTE: you need stereo to be able to follow anything; I suggest using headphones) of two people who had a conversation, recorded it, commented on it while listening to it, recorded that, mixed it in, repeated, until the final product was a (mostly) intelligible conversation with multiple simultaineous voices that had been totally “reworked” in the wiki sense. It reminds one of OverHear as well as of the WikiNow.
http://openpodcast.org/ is part of the way there, but it doesn’t have editing.
Since it would take a long time to rework/edit/remix an audio stream, it has been suggested that instead of editing the audio stream using the standard approach, TextToSpeech? software would annotate the audio stream with words and then the remixing could be specified in terms of which words go when.
The article Editing audio in Linux mentions three tools that may be of use in writing such software:
See also GlobalJam, WikiMusic.
Hah, that example is great! Very interesting idea.
Some people at Wikiversity: Wiki Campus Radio are trying to collect/edit/publish open-content audio over a web radio. Right now they’re just starting up, trying to attract a critical mass of people, and giving everyone tools for recording/editing/publishing video. Will Wiki Campus Radio become a AudioWiki?
By the way, I did implement that Lilypond plugin for Oddmuse that lets people typeset music sheets (and generates MIDI from them): http://oink.sheep.art.pl/Music_Wiki
Whoa, you did it! Awesome! Thanks Radomir…