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Workshop - Recording sound/pronunciations

Leader(s): Gerard Meijssen
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Language: English
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About the leader(s): See biography in Gerard's presentation

Abstract: Sound is a wonderful way of showing how things are pronounced. It is much more intuitive than systems like SAMPA. Pronunciations can be recorded in Commons and be available as a resource to our projects. It is worthwhile to have pronunciations in the local language for things like people and places. It shows that you cannot pronounce a word from text not knowing the language.

A workshop will consist of the following parts:

Why sound files are useful
.ogg files the sound standard promoted by Wikimedia
Audacity, a gratis program that does save .ogg files.
Demonstration of Audacity.
The convention for the names of sound files in Commons.
Demonstration of uploading sound files to Commons
Adding some sound files to an article of one of the projects