[Wikimedia-l] "Voice Intro Project"

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:57:41 +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
>
>
> 
> <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/>
>
> asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second 
> sample
> of their speaking voice, for use on those articles.
>
> An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place]
> and I have been [job or position] since [year]".
>
> So far, the participants:
>
>    <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project>
>
> include Sue Black, Cory Doctorow, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and
> we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
>
> Do you know anyone who has an article about them? Do you know of 
> tools
> that would simplify the process of making ogg files, open licensing
> them, and uploading them to Commons? How can we include more speakers
> of other languages?
>

This sounds interesting, but what is the purpose? I happen to be a 
subject of a Wikipedia article, is the idea that anybody would get a 
chance to hear what accent do I have? I am not sure I would like this.

Cheers
Yaroslav