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IGBO? HELP ! ! ! !

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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:02am


Topic: IGBO? HELP ! ! ! !
Posted By: aceofspadezs
Subject: IGBO? HELP ! ! ! !
Date Posted: 22 February 2008 at 6:16pm
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 Cry. the cheapest i found was at
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/igbo.html - http://www.multilingualbooks.com/igbo.html
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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Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 23 February 2008 at 8:42am
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


Posted By: aceofspadezs
Date Posted: 23 February 2008 at 1:30pm
ok i would love to help if i can. how do you digitize the tapes? how would the process work?


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 23 February 2008 at 6:31pm
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.)


Posted By: Uchenna
Date Posted: 25 March 2008 at 5:43pm
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.


Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 26 March 2008 at 6:18pm
I'm on it as we speak.

Give me a week or 2!


BL



Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 11:39am
Finished the Igbo mp3s!!

Unfortunately I am missing units 4,5 and 6. If anyone else has these that would be great!
-BL


Posted By: Uchenna
Date Posted: 31 March 2008 at 12:11am
Awesome.  Can you send them to me? How do I access/download them?


Posted By: liddytime
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 1:32pm
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


Posted By: aceofspadezs
Date Posted: 14 April 2008 at 9:51pm
what azureus?


Posted By: toivo
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 11:48am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azureus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azureus


Posted By: Happiness
Date Posted: 20 April 2008 at 3:22am
I offered to donate my Igbo MP3s last year. How do I do this? If there is a way that I can upload them, then I will do it as quickly as I can over my slow internet connection. I am not able to mail them.




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