[Wikimedia-l] "Voice Intro Project"

[Florence Devouard]

Gerard,

Did not we record something sounding like "merry christmas and happy new 
year" several years ago ? Was it uploaded ? I could not find it ;)

Flo

On 2/8/13 5:24 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> There are several tools that allow you to record pronunciations. I have
> done many many in the past and, I am not the only on
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
>
> On 8 February 2013 16:06, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
>> then make their file an ogg, or record it to ogg in a super fast way.
>>
>> it's a small, but time consuming thing to record yourself, upload it (or
>> whatever) to your computer, and then figure out how to make it into an open
>> license.
>>
>> -Sarah
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Andy Mabbett, 08/02/2013 14:57:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
>>>>
>>>>      <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/**open-licensed-format-**
>>>> recordings-voices-wikipedia-**wikimedia-commons/<
>> 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
>> <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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think we really need such a tool, for instance it's a shame that
>>> Wiktionary doesn't have pronounciation recordings on most of its entries.
>>> Of course it's better if the speaker is authoritative (like the subject
>> in
>>> person for a biography or a professional for Wiktionary), but tools would
>>> help everyone.
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
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