I have the incredible privilege of announcing (again ) that @karl_lew has just released v1.0.0 of SuttaCentral Voice (SCV). His is an extraordinary accomplishment, and I further have the incredible privilege of being the first in line to offer him my heart felt thanks for smoothing the way for myself and, no doubt, many, many others to hearing the teaching of the Buddha.
There are yet more plans to develop this wonderful app, and if you have any feedback (bugs, feature requests, general celebration of Karlâs brilliance, whatever), please feel free to let us know below.
enter a sutta name, id, or key word into the search box
press Enter
press the play icon to listen to the sutta
or click on the details boxes below
to see the sutta details/sutta
Alternatively, you can press the examples button on the home page
and it will give you some random suggestions of things to search for and selecting one of them will give you some suttas to listen to (clicking âexamplesâ again will give you different suggestions).
Lastly, you may want to set your own Sutta Player preferences (to hear different voices etc). You can do this by clicking on the settings icon on the top right . If youâd like the SCV to remember your preferences every time you visit, make sure you tick the âStore settings using web browser cookiesâ option.
Hope this helps, let me know if you need any more pointers.
Right, thanks, now I understand (with the comment you since edited). SuttaCentral Voice will, indeed, be integrated with the main SuttaCentral site (and that will happen soon), nevertheless it is and will remain a separate app and for now you can only access it using the link given in the OP.
Actually, downloading multiple suttas hasnât been on my screen so far. I am mainly interested in single suttas. I will certainly try out the new download functions and give feedback. But first of all Iâm simply celebrating with you!
@Blake, it is always complicated to add a DNS subdomain. Every company that hosts domains has their own process for doing this. It all ends up being a CNAME record. To fulfill Bhanteâs request, we need a new CNAME record for
en.voice.suttacentral.net
50.18.90.151
The instructions for adding CNAME records are vendor-specific. For example, here is the documentation for GoDaddy. I do not know which vendor administers suttacentral.net, but I think you might.
In addition to the CNAME record, I would recommend one additional change. Currently the staging SC software refers directly to the IP address 50.18.90.151. Although this is functional, it is fragile. I recommend changing that code to refer to en.voice.suttacentral.net. Clearly, this second change must happen after the first change is done and tested. It can also happen in a later release if you choose since functionality will not be affected. My recommendation is based on the observation that if I make a mistake in releasing SCV, we lose that static IP 50.18.90.151 forever. It is one bad mouse click from death.
-Is it possible to have a Sutta index in the left side? So we can go to particular Nikaya and Chose the Sutta. This is similar to Sutta Central main site. Perhaps when Voice assistance integrated to SC this may be resolved.
Is it possible to see the text screen bit larger? I have a small meditation group and I link my PC to the TV. They watch TV while listening to the Sutta.
Launch Sutta player Indian bell cut off before it ends. Can you fix it. Sorry to pick on a minor matter but it is great to listening to the sound until it ends with a silent. (Samudaya and Nirodha)
I canât play DN 2. Can see only the text. It says down load but does not download.
Is it possible to download a particular Sutta and play with text window?
How does this work with the cookie settings? Last night I selected some settings and clicked the âstore in cookiesâ button, and this morning it wasnât there any more. It played a different bell from the one I had selected, thatâs where I noticed it; and when I opened the settings then I saw that the other ones had changed back too.
I donât think this is a bug, but rather that thereâs something I missedâŚ
I just test it now at the moment it is stored.
PS:
I restart the computer and the settings gone back to reset mode!
So it does not work in my compurter either.
) that @karl_lew has just released v1.0.0 of SuttaCentral Voice (SCV). His is an extraordinary accomplishment, and I further have the incredible privilege of being the first in line to offer him my heart felt thanks for smoothing the way for myself and, no doubt, many, many others to hearing the teaching of the Buddha.
to listen to the sutta
. If youâd like the SCV to remember your preferences every time you visit, make sure you tick the âStore settings using web browser cookiesâ option.
