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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: VoicesRe: Voices
From: Brian Hartgen <brian_at_hartgen.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:36:56 -0000 Hi I would also be willing to create a UK-based voice file if anyone required that. It would be easy enough to do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Hardy" <granthardy_at_gmail.com> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:57 AM Subject: Re: Voices > 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It's from may 2004 however, so somewhat outdated :-) 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 |