[gcompris-devel] Australian Accent - (audio sound set)

[Yves Combe]

Campbell Barton a écrit :
> Hi, just wondering if there is voice recordings with an Australian accent?
>   
Not yet ;-)
> The current soundfiles are American and some of the words are not so 
> commonly used in Australia - pronunciation 'zed' vs 'zee' for example.
> If children pronounce 'zee' in Australia or the UK this is considered 
> incorrect English. Other sounds like the letter 'R' are not easy to 
> understand for an Australian because of pronunciation.
>   
Is there differences between UK and Australian pronunciation?

> - If not would you be open to accepting some some voice recordings?
>   
Of course. Sounds must have a licence GPL compatible for us.

> Of course they'd need to be good quality and well spoken etc. is there 
> any preference for adult/child... male/female?
>   
No. The pronunciation is the most important point.

> if a short voice sample is accepted I can go ahead and recurd the full 
> set of words letters etc.
> I have a quality microphone and can normalize/compress/cleanup the 
> sounds for inclusion
>   
Sounds has to be ogg compressed. AFAIK There are tips on the technical
point in the sound directory, in the sources:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gcompris/trunk/boards/sounds/HOWTO_ENCODE?view=markup

Bruno Coudoin, our dictator, has gone on holidays far from the net for
some days. I am not really sure he can survive to that eperience :-).
You could wait for him to be back if you want to be sure how to do the
sound files.

Regards,
-- 
yves