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aceofspadezs
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 February 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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this site is very imforming and i just love it ! but how do i get my hands on the igbo audio? i did a little searching but everywhere i look they want money for it
![]() does anyone know where i can find the free fsi verion?
i have the pdf file already and its great but i would like to know if im pronoucing the words right. the CD's would be a huge help.
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liddytime
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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I have the Igbo tapes and can digitize them (eventually...)
Right now I am working on the Serbo-Croatian tapes.
If you can do the digitizing work I can send them out to you. Realistically it would be late March-Early April before I could get to it.
BL
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aceofspadezs
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 February 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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ok i would love to help if i can. how do you digitize the tapes? how would the process work?
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Chung
Contributor ![]() Joined: 23 May 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143 |
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1) Get Audacity on your computer (it's an open-source piece of software that you can download at soundforge.org)
2) Buy a stereo cable (3.5 mm diameter, male-male). 3) Insert one end of the cable into the tape deck's headphone jack. 4) Insert the other end of the cable into the computer's mike or line-in jack. 5) Run Audacity on your computer. 6) Play the tape in the tape deck. 7) Press the record button on Audacity's "dashboard" 8) Audacity will record whatever audio comes from the tape deck. 9) This process cannot be accelerated (i.e. everything is in "real-time"), so when the tape is done, press the stop button on Audacity's dashboard. 10) Audacity will give you options to remove hiss ("noise removal"), amplify ("amplify"), normalize, add tracks (when you want to create audio that can be heard as MP3 or as standard audio on a CD (.wav)) etc. what you've recorded. 11) If you happy with what you've recorded, Audacity will give you the option to convert the audio to MP3, .wav or .ogg. If I remember correctly Demipuppet converted his audio as .wav files, burned these files to CD and mailed them to gdfellows for posting. When I digitalized the Finnish audio, I converted all of the audio to MP3 before sending the files to gdfellows using yousendit.com. I guess that my way saved a little time for gdfellows, but it meant more work on my part. In any case, gdfellows will appreciate any help regardless of whether you digitalize original FSI audio into .wav or MP3 files. 12) Before converting the audio to MP3 files, you can adjust bitrates. When converting speech into MP3 files, files that are done as mono at 32 kilobytes per second are good enough. (for comparison's sake 128 kilobytes per second is very close to the quality that you hear on CDs) This also has the added advantage of being a good balance between voice quality and space use on your hard drive. (In general, 1 minute worth of audio in a MP3 file converted at 128 kilobytes per second will use 1 MB of space. 1 minute worth of audio in a MP3 file converted at 32 kilobytes per second will use 0.25 MB of space.) |
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Uchenna
Newbie ![]() Joined: 25 March 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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I was wondering about the status on the digitalization of the igbo tapes. I have been really anticipating the release and I've made a resolution to become semi-fluent by the end of the year. Please please let me know if there is anything I can do to expediate the process. Thanks in advance.
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liddytime
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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I'm on it as we speak.
Give me a week or 2! BL ![]() |
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liddytime
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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Finished the Igbo mp3s!!
Unfortunately I am missing units 4,5 and 6. If anyone else has these that would be great! -BL Edited by liddytime - 30 March 2008 at 11:45am |
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Uchenna
Newbie ![]() Joined: 25 March 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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Awesome. Can you send them to me? How do I access/download them?
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liddytime
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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Go to this link
http://www.vuze.com/details/WKBPZZYTVUY43M4JZFFZHCEKJWFRIZ4O.html Ive put the mp3 files up on azureus and I'll leave 'em up for a month or so. I'll also put up the hausa and serbo-croatian files. I don't have the specific link addresses yet for those. BL |
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aceofspadezs
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 February 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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what azureus?
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