SpeakThings:Mellerbeck

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FCW

Are you making a spoken version of Finnish Civil War, as you asked the pronounciation of Svinhufvud on the talk page? It will be on main on 26th day. If you have any questions or anything, I can help. I could make a sound clip and upload it to my FTP and link here, if some Finnish words are hard to think how to pronounce. Also www.mikropuhe.com/demo.asp you can enter the text and the robot will pronounce it in Finnish. The site is often down as it is atm too. --Pudeo (Talk) 14:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Here [1] are some. Some articles as Tampere have the prounciation already. But I'm not really good doing those pronounciations, there's always some crisping at the background and me not controlling my voice properly, but hope you get the point anyway.. :p I didn't try to pronounce the german words, and Karelia is btw completely english word so I guess the normal way is the proper way. But I don't believe the pronounciations are THAT important, just that it sounds something like it. --Pudeo (Talk) 16:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Audio hyperlinks

I noticed you created this page which contains information which is only relevant to the Spoken Wikipedia WikiProject, and shouldn't belong in the mainspace, which is reserved for articles. For this reason, I have re-created it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Audio hyperlinks. Could you kindly place {{db-author}} on the original page in order to get it deleted? Cheers, -Panser Born- (talk) 22:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, done

--SpeakThings:Mellerbeck 16:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Music in SpokenWikipedia?

Hey SpeakThings:Mellerbeck,

I recently put up a few audio articles which included a tiny amount of original music, just like your recording for "Wiki" contained at the beginning.

Do you know the official policy on music? My spoken articles were removed for containing it.

Thanks --WAZAAAA 05:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know the policy, I just did it for fun :-) sorry to hear yours were removed.

SpeakThings:Mellerbeck 21:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:En-Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.ogg

Hi. After I reveiwed this recording, a user raised some concerns regarding the version that was recorded, and has requested that the recording be updated to reflect a later version of the article. The version you recorded was featured on the main page, and subject to some vandalism. Also, complete recordings are preferred over partial ones, particularly of featured articles. As you have an excellent speaking voice and narration style, I'd like to request that you make an updated full version of this recording. If you have difficulty with the editing (see the "Technical quality" section of the review), I'd be happy to do some editing work on the new version once you've uploaded it, so you needn't worry too much about getting things like the edit spacing perfect. Please let me know what you decide. -- Macropode 06:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been thinking about this for a bit. Let me know what you think about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia#Opinion.2C_full_recording_vrs_snippet._Breadth_vrs_Depth

I will do a new version of the shark article, silly vandals, I wish there was an easy way to get a somewhat authentic version of a FA article.

--SpeakThings:Mellerbeck 17:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll throw my ten cents worth into the conversation you mentioned shortly.

When you're choosing an article to narrate, have a look through its edit history. If there are frequent reverts, then that article is probably not stable and it's best to choose another article to read. Featured articles on the main page attract a lot of attention, unfortunately not all of it constructive. These articles usually stabilise after they're off the main page. It looks like the shark attack article has, so about now might be a good time to do a spoken version. :) -- Macropode 08:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

re: Spoken wiki collaboration

Hey ST:M, I am currently working on (or in-between working on) the Omnipotence paradox. I've recorded and uploaded the introduction as well as the Overview. I don't have anything else started for the other sections, so if you would like to work on that, feel free and just let me know what sections you'll be doing. It won't be too weird having multiple readers for a single article? -- MacAddct1984 22:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Amanita Phalloides

Hi, Mellerbeck. Your spoken version of Amanita phalloides seems to be incomplete. Can you finish it please? I look forward to listening to it. :-) Regards, Axl (talk) 10:26, 29 March 2008 (UTC)