[gcompris-devel] English Sounds Incomplete or in French

[Bruno Coudoin]

Robert,

Again, I got the request to have the complete set of english voices.

Have you made some progress on them or do you want to give up and we can
ask another person to take that task ?

Bruno.


Le ven 10/01/2003 à 13:47, D. Robert Adams a écrit :
> I might be interested in doing this.  Can you send me some further
> information on what sound files need to be created and how to go about
> the process?  Are these stored in the CVS, or do I just create an
> archive, etc.  Give me some details and I'll certainly consider it. 
> My wife once did some voice-over work for a radio station, so maybe
> I'll cajole her into doing it :-) 
> 
> -Robert 
>         Message: 2
>         Subject: Re: [gcompris-devel] English Sounds Incomplete or in French
>         From: Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr>
>         To: gcompris-devel list <gcompris-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>         Organization: Anfora
>         Date: 09 Jan 2003 10:30:02 +0100
>         Reply-To: gcompris-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>         
>         
>         Robert,
>         
>         Thanks for your interrest in gcompris.
>         
>         For the english sounds, what you saw is the best I have in hands.
>         
>         Originally, I recorded my wife (she is french but whould like to become
>         an english teacher ;).
>         
>         Recording voices with an acceptable quality level requires some parts I
>         don't personnaly have (especially a good mic).
>         
>         So we had the oportunity to do it once only. Of course we did focus on
>         french and the english and spanish are lagging.
>         
>         Now, I got a contributor that proposed to update the english voices
>         (about 2 monthes ago) which would be great but I never got any files
>         from him.
>         
>         Here is the status.
>         
>         Now, if you want, you can take over this task and create the voice files
>         yourself.
>         
>         Bruno.
>         
>         Le mer 08/01/2003 =E0 20:22, D. Robert Adams a =E9crit :
>         > I just downloaded GCompris 1.2 for the first time and I must say I'm
>         > impressed.  However, when I downloaded the English sound packages from
>         > SourceForge there are two problems.=20
>         >=20
>         > First, Version 1.1 is missing the color sound files (and other files
>         > like "congratulations.ogg").=20
>         > Second, Version 1.0 has the missing files, but they are actually in
>         > French.=20
>         >=20
>         > Can someone please update the archives on SourceForge.=20
>         >=20
>         > Thanks,=20
>         > Robert=20
>         >=20
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