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| Chapter: Part 01 |
| Reader: lezer (Anna Simon) |
| URL link to audio: majoorfrans_01_bosboomtoussaint.wav |
Hello,
I read about this project on the Librivox forums. I've recently started to record some Dutch audiobooks at Librivox - one finished at the moment. Have I understood correctly that you can also use Dutch language recordings? And if so, does it matter whether it is modern, up-to-date, Dutch or 19th century as in this book?
I've uploaded part 01 of Majoor Frans by A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint - the etext is available on Gutenberg (20794-8), but I've also uploaded a txt-file of just the section that I'm reading (the book doesn't have chapters). Let me know if you can use such recordings - if so, I have more than 12 hours of such recordings which I could submit - bit by bit.
Regards,
Anna
--- (Edited on 9/7/2007 10:39 pm [GMT-0500] by lezer) ---
Hi Anna,
Thanks for your submission!
>Have I understood correctly that you can also use Dutch language recordings?
Yes, Robin is the lead on the Dutch corpus, and has started recording his own speech.
>And if so, does it matter whether it is modern, up-to-date, Dutch or 19th century as in this book?
This should not be a problem from a speech audio perspective. It might take a bit of work to add archaic words to the Dutch pronunciation dictionary, but this is d-doable.
>Let me know if you can use such recordings - if so, I have more than 12 hours of such recordings which I could submit - bit by bit.
That would be great! Any and all contributions are greatly appreciated.Thanks for your interest in VoxForge.
Ken
--- (Edited on 9/8/2007 5:21 pm [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---