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Re: [lojban] Re: Lindar is very nice to volunteer! (was Re: Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech)



Apparently Lindar has rescinded his volunteeration? (Yes, I know that's not a word. It's a coin!)

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:
I uploaded the espoken collection now. Crap compared to good real
human recordings; better than nothing. For now, and whomever needs it.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, how's progress? I checked today and saw that no audio has been uploaded
> to http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files, so I thought I'd ask.
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, do that please.
>>
>> Here's all the words in the language ordered by frequency; ignore
>> everything but the first column.
>>
>> http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/flashcards/big_list
>>
>> However, before you really get going, please record the first few
>> cmavo, and then the first few gismu, and then these gismu:
>>
>> betfu
>>
>> pelxu
>>
>> ciska
>>
>> gunka
>>
>> mudri
>>
>> jarco
>>
>> vukro
>>
>> zbabu
>>
>> which happen to cover all the sounds in the language except ' and y
>> :)
>>
>> Post them at http://www.lojban.org/tiki/valsi+Sound+Files, and let
>> us know.  Then I'm going to make Arnt, our resident phonology
>> expert, listen to them.  I don't want to get 1k words into it and
>> have to tell you your "a" sounds are wrong, or something.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:53:33AM -0700, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:
>> >    Upload them to the Lojban.org tiki and give me the url. Being the
>> >    originator of this idea, it defaults to me to do it, but if you
>> > upload the
>> >    files to the tiki, thus making them publicly available, anyone can do
>> > it,
>> >    which would- theoretically- mean less work for me.
>> >
>> >    On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Lindar Greenwood
>> >    <[1]lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >      > It would still require manual uploading, but if you could make
>> > 6000+
>> >
>> >      > recordings, it would certainly be faster than manual recording,
>> > which
>> >      > has been the only other alternative. And actually, since it
>> > appears
>> >      > there are no mass uploads of any form on [2]smart.fm, it would be
>> > just
>> >      as
>> >      > fast as tricking the polish voice into speaking lojban.
>> >
>> >      Well, if somebody is willing to put in the effort to upload all of
>> >      these, I'm willing to make them.
>> >      Whomever elects themselves will receive a large zip of a few
>> > hundred at
>> >      a time.
>> >      I think it's worth it, but I'm not going to spend the time
>> > recording
>> >      unless I know it's going to get used.
>> >
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>> > [4]http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/,
>> >      or if
>> >      you're really stuck, send mail to [5]secretary@lojban.org for help.
>> >
>> >    --
>> >    mu'o mi'e .aionys.
>> >
>> >    .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu
>> >
>> > References
>> >
>> >    Visible links
>> >    1. mailto:lindarthebard@yahoo.com
>> >    2. http://smart.fm/
>> >    3. mailto:lojban-list-request@lojban.org
>> >    4. http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/
>> >    5. mailto:secretary@lojban.org
>>
>> --
>> They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
>> And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
>> other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
>> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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