[Wikimedia-l] "Voice Intro Project"

[James Salsman]

Andy Mabett wrote:
>
> People could use AudioBoo, for example, if it had a Flickr-like way
> for uploaders to open-license a recoding. I'ive reached out to them
> suggesting that, with no luck yet.

The open source solution for voice recording with the largest
cross-browser and cross-platform support is WAMI recorder:
http://code.google.com/p/wami-recorder/

It uses Flash because of the strictly utilitarian fact that doing so
covers the largest number of clients with microphones. But it records
to .wav files which are easily converted to Ogg Vorbis (e.g. with
oggenc) for upload to Commons etc. The free GNU Gnash player has been
able to record audio via Flash applets on many platforms since 2009,
by the way: http://wiki.gnashdev.org/MicrophoneGST