Extension talk:PronunciationRecording/GSoC 2013/Proposal

Thoughts
This looks like a good proposal. I had a couple thoughts. I'm not sure the CAPTCHA is necessary. I doubt that many people will go to the trouble of recording bogus pronunciations. I think it's simpler to have numeric codes. The first has no code or just -1. The second has -2, etc. Superm401 - Talk 20:25, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure ill be removing the captcha thing,seems redundant to me now and the small problem i feel is that using webRTC the the pronunciation file that will be downloaded is in the .wav format.So in order to upload it to wikimedia commons i need to convert it into .ogg,i am little stuck on this conversion thing .Thanks for replying--Rahul21 (talk) 14:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Noise filtering, and trim start/end silence
Perhaps as a later phase of this project, optional noise filtering would be good. I always use the Noise Reduction command in GoldWave after recording a pronunciation, and it makes it a lot clearer. Also are you going to trim any periods of silence at the start and end? 86.164.200.121 15:47, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

List
If I were to record pronunciations, I would record a list of words all at once. E.g., the user provides a list of words (or phrases), and the recorder then asks to record each item one after the other (the pronunciations can be saved progressively or at the end, I don't know what is the best option). This would be much easier than recording every word individually. To give a concrete example, I don't want to record all the forms of this verb separately (although they will end up in different files). Same for categories and other lists. Darkdadaah (talk) 18:07, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Translations
Do not forget to make the tool so that it can be translated and used in other languages (cf Translatewiki.net). Darkdadaah (talk) 18:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Words with different pronunciations
Do not forget also that in one language a word can be pronounced differently. E.g. en:read in English. The name of the file should reflect that. Darkdadaah (talk) 18:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)