I talked of this briefly with Erinn this morning (for me)/night (for her). I'm currently building a nice thingy with no name yet but which could be called "Bubulle's Automagic Babelbox" or something similar.:-)
The idea is getting a machine which constantly installs itself over and over, using the new Debian Installer, of course. The install successively runs in each of the 41 languages d-i is translated in, up to a fully operational desktop system. Then, it opens a session, waits for a while, then reboots and installs itself in the next language. This box will probably be presented on the Debian booth at the Solutions Linux expo in Paris (Feb. 2005). The ultimate goal is of course a useless world record and a nice demo on how Debian is hard to install (as we keep reading that). At the end of the session opening, I planned to have the box playing a nice welcome message in the current language. *Here* I need you. Of course, I could just ask the 41 translators of D-I to just record the messages themselves, but that would give us a nice collection of grave voices of all these bearded geeks...:-) I must have half of the voices to be female voices. At the moment, I have: English: Erinn French: myself So, please just record yourself saying "Hello and welcome to your new Debian system in <language>" where <language> is of course your own language name. Example: "Bonjour et bienvenue sur votre nouveau système Debian en français" Then just put the result somewhere to be picked up and give the URL here. Thus, everyone will be able to listen to your nice voice...and I'll be able to pick up the files I need. Don't hesitate to record yourself even if someone else already did it for your language. After all, we will later be able to collect all these voices and keep it on the d-w web site... Of course, those of you who speak a quite "rare" language are privileged and have more chance to be part of the game....:) Please note that these files are likely to be used in a public event and just don't record yourself if you don't want your voice to be used that way. Finally, I do not need ONLY female voices....so even bearded old-fashioned geeks are welcome....just go and pick up your mike..... The list of d-i supported languages: (Sacha, sorry, Tagalog is not here yet....) Arabic Bulgarian Bosnian Catalan Czech Welsh Danish German Greek English Erinn Clark Spanish Basque Persian Finnish French Christian Perrier Galician Hebrew Croatian Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Latvian Norwegian Bokmal Dutch Norwegian Nynorsk Polish Portuguese Portuguese (brazil) Romanian Russian Northern Sami Slovakian Slovenian Albanese Serbian Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) --
