Re: Pronunciation recording tool wanted

Amgine, 13/03/2013 20:24:
> The benefit of a web app/service is the extremely low hurdle for users
> to become contributors (the original reason for wikipedia, remember.)

Sure. However, main loss of time is IMHO:
1) configuring your recording software to work with your hardware (Linux 
or Windows, I never managed to do it – not enough incentives of course);
2) cutting and possibly converting and renaming the recording into an 
audio file suitable for upload (and this for many files of few seconds – 
can't even imagine starting);
3) uploading it to Commons with all that this means.
Finding words to pronounce and adding the audio files are minor problems.
In short, I think that a tool integrating steps 1–3 would be so wondeful 
that the small burden of installing it wouldn't be an obstacle, in short 
it's not worth being a requirement in my opinion.
However, Google Hangout shows that sometimes web applications are 
smarter at interacting with hardware than local applications, and my 
competence is close to zero, so my point is probably moot. (Sorry for 
wasting even more of your time by elaborating on it.)

Nemo

>
> jQuery has a range of modules for simplifying uploads, but presumably
> it would be better as an api call[1].
>
> A simple search on programmableweb.com finds a rather large range of
> tools which might be mashed into this project, including transcription
> (though I did not see an IPA transcription). There is a related
> project[3] found through pw which connects words to video of
> contextual use and pronunciation (en-only, I think.)

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