Community Challenge: You Create the Stormtrooper Dialogue

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:15:48 +0000

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If you’re complaining that there’s no audio… that’s the whole point to this community challenge; YOU are being asked to provide the soundtrack / dialogue.

Yes, it’s your task to download this video, remix it with your own audio, then upload it as a video response to this one.

You don’t have to use the entire video, mind you – just what you might find interesting or fun to play with. And yes, you’re supposed to have fun with this challenge!

If you’re going for that “stormtrooper voice” sound, might I suggest processing your vocal audio through a high-pass filter and/or eliminate all bass, maximizing mid and treble.

You can email your questions to Ask a Stormtrooper. Perhaps they will be featured in an upcoming video segment.

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Dialogues with Dialect: How Do You Pronounce a Word?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:48:47 +0000

Dialogues with Dialect: How Do You Pronounce a Word?

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You may think that words of the same language are pronounced the same, no matter what country you may be in. This isn’t always the case. There can be many different dialects. What do you do if you are going to travel, and want to be sure you’re pronouncing important words correctly? Forvo can help.

Forvo is an online pronouncing dictionary. We want to have all the words that exist in the world pronounced and recorded, including names. Forvo isn´t for large audio files or documents. Audio clips are limited to 2.5 seconds, long enough for any word.

We mean that almost every word is allowed, including bad words. We think that it´s not the word what´s wrong but the way of saying or context that makes a word removable. Anyway, words are limited to 40 characters. Onomatopoeias, exclamations or so are not allowed.

We know there are completely different pronunciations depending on the country or region, even in the same language. So, why don´t you pronounce yourself that word with your accent? Forvo support multiple pronunciations for the same word. That way users learning a language can hear pronunciation from different places.

Did you know there are 197 languages in the World? The World isn’t even that big! So the next time you need to learn how to pronounce something, or even just want to learn something new for the fun of it… check out Forvo.

And yes, I finally stopped laughing about an hour after I finished recording this.

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Community Challenge: You Create the Stormtrooper Dialogue

Dialogues with Dialect: How Do You Pronounce a Word?