On 3/12/13, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > In Wiktionary, it's very convenient that some words > have sound illustrations, e.g. > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go%C3%BBter > > These audio bites are simple 2-3 second OGG files, e.g. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg > > but they are limited in number. It would be very > easy to record more of them, but before you get > started it takes some time to learn the details, > and then you need to upload to Commons and specify > a license, and provide a description, ... It's not > very likely that the person who does all that is > also a good voice in each desired language. > > Here's a better plan: > > Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other > server, having a simple link syntax that specifies > the language code and the text, e.g. > http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=fr&text=gouter > > The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this > user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0. > At the first visit, this question is asked as a > click-through license. > > The user is now prompted with the text (from the URL) > and recording starts when pressing a button. The > user says the word, and presses the button again. > The tool saves the OGG sound, uploads it to Commons > with the filename fr-gouter-XYZ789.ogg and > the cc0 declaration and all metadata, placing it > in a category of recorded but unverified words. > > Another user can record the same word, and it will > be given another random letter-digit code. > > As a separate part of the tool, other volunteers are > asked to verify or rate (1 to 5 stars) the recordings > available in a given language. The rating is stored > as categories on commons. > > Now, a separate procedure (manual or a bot job) can > pick words that need new or improved recordings, > and list them (with links to the tool) on a normal > wiki page. > > I know HTML supports uploading of a file, but I don't > know how to solve the recording of sound directly to > a web service. Perhaps this could be a Skype application? > I have no idea. Please just be creative. It should be > solvable, because this is 2013 and not 2003. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to actually do it. With modern web browsers, you can do it with html5/webRTC [1]. Someone could probably make an extension that integrates with MediaWiki, so all user has to do is go to special:recordAudio and they could record/upload from there. Perhaps that would make a good gsoc project (Not sure if the scope is big enough, but could probably add stuff like making a slick ui to make it big enough). [1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
