GM2: Gerard Meijssen

Title: Workshop recording sound/pronunciations (ID GM2)

  • Language: English | License:
  • Room size: medium
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  • type: Workshop
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Author[s]: Gerard Meijssen.

  • Contact: gerardm@myrealbox.com [OTRS]
  • Contacted by: Angela
  • (From: Netherlands | available days: any)
Abstract

Sound is a wonderful way of showing how things are pronounced. It is much more intuitive than systems like SAMPA. Pronunciations can be recorded in Commons and be available as a resource to our projects. It is worthwhile to have pronunciations in the local language for things like people and places. It shows that you cannot pronounce a word from text not knowing the language.

A workshop will consist of the following parts:

  • Why sound files are useful
  • . ogg files the sound standard promoted by Wikimedia
  • Audacity, a gratis program that does save .ogg files.
  • Demonstration of Audacity.
  • The convention for the names of sound files in Commons.
  • Demonstration of uploading sound files to Commons
  • Adding some sound files to an article of one of the projects

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  • accept:PD (like this multimedia things and i think the projects will need tham soon), EM (Gerard has been pioneering this), JV, AB (accept as workshop only)
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