Swifty Podcast Editor

Tell us about the features and technologies you used in your Swift playground.

• SwiftUI: using SwiftUI (and platform detection compiler directives), I'm able t create a universal app from my single code base that runs on macOS (native), Mac Catalyst, and on iOS devices as well!
• SF Symbols: on platforms supporting SFSymbols, I use Image(systemName:). Otherwise, I fall back to using emojis :P
• Combine: managing data flow between the objects and updating the UI state when transcriptions become available.
• SFSpeechRecognizer: this empowers me to get the automatic transcription for audio files ON DEVICE, a new feature introduced last year at WWDC19.
• AVSpeechSynthesizer: to generate synthesized audio for including in podcast.
• NaturalLanguage: finding the dominant language of the user input text so I can filter the synthesizer voices, splitting long paragraphs into sentences before insertion, and sentiment analysis for fun.
• AVAudioEngine, AVAudioPlayer: for recording and playing sound.
• Swift: Codable for serialization (cache recognition result and edits), using higher-order functions for simplified data transformations, proper ARC using weak references.

Acknowledgements

List the open source software you used and explain why you used it.

1. I used "Binary Search Depiction" by AlwaysAngry under CC BY-SA License from Wikipedia in the "Behind the Scene"/"Technical Details" page. It is a good depiction in addition to the videos I made using Keynote animations (those blue bars and red star blinking and disappearing). Appropriate attribution has been given on the playground page as well.
2. I used the SwiftUI collection view (flow layout) by Chris Eidhof file for my editor layout, which I appreciate deeply. However, as described in the same playground page mentioned above, such code does not support rearranging elements. As that is a major feature of my own editor, I modified the "library" to support drag & drop element organization using binary search. It was also designed only for use in iOS/UIKit (as it depended on UIOffset), so I added support for it to compile against macOS.

License

A SwiftUI app that allows you to edit audio podcast swiftly.
Copyright (C) 2020 Apollo/Zhiyu Zhu/@ApolloZhu

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