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, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
you have here. The definition of the word
will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
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Tips
- I found that my recordings had a chopping sound at the start and finish, no matter how I cropped the selection. To solve this I "normalized" the selection, only removing the DC offset, not normalizing the maximum offset. This removed the chopping noise. - TheDaveRoss
en_us_... doesn't match en_uk_... in the examples. --Connel MacKenzie T C 07:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Why is Audacity considered obsolete? ~MDD4696 05:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
- No idea. The Shtooka Recorder only operates in Windows, so Audacity is still necessary for those of us who don't run Windows. --EncycloPetey 19:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
What about using a text-to-speech engine to generate pronunciations in bulk?
I would assume commercial tools licenses would be incompatible with Wiktionary.
Has anyone looked into this?
John1deer 15:06, 1 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
- Yes, we've looked into it. There are no engines capable of doing this correctly. The pronunciation of a word varies from region to region, sometimes a little but sometimes quite a lot. An engine would merely tell users how a particular algorithm interprets the pronuncation, not how a person would say it. --EncycloPetey 16:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Language-country-word, right? For Tagalog-Philippines-word, would the resulting file be something like tl-ph-merienda.ogg? --Icqgirl 09:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps we can take something useful out of this help page. Also, they're looking for some help with recordings (which I think could be used on Wiktionary as well). Nemo 22:28, 16 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
from sarri.greek 2017.10.26. υπ' όψιν/attn: TWIMC, @Saltmarsh. Here are a naïve's first impressions:
- All wikipedia, wiktionary oggs: i click on that player, and i hear nothing. I download them and play them with my VLC or WindowsMediaPlayer: it cuts off the last syllable in all short mp3s, oggs, etc. Apparently there is something wrong with me not the oggs. But still, I go to external pages and i hear fine. (e.g. cambridgedictionaries)
- i need a confirmation that the voice is of a native reader, (accent is described, ok. But is he native?)
- i need medium speed of utterance (Normal speech may be too fast for a learner/nonspeaker. Slow speed is unnatural)
- i would like female and male voice.
- i would also like audio recordings for the examples!
- i am happy to make recordings, but the procedure is too complicated. (Here is my voice ) I hear some last syllables cut off here too
Thanks sarri.greek (talk) 01:16, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
- This page is probably not being watched by anyone - it's 6 years since the previous note. Much better to try Wiktionary:Grease pit where you might get a response. I say "might" because there is always a lot to do on Wiktionary and not enough time! συγγνώμη — Saltmarsh. 05:32, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
(for eng and non-english words)
Request for expansion of 'naming' at paragraph #Procedure.
attn: Beer parlour
At Help:Audio pronunciations#Procedure I read: Call it ll-cc-word.ogg, where ll is the language code (en for English), cc = your country (us, uk, fr, etc.), and the word that you have pronounced.
I also checked commons:Cat:Pronunciation to see how editors name their files.
- language: ll (e.g. en- fr-) All the audio files i see have capital first letter: Ll-.... Xx(languageCode) (e.g. En- Fr-), apparently a Commons practice...
- country: At most non-english languages at commons:Cat:Pron I see the pattern Xx-word.ogg (no country mentioned). Even for english, the pattern ll‑word‑cc would index A...Z the words in a very helpful way. A suggestion for non english languages discussed (in Greek) with @Xoristzatziki is:
- ll - word - ccoptional - style, intonationoptional
- how to write non-latin script words: commons suggested native script, not transliterations of any kind commons/HelpDesk 2018.06.26.)
Could someone please, add a sub-heading with a bit more about naming the Files?
Perhaps also include an Upload paragraph with info:
- Upload at Commons: the Upload Wizard has easy steps for your 'own work': 1. tick own work, 2. name the ogg, choose date, write a description: e.g. Pronunciation of the Xxxxxlanguage word xxxxxx (trans.english). Native speaker, female/male, accent.
Thank you. sarri.greek (talk) 09:30, 30 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
- EL-ωωωωω.ogg If further transliteration is given, robots cannot add them automatically at pages: EL-ωωωωω-transliteration (or other comment).ogg. See Cat:Greek pronunciation Talk#logbook for naming files etc, and examples at Sarri.greek/contributions@commons for greek audio pronunciation. sarri.greek (talk) 15:13, 24 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
How include Mediawiki Lingua Libre audio pronunciatons in Wiktionary. Much needed, because a lot of word do not include audio pronunciations.--BoldLuis (talk) 14:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
On this page, the audio is a bug. How are we supposed to delete or flag an audio?
https://en.wiktionary.orgview_image.php?q=Help_talk:Audio_pronunciations&sq=Help_talk:Audio_pronunciations&lang=en&file=File:en-us-observance.ogg#file
User67QH (talk) 15:45, 21 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
- Since it's an audio file on Commons, it has to be proposed for deletion on Commons, which I just did. — SURJECTION / T / C / L / 17:22, 21 October 2022 (UTC)Reply