Wikipedia talk:Spoken articles

message: Currently it reads:
* Bolded article titles refer to featured articles.
* Articles also marked with  have been featured, with an audio link, on the Main Page.
But for consistency with existing practice, shouldn't it be the other way around? The Featured articles page has an image  for spoken articles, and bold for appearance on the main page. I think this page should follow the established tradition, or else it can get kind of confusing. — Timwi 13:07, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marking of articles 

message: So is there a good reason to have the same information listed "three" times on the page?  --CGP 22:05, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the information in the table should be merged into the sections.  That leaves the info listed just twice (once by topic, and once automatically and alphabetically).  — Chameleon 00:27, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant Info 

message: Who makes these recordings, and how can we request that an article is spoken? -007bond aka Matthew G aka codingmasters 21:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi - check out :Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests; there is a request template there.  Also, the main project page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia -SCEhardT 17:46, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who makes these? 

message: The new icon for oggs is acquard, fussy, and dreadful. Where is the forum for discussing this. Thanks. Ceoil 19:55, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't really an issue specific to this project (see uses of the multi-listen template, and I'm sure there are others).  I'd suggest bringing up the issue at the village pump. -SCEhardT 22:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where

message: There is a discussion underway at Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Hidden categories concerning what kinds of categories should be hidden (using the new HIDDENCAT magic word). For the moment it is proposed that hiding be applied to all categories which classify the article rather than the article subject (i.e. maintenance cats, stub cats, etc. and this category). Please weigh in. --Kotniski (talk) 08:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this should be a hidden category, but I'm not sure where/how to 'weigh in' on that page. —ScouterSig 23:21, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a category for visitors, not just for maintenance doing Wikipedians, so I would suggest to keep it visible. Jcbos (talk) 20:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hidden categories discussion

message: how can i add these spoken articles to podcast of iTunes  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.151.182 (talk) 11:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: podcast of articles

message: That's a bit disrespectful to Sports. Or plain overgeneralization. --AaThinker (talk) 14:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports together with video games 

message: They can be used to jog while listening on an mp3 device. (Referring to a comment above saying this is "only" for the disabled). --94.71.106.211 (talk) 17:13, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course it's not! Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia#Benefits  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Temporal Fugitive (talk • contribs) 15:05, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is NOT only for blind people 

message: Hi, iv been thinking, cant we put these pages in collasping templates?
it would make it a lot easier to browse the page
and different versions could be added to the articles themselfs
let me know your thoughts 
Sghfdhdfghdfgfd (talk) 15:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaspable Template 

message: Just listen to the example of Portal Prelude voices: http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/09/day-sixteen-about-voices.php Three male voices used in the game sound prefect. http://www.acapela-group.com was used there. GrayFace (talk)
: i used a text to speech program to make Syston & rearsby and will be using them on the other pages i am making. even though it takes a long time to ajust the timings for them, the output is very clear and understandable. also, having a voice what sounds like they know what they are talking about goes into your mind better.
: also, in the software licence, the output is not under any copyright restrictions.
:: I think that there is a need in a special category for automatically created audio files., e.g. :Category:Text to speech spoken articles. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 05:46, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just tried listening to "Syston". I don't like this artificial voice at all. It grates on the ears, unpleasant. Axl ¤ [Talk] 09:39, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  This sounds just like every other text to speech software. Halting, grating and terrible. Wait 5 years and maybe google will finally get it right.--RaptorHunter (talk) 18:04, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I use a Text-To-Speech. -Jack (User:Jacksalssome) (talk) 03:59, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about Text To Speech? 

message: I think that this project would be useful at Wikiversity. It's sometimes easier to learn when listening to stuff, and it will be a great aid for visually impaired students, as many coursebooks aren't in braille. Thoughts? ManishEarthTalk • Stalk 05:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  'versity? 

message: T2S and all other computer generated articles should either have their own section or their entries should be distinct enough to be able to tell that that's what they are without having to open them. If no objections arise, I shall proceed with making their entries distinct (I'm thinking underlined gray). Temporal Fugitive (talk) 07:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Computer Generated 

message: There are many spoken articles that no longer bear even the slightest resemblance to the current text version. I think those articles (eg dinosaur) should be indicated in the list. Serendipodous 20:12, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Goog idea. It may be the number as superscript which indicates number of years passed after the recording. E.g. the article Wikipedia3 was recorded 3 years ago. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 17:32, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Indications of substantial change

message: Please consider providing subcategories according the dialects of the speakers narrating the articles.  This request is prompted by a question in a discussion at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language.  (This talk page is on my watchlist, and I will watch here for a reply or replies.) 
—Wavelength (talk) 06:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategorization by dialect 

message: There are spoken articles, which are not listed in this list:
* Royal Maundy - audio files: :File:Royal Maundy 1.ogg, :File:Royal Maundy 2.ogg;
* YouTube - audio file: :File:Youtube spoken word.ogg;
* Alexi Salamone - audio file: :File:En-Alexi Salamone.ogg.
Please, add to appropriate section. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 19:20, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 08:58, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken articles missed in the list 

message: This section contains too many "Erotic" spoken articles. I propose to make a separate subsection titled "Sexuality". -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 08:58, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Culture and society" section and "Erotic" spoken articles 

message: The audio :File:Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College.ogg is very similar to the computer generated audio. If it is true, then it should be Grayed out. 
English native speakers, please, check it. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 06:59, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's definitely computer generated; thanks for pointing that out.Derfel73 (talk) 10:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Computer generated audio? 

