[Parley-devel] Interest in improving parley with voice for vocabularies

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi Thomas,
welcome to Parley development!


On Monday 23 March 2009 11:31:17 Eitzenberger Thomas wrote:
> Hi "List",
>
> As my lady is at the moment starting to learn english she is in desparate
> need to get support also on pronounciation...
>
> As any need of my lady is also a need for me I would be willing to join you
> on adding this to parley...
Hehe :)


> Option 1) Add the voice files itself to parley
> Option 2) use wictionary as outlined on parley todo page
I think using wiktionary (yeah, there's a K in it) is the way to go.
The great benefit of using it is that it allows everyone to access these 
files.
They should be recorded by native speakers as far as I know, just something to 
keep in mind.

> Add 1) I would be willing to record my voice for this purpose and walk
> through the 1330 files of the english section
>
> Add 2) It would mean retrieve the html file for the vocabulary at hand and
> parse the html for the english link to the ogg file if any is on that
> page.....
Since Avgoustinos summer of code project it is easy to extend parley with 
scripts.
I'd try to go that way to fetch the ogg files from wiktionary. There is one 
script that fetches images from google already and adapting it to fetch sounds 
from a wiki should be quite doable.
The script could either set the url to the remote file or download the file.
Let me know if this sounds like a viable solution.

Greetings,
Frederik


> Add 1) it might be smarter to go for 2) and provide the ogg files as an
> offline fallback solution once we are able to downlaod them for
> wictionary.... If we go for 2) I would be willign to upload the missing
> vocabularies to wictionary too
>
> Ready for technical discussion and yes of course if someone is already
> working on that I am happy to join you :O)
>
> best regards ET

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