🍎 New Turkish Voice

Pinari has started off with contributing over 90 audio files.

https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...how/170243/und

🍎 Longish English Sentences - Audio by Auride

https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...how/169883/und

Most of these have Japanese translations, since many are from the Tanaka Corpus.

Here are some accounts with non-American English audio.

Australia
http://tatoeba.org/audio/of/dcampbell
http://tatoeba.org/audio/of/patgfisher
http://tatoeba.org/audio/of/rhys_mcg

UK
http://tatoeba.org/audio/of/BE
http://tatoeba.org/audio/of/Cainntear (Scotland)

Deniko asked about identifying (regional) accents of the voices, so I thought it would be more useful to group audio files by speaker than to dump all the audio files into one account. This way, the profile page of each could include information we know about a given voice.

Also, when proof-listening to the audio files, it works well to focus on audio files by voices that sound good and ignore those with with low quality (noise, too quiet, long pauses, etc.) audio. This saves a lot of time, since a much higher percentage of audio files listened to can actually be used.

It seems that the voices with a very large number of files have audio files with a much higher recording quality. I suspect that these were created offline using software like the Shtooka Recorder, and were not recorded using the Common Voice online recorder.

Reference:
Deniko's comment on the Wall.
https://tatoeba.org/en/wall/sho...#message_38730

Remember for our use, any suggestion needs to work well at 30 X 20 pixels.

https://imgur.com/a/BcNzSFN

30 X 20 pixels - Eliahu21's suggestion - Objectivesea's suggestion - Part of the Bowl as a Flag

The third one is just an experiment to see how selecting part of the mentioned bowl to be used as a flag on tatoeba.org might look.

🍎 Hundreds of New Audio Files Added from Common Voice

English
https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...&has_audio=yes

Turkish
https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...&has_audio=yes

Japanese
https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...&has_audio=yes

🍎 Sentences with 70 or More Links

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/lotsoflinks.html

I created this just for fun, and thought some of you might be interested.

We now have 999,999 Sentences with Audio

https://tatoeba.org/en/audio/index

Screenshot at 05:48 UTC on 2022-06-06

https://imgur.com/a/MBZqyTc

For those interested, you can hear multiple voices from Common Voice on several proverbs.

https://tatoeba.org/en/audio/of/CVAF

83 audio files for the 5 sentences.

More than one audio file per sentence is now possible.

[#280288] Birds of a feather flock together.

Click the audio play button over and over again to hear various voices.
This example sentence has about 30 audio files, as a test.

> ... hiding "indirect translations" ... maybe give users the choice to show them anyway but not as the default.

Making the showing of "indirect translations" an opt-in choice, rather than the default, would make things less confusing.

This way, new members and non-members would not be confused by these.

Minimally, perhaps we could make "indirect translations" not show to anyone with less than "advanced contributor" status, since they don't have the option to link these.

[Edited on 2022-06-20 to include the following Github link.]

Make the showing of "indirect translations" an opt-in choice
https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2/issues/2938

> But how did the first two English sentences get linked together? How can "He is running" be ever equivalent to "You run"?

You will notice that these are not directly linked. It's not only possible that pronouns can be different when translating, since some languages don't use pronouns, but verb forms can easily be different for indirect translations.

As long as this Romanian sentence can be correctly translated by all the directly-linked English sentences, then there is no problem.

Since this is specifically about a given sentence, I think you should leave the comment on the sentence itself, instead of on the Wall.

[#2794282] Nu e niciodată prea târziu pentru a învăța. (carlosalberto)

**A Brief History of the Tatoeba Project **

http://bit.ly/tatoebahistory

Perhaps some of our newer members might be interested in this.

It hasn't been recently updated. Perhaps someone would volunteer to maintain this.

This is a related Wall post

https://tatoeba.org/en/wall/sho...#message_36430

And another relataed GitHub issue.

https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2/issues/1830

@TRANG

Perhaps you could create a place on tatoeba.org for people to submit links like on http://bit.ly/tatoebalinks .

I know it would be possible to use the Wiki for this, but maybe something similar to the vocabulary request layout, with 4 fields might be better.

Website Title:
Website URL:
Brief Description:
Date added to the list: (auto-generated)

Allow members to sort by Title or by Date.

It would be useful if we could have more than one kind of comment for sentences and opt in to getting email messages only for the kind of comments we wanted to have emailed to us.

* suggested corrections. (I would opt in for emails for this kind of comment.)

* socializing, arguments, cute quotes, thanks, etc. (I would opt out.)

* "Related" / "Annotations" / comments about the sentence. (I would opt out.)

There is a (closed) 2015 GitHub issue related to this idea.

https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2/issues/808

** Sentences with Audio Files from Public Domain Audiobooks

https://tatoeba.org/activities/...entences_of/LW
https://tatoeba.org/activities/...entences_of/RM
https://tatoeba.org/activities/...ntences_of/ASV
https://tatoeba.org/activities/...ntences_of/MHB

Here's another LibriVox reader, added on 2022-05-04.

https://tatoeba.org/activities/...entences_of/SR

It looked like your comment was added to this comment.

https://tatoeba.org/en/wall/sho...#message_38552

So, I thought you were commenting about having sentences on that list show in a random order.