Good way to add voice to SmugMug

[Ham1]

Hi Folks,

I am working with an international Company that requires a lot of feedback by specific people on certain photos. They really would like to get this feedback in spoken word, not written.

Does anyone have a slick way that they could add spoken audio to their photos? (I am not talking about music at all) If it can't be added to the photo, maybe a suggestion on where to host audio files that he could upload individually would be good as well.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Markham

[Andy]

hosting, easy on http://pages.google.com and then the audio mp3 or wav can be easily linked in the caption of a photo.

http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1922787_r5GbJ/1/212498622_yRar9/Medium

[darryl]

I googled: voice annotation web

If you're looking to provide a widget with each photo where people can leave voice comments, this seems promising:

http://voxci.com/

Looks like that puts a "commentary" frame around whatever page you want.

Hrm, it's interesting though -- lots of my Canon cameras offer a "voice tag" feature where you can add commentary, notes about photos you've taken. It might be an interesting experiment to do that for a bunch of photos, upload the resulting WAV files to a Google page (or whatever) and then craft some scripts to create captions that autoembed them for each photo on SmugMug, to make an voice-annotated album.

OR -- you could just shoot video. :-}

--Darryl

[darryl]

Was thinking about this because of a post over on Phanfare's forums requesting support for display/optional playback of voice captions (http://forum.phanfare.com/showthread.php?t=1769), which most point-and-shoot cameras now offer.

I really like this Flash-based audio player I've been seeing around the web:

http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/

If you can convert the audio to MP3 and host those files on say, Google, you could embed it in a caption.

But now I realize Markham was instead asking for a way for people to *leave* comments on their photos.

This service seems to support something like that, but it's got an awful website: http://www.voice2page.com/

Here's a few that look much slicker:
http://www.getabuz.com/
http://www.snapvine.com/

I'll put up some tests shortly.