I need your voice
I talked of this briefly with Erinn this morning (for me)/night (for
her).
I'm currently building a nice thingy with no name yet but which could
be called "Bubulle's Automagic Babelbox" or something similar.:-)
The idea is getting a machine which constantly installs itself over
and over, using the new Debian Installer, of course.
The install successively runs in each of the 41 languages d-i is
translated in, up to a fully operational desktop system. Then, it
opens a session, waits for a while, then reboots and installs itself
in the next language.
This box will probably be presented on the Debian booth at the
Solutions Linux expo in Paris (Feb. 2005). The ultimate goal is of
course a useless world record and a nice demo on how Debian is hard to
install (as we keep reading that).
At the end of the session opening, I planned to have the box playing a
nice welcome message in the current language.
*Here* I need you.
Of course, I could just ask the 41 translators of D-I to just record
the messages themselves, but that would give us a nice collection of
grave voices of all these bearded geeks...:-)
I must have half of the voices to be female voices.
At the moment, I have:
English: Erinn
French: myself
So, please just record yourself saying "Hello and welcome to your new
Debian system in <language>" where <language> is of course your own
language name.
Example: "Bonjour et bienvenue sur votre nouveau système Debian en
français"
Then just put the result somewhere to be picked up and give the URL
here. Thus, everyone will be able to listen to your nice voice...and
I'll be able to pick up the files I need.
Don't hesitate to record yourself even if someone else already did it
for your language. After all, we will later be able to collect all
these voices and keep it on the d-w web site...
Of course, those of you who speak a quite "rare" language are
privileged and have more chance to be part of the game....:)
Please note that these files are likely to be used in a public event
and just don't record yourself if you don't want your voice to be used
that way.
Finally, I do not need ONLY female voices....so even bearded
old-fashioned geeks are welcome....just go and pick up your mike.....
The list of d-i supported languages:
(Sacha, sorry, Tagalog is not here yet....)
Arabic
Bulgarian
Bosnian
Catalan
Czech
Welsh
Danish
German
Greek
English Erinn Clark
Spanish
Basque
Persian
Finnish
French Christian Perrier
Galician
Hebrew
Croatian
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Latvian
Norwegian Bokmal
Dutch
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (brazil)
Romanian
Russian
Northern Sami
Slovakian
Slovenian
Albanese
Serbian
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
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