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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: VoicesRe: Voices
From: Grant Hardy <granthardy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:57:08 -0800 Sounds GREAT, thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jimfidler_at_gmail.com> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Voices > I'd be willing to do the edit work. > I have a recording studio and spend quite a bit of time editing anyway; I > really don't mind it at all. > > I also do a podcast: > www.republicofavalonradio.com > > The feed is: > http://feeds.feedburner.com/republicofavalonradio > > I could even do the voice bits if needed... > > Cheers, > Jim > > www.republicofavalonradio.com > www.jimfidler.com > > > > At 12:04 AM 30/01/2006 +0000, you wrote: > >>Ronald Teune wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:45:53 +0100, <rockbox-request_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote: >>> >>>>usual voice prompts. I hired a female DJ to read my scripts into the >>>>digitizer I'd set up in a PC. I think I paid her $50 for the session. >>>> >>>>That might be the way to resolve this voice problem once and for all. >>>>Find someone with voice training to read all the prompts, one right >>>>after another, and split them up with a sound editor. Might not even >>>>have to pay him/her. >>>> >>>>John >>> >>> >>>Christi did it: >>>http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceFiles#Outdated_voice_files >>>http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceFiles/ukspoken_1.0.zip >>> >>>It's from may 2004 however, so somewhat outdated :-) >>>I guess it's quite much of a job speaking all these things. How about >>>asking everyone on the list to speak one or two phrases? This way you'd >>>hear some other voices every once in a while :-) >> >>Actually the killer is editing down the recording to seperate vice >>files. I prefer to do a minimum of three takes of each phrase so I can >>pick the best one. This then has to be manually picked out from the >>recording and saved to a long filename. It's a highly repetative and >>boring task. And then the things that need voicing change so often that >>they quickly beome out of date. >> >>I'd be willing to do an up to date recording with my now much better >>recording equipment if someone else were willing to take my raw sound >>file and turn it into a voice file. Even reading five hundred odd >>phrases into a mic is not an insignificant amount of effort. >> >>Christi >> >> > > Roots Cellar Productions Inc. > P.O. Box 5851 St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5X3 > Tel: 1--709--726-8663 Fax: 1--709--726-3299 > "There are 3 types of people: those who know, those who don't and those > who won't." Received on 2006-01-30 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |