From http://blog.mightyverse.com/2011/06/300-languages-record-a-thon/
On July 30th, 2011 we will meet at the Internet Archive in San
Francisco, where volunteers will record the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights <http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml>
(UDHR) in their native language(s). Mightyverse volunteers will
assist recording at several recording stations. Each station will be
equiped with a video camera, monitor, lighting, microphone and
Mightyverse PhraseFarm teleprompter system to enable the capture of
spoken language. These high quality recordings of native speakers
will be made available at archive.org <http://archive.org/> under a
Creative Commons license.
Mightyverse is excited to support the Long Now Foundation
<http://longnow.org/>’s 300 languages project in its July 30th 2011
record-a-thon <http://rosettaproject.org/record-a-thon/>. The goal
of the 300 languages project is to record spoken language that has
parallel translations in at least 300 languages. Towards that
effort, Laura Welcher and her team at The Rosetta Project
<http://rosettaproject.org/> (an ongoing effort by The Long Now
Foundation) have identified texts that already exist in parallel
translations. Of those texts, we at Mightyverse were especially
excited by the UDHR.
Signup for UDHR Recording:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEM2cW9wSm4za0VmSHZwTEI2amxhNUE6MQ
Also, it will be a fun day with free form language recording, some
speakers at the beginning of the day and at lunch and there'll be food
and prizes for people who record.
Eric.
