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

[Campbell Barton]

Sounds good, I posted a link to the a sample ogg in a previous mail,
No problem recording all sounds (there wouldn't be much point otherwise).

2 more questions

1) is there a formal approval process for adding new sounds?
2) is there a list of words to read, or do we just follow the existing 
English OGG files?

If some recordings have any problems we can re-recording them.

Waiting on the go-ahead to record the whole set. ;-)

Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> Le lundi 30 juillet 2007 à 15:29 +1000, Campbell Barton a écrit :
>> Hi, just wondering if there is voice recordings with an Australian accent?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> - If not would you be open to accepting some some voice recordings?
>>
>> Of course they'd need to be good quality and well spoken etc. is there 
>> any preference for adult/child... male/female?
>>
>> 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
>>
> 
> No problem for me. I am in vacation for 2 weeks and won't help much from
> there. Please note that we can provide a voice set but it must be
> complete. We could implement a fallback system like the locale does. I
> mean when in Austalia, if a sound is missing we could pick the English
> one. Well I don't remember if we do this.
> 
> You can send a small sample on the list, possibly with a link to
> download it, perhaps you will get some feedback. 
> 
> Bruno.

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Campbell J Barton (ideasman42)