Hi Luke, Thanks for your mail, I appreciate the input on this subject.
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:43 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: > I happen to agree with this. On one hand it would be great to see UWN in > audio form, however, to > do it justice, the work required every week, or even every two weeks is > great, in terms of > recording, proofing, and audio editing. I'd say it's considerably less work than creating the written version of UWN. It took me about an hour to create the sample version, and that required fairly low effort. > You would also have to be sure that the quality of > reading is good enough for all listeners to understand, and ensure > consistancy between issues of > the news letter, in terms of headings, URLs, etc. > I agree that there needs to be some minimum quality standards, yes. > Added to that, there is having to consider those people who are not English > speakers. Are you > really going to find people willing to record something every 1 or two weeks, > who speak other > languages? There is once again, the issues I outlined above. > I don't know. We could ask the loco teams for help with recording their own localised versions of course. > By all means, if you wish to go ahead and do so, do it. What I've said above > is my opinion only, > and nobody is going to try and stop you from doing it. However, having had > experience with audio > production of such material, I know the time required is very demanding, if > you want something > that is good enough for people to regularly download and listen to it. I appreciate that, yes. Thanks, Cheers, Al.
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