{"id":12,"date":"2014-10-02T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-05-24T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:12:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:14\">HearThis\u2122 is a free <strong>scripture recording<\/strong> software that empowers communities to record and share translated scripture in their own languages as they translate. No need for fluent readers or waiting for translation completion. Watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1085717994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short video<\/a> explaining what HearThis does<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:47\"><strong>HearThis\u2122 makes scripture recording simple:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-sourcepos=\"9:1-11:22\">\n<li data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:45\">Start sharing recordings during translation<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"10:1-10:35\">Record scripture passages locally<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:22\">Produce high-quality audio recordings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"13:1-13:110\">HearThis\u2122 integrates with Paratext, a popular scripture translation software, but works independently as well.<\/p>\n<h3>Partnering with FCBH<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithcomesbyhearing.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faith Comes By Hearing<\/a>&#8216;s mission is to provide people everywhere with free access to God\u2019s Word through Audio Bibles in every translated language. To explore a possible partnership with them to create a successful product, please check out their <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/07\/FCBH-Guidelines-to-Processing-Partner-Recordings.pdf\">FCBH Guidelines to Processing Partner Recordings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2022\/07\/FCBH-Reference-Guide-for-Using-HearThis.pdf\">FCBH Reference Guide for Using HearThis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"announcement\"><p>Note: Depending on the stage of your project, and their availability to meet your timeline, instead of recording with HearThis, you might be able to arrange for FCBH to help with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithcomesbyhearing.com\/what-we-do\/record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording process<\/a> and walk with you through every stage of getting your audio Scriptures completed and published. Please contact them directly for more information.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Get Involved<\/h2>\n<p>Are you a developer interested in contributing to HearThis? We welcome you to explore our developer resources, dive into the source code, and help us improve this tool. HearThis integrates several outstanding open source libraries and utilizes Paratext DLLs for text processing.<\/p>\n<p>For more details and to get started, visit our <a title=\"Developer\" href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/about\/developer\/\">Developer Resources<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h2>Developers<\/h2>\n<p>Tom Bogle, John Hatton, Gordon Martin, John Thomson, Andrew Polk: <a href=\"http:\/\/sil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIL Global<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HearThis\u2122 is a free scripture recording software that empowers communities to record and share translated scripture in their own languages as they translate. No need for fluent readers or waiting for translation completion. Watch a short video explaining what HearThis does HearThis\u2122 makes scripture recording simple: Start sharing recordings during translation Record scripture passages locally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/hearthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}