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fantastic resource for accents

Frank — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:37:19 +0000

I love accents and regional dialects, so I was enthralled to find IDEA, the International Dialects of English Archive. There are some interesting samples available, but unfortunately they seem to have a somewhat harsh view on what you can do with them. There also seems some confusion on what rights they give out. The above “copyright” page states:

You may play an IDEA recording or text file in a lecture, class, training session, or workshop directly from the internet, or your students may do so from their own individual terminals, without obtaining special permission; but distributing copies of them either by disc or by digital file, requires special permission and the payment of an appropriate fee.

Yet the front page of the site states:

Once you have chosen a recording to download, simply click on it and save it — at no cost to you!

And when you get to a page of samples it states even more forcefully:

**IMPORTANT** In order to properly play these soundfiles, you must first save them to your hard drive! Please right-click on the desired sample and choose to save it to your computer. Our server does not support streaming audio at this time.

I leave it to you to work out what you actually may or may not do.

Via Complications ensue.

Idiotprogrammer » Blog Archive » Good Audio for Video Production

Frank — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:33:16 +0000

Robert Nagle (a.k.a “idiotprogrammer”) is also cruising the web taking note of useful stuff for video. Today I spotted that he had collected some useful links about Audio for Video Production.

Check it out.

Walter Murch on understanding sound in film

Frank — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:20:40 +0000

Via DV for Teachers, a really thought-provoking article about the deep nature of film sound, and its relationship to the images. From one of the top film sound guys. I strongly recommend you read this if you have ever even thought about making video or film.

Read the article at: Walter Murch