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

[Campbell Barton]

Hi Yves, Heres the sample recording
http://members.optusnet.com.au/cjbarton/gcompris-test.ogg

Feel free to be critical, I wont let her read if the comments are not so 
good,
so don;t worry about hurting feelings.

Other comments inline.

Yves Combe wrote:
> 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?
For our purposes, a mild Australian and British accent aren't that 
different - There are some words that are very different but probably 
for this scope it wont matter so much.

  - Strong British or Aussie accents can be very different.
More of an accent issue than different pronunciation.

An Australian accent is different enough that there should be a 
different British/Australian sound set.

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

Yep, GPL is good.

> 
>> 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.
Good to know.

> 
>> 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,


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Campbell J Barton (ideasman42)