message: I learn Japanese and me very need that page. But I cannot find it. Haven't Japanese people recorded audio articles?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.8.152.168 (talk) 19:39, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help to find same page in Japanese 

message: I have added a recording for [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, but it doesn't show up as it should, can somebody fix this for me --TheChampionMan1234 04:58, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you help me? 

message: If somebody want to create spoken version of article, which have some words/phrases in Russian, then I can record these Russian words for you and upload to Commons. Because Russian is my native language. I hope that the result spoken article (with mix of native Russian and native English) will be more high quality spoken article. :) -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 12:28, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken articles related to Russian 

message: All the podcasts I listen to include music and some have sound effects. - These can serve nicely as an audio equivalent of chapter markings and block text.  However I haven't heard any spoken articles using these, and the result comes out rather dry.  Is there a policy?  Also, if an article about a TV show included background music from the show in question, (under me reading the article) would that pass as fair use?  Algr (talk) 22:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: For sure audio samples, sound effects, etc. could enrich a recording. As there is no policy, it's up to every speaker to be creative. Beside voiding copyright infringements it's also not easy to mix speech and music together on a even level. Background music tends to be annoying and as far as I know it's not a fair use, as you don't only play a sample (see: music samples). --LordOider (talk) 22:33, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  For music beds and chapter markings, I'd use something royalty free, or something I wrote myself.  I figured I'd play the first few seconds of a theme song for the title.  Algr (talk) 04:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music and SFX in spoken articles 

message: I'm wondering if there is a way to gain bulk access to (meta)data on the spoken wikipedia files, e.g. file length, user, accent? Which script or workflow would allow you to export this data into an easy table format? Anyone know of an easy fix, or willing to help make it happen?
Incidentally, are the data on files added only by the author, or also by later reviewers?
Pusle8 (talk) 10:40, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Data on spoken wikipedia files 

message: The torrent link on the page referred to seems broken. Is there an updated version? Pusle8 (talk) 10:40, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: thank you for this comment. Yes, there are some problems. Please, try this torrent: whinger.krc.karelia.ru/wp/t3505863.torrent from my home page. If it is okey, then I will update torrent link on the page Wikipedia:Spoken articles. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 14:36, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Downloading the collection 

message: Is this page automatically updated via some categories (couldn't find local markings) or is this curated, and updated as the moderators manage too keep up? Pusle8 (talk) 10:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is curated. Adding your recording to the page is part of the workflow of creating a spoken wikipedia article (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia#How_to_create_a_spoken_article). When you add your recording to the article, you add it to the appropriate section. I suspect the categorization would make it difficult to update this with a bot, but I think that there might be a possibility to have a less neatly curated list (maybe to double check that everyone's adding their recordings to this page). 0x0077BE (talk · contrib) 14:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of the page 

message: Bhutanese Passport lol, seriously?TomemPL (talk) 16:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Bhutanese Passport-1.ogg|Bhutanese Passport]] 

message: I would like to record articles in my free-time, but I don't have very much of it. If I had an easy way to find short articles, are any strategies to optimize recording, it would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Tanzensally (talk) 09:06, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finding short articles to record 

message: Many articles use this template when the first word of the article title is "The" which leads, unfortunately, to an unnecessary repeat of "the". Can someone please fix this or at least tell me why you can't Jodosma (talk) 20:42, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The the" 

message: There appear to be articles that were recorded as spoken articles many years ago where the pages have likely changed significantly since and need re-recording. Is there any way to highlight this? If not I think it would be handy if we could implement a way to highlight outdated spoken articles (perhaps a new template?). For example the spoken article for the Avril Lavigne page has not been updated in over 9 years. Helper201 (talk) 22:07, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be great! I don't know how to do that. There are audio recordings going all the way back to 2006. Right now we have a limited amount of people recording audio so it's difficult to field requests. Peppage (talk) 04:37, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any way to ask for a spoken article to be updated/re-recorded? 

message: This is not even a project page per se. I have removed the text "If you have more questions, please ask the project coordinator,  on their talk page." from the prominent box at the top of the page, because of concerns about ownership of content and Wikipedia's third pillar. There has been some discussion about this at User talk:Galendalia, and I would be surprised if there is consensus for adding this text, after all what has been discussed. If anyone else than the "project coordinator" agrees to include the text, I'd be surprised. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:08, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "please ask the project coordinator" 

message: Helllo, I completed my first recording which is found in the music section. However I seemed to mess up the upload part because it has a page on here but a duplicate on Commons. I looked at the instructions on WP:CMF but this seems to be from an older version, made me more confused. The recording itself is okay. I know for the future I will just use Commons... 
Is there a way u can delete the other version? Thanks Grey.vs.gray (talk) 00:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking to commons 

message: Is there an place in this project (or another project) for people like me who have been recording the poems that are in some articles? ~~~ Back ache (talk) 11:46, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poetry 

message: Welcome to use the following collection of music files with free licenses (Creative Commons BY, CC BY-SA, and similar licenses):
* Open License Music 2008-2013 (Jamendo) — this torrent at Academic Torrents contains music with free license, which could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons or incorporated into your spoken version of audio article. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 21:29, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music for spoken articles 

message: Could spoken versions of articles be created for Simple English Wikipedia and/or other languages? I am interested in creating spoken audio files over there. It seems like spoken articles would be particularly useful there. Thoughts, anyone? Alanasings (talk) 20:14, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple English Wikipedia? 

message: Abiogenesis is listed here, but the article does not seem to have the audio files attached to it? Should it be removed from the list of Spoken articles? Alanasings (talk) 20:43, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abiogenesis audio files?