User:Hassocks5489/Spoken

WikiProject: Spoken Wikipedia

People allege that I have a good speaking voice (well, anything's better than my singing voice), and I have the necessary equipment—a microphone and Audacity, a digital audio editor—and so since 2007 I have made many contributions to Wikipedia's Spoken Wikipedia project, which coordinates the creation of narrations of articles which can then be listened to "on-the-fly" or downloaded for later use.

I tend to narrate stable Featured articles, where the prose is unlikely to change much over time. Fast-moving subject matter is something to avoid in this enterprise. I will happily accept requests for spoken articles, subject to time constraints (it is quite a time-intensive process) and not having too many awkward pronunciations!

Contributions so far:

Article	FA?	Spoken version	Length	Date recorded
James Bulger		Spoken version	20:08	18 February 2007
Docklands Light Railway		Spoken version	24:39	24 February 2007
1994 San Marino Grand Prix		Spoken version	25:32	25 February 2007
Weymouth		Spoken version	26:25	25 February 2007
Premier League		Spoken version	34:46	4 March 2007
Whuppity Scoorie Day		Spoken version	3:07	7 March 2007
Coronation Street		Spoken version	37:51	11 March 2007
Sheffield		Spoken version	39:32	1 April 2007
1991 Hamlet chicken processing plant fire		Spoken version	23:37	2 April 2007
Chelsea F.C.		Spoken version	32:40	7 April 2007
Arsenal F.C.		Spoken version	45:28	15 April 2007
Everton F.C.		Spoken version	35:02	16 May 2007
Gillingham F.C.		Spoken version	24:46	19 May 2007
York City F.C.		Spoken version	30:31	20 May 2007
Manchester City F.C.		Spoken version	28:21	21 May 2007
Norwich City F.C.		Spoken version	38:03	16 June 2007
Ipswich Town F.C.		Spoken version	29:11	24 June 2007
Sheffield Wednesday F.C.		Spoken version	28:00	8 July 2007
Countdown (game show)		Spoken version	23:44	15 July 2007
All Blacks		Spoken version	46:36	29 July 2007
Shaw and Crompton		Spoken version	47:28	27 August 2007
Aston Villa F.C.		Spoken version	34:36	4 September 2007
Cricket		Spoken version	47:30	8 October 2007
Leek Town F.C.		Spoken version	15:50	20 October 2007
Margate F.C.		Spoken version	23:19	25 October 2007
Peterborough		Spoken version	58:37	27 November 2007
Altrincham		Spoken version	36:23	2 February 2008
Manchester (in two parts)		Part 1 ~ Part 2	58:19	3 February 2008
Oldham		Spoken version	56:49	10 February 2008
Sheerness		Spoken version	21:16	10 February 2008
M62 motorway		Spoken version	31:19	10 February 2008
Westgate-on-Sea		Spoken version	26:39	16 February 2008
Birchington-on-Sea		Spoken version	27:33	9 March 2008
Herne Bay, Kent		Spoken version	35:25	12 March 2008
William Shakespeare		Spoken version	47:44	11 April 2008
Stretford		Spoken version	44:06	12 April 2008
Peterloo Massacre		Spoken version	37:08	17 April 2008
Brownhills		Spoken version	34:44	5 May 2008
Dover Athletic F.C.		Spoken version	17:00	3 June 2008
Germany (in two parts)		Part 1 ~ Part 2	83:58	24 June 2008
Exmoor		Spoken version	25:29	21 July 2008
Subarachnoid haemorrhage		Spoken version	32:43	9 August 2008
Trafford		Spoken version	42:45	25 August 2008
Alzheimer's Disease		Spoken version	46:24	12 September 2008
1995 Pacific Grand Prix		Spoken version	32:40	21 October 2008
1995 Japanese Grand Prix		Spoken version	28:15	31 October 2008
Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal		Spoken version	50:39	11 November 2008
Scout Moor Wind Farm		Spoken version	17:45	26 January 2009
Hellingly Hospital Railway		Spoken version	12:28	19 March 2009
Luton Town F.C.		Spoken version	35:49	7 November 2009
John Douglas (architect)		Spoken version	34:57	8 April 2010
Stephens City, Virginia		Spoken version	32:14	7 December 2010

Pronunciations

I have also produced a number of sound clips of British place names: the largest towns and cities, and a range of smaller places with awkward or unexpected pronunciations. More may follow in the future, with any luck:

Aigburth · Alcester · Aldeburgh · Alnwick · Altrincham · Barnstaple · Beaconsfield · Beaulieu · Berwick-upon-Tweed · Bicester · Billericay · Birmingham · Blackburn · Blackley · Blackpool · Bolton · Bournemouth · Bradford · Bradley · Brewood · Brighton · Bristol · Burgh-by-Sands · Cambridge · Canterbury · Chiswick · Colchester · Coventry · Crawley · Derby · Dudley · Eastbourne · Elsecar · Ely · Erith · Esher · Exeter · Fowey · Frome · Gateacre · Gillingham (Dorset) · Gillingham (Kent) · Gloucester · Greenwich · Guildford · Guisborough · Hampshire · Hawarden · Hawick · Hereford · Heysham · Holyhead · Horsmonden · Huddersfield · Hunstanton · Ipswich · Ivybridge · Keighley · Kingston-upon-Hull · Kirkby · Leamington Spa · Leeds · Leicester · Leominster · Liskeard · Liverpool · London · London Borough of Barking & Dagenham · London Borough of Barnet · London Borough of Bexley · London Borough of Brent · London Borough of Bromley · London Borough of Camden · London Borough of Croydon · London Borough of Ealing · London Borough of Enfield · London Borough of Greenwich · London Borough of Hackney · London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham · London Borough of Haringey · London Borough of Harrow · London Borough of Havering · London Borough of Hillingdon · London Borough of Hounslow · London Borough of Islington · London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea · London Borough of Kingston · London Borough of Lambeth · London Borough of Lewisham · London Borough of Merton · London Borough of Newham · London Borough of Redbridge · London Borough of Richmond · London Borough of Southwark · London Borough of Sutton · London Borough of Tower Hamlets · London Borough of Wandsworth · London Borough of Westminster · Luton · Manchester · Marlborough · Middlesbrough · Milton Keynes · Newcastle-upon-Tyne (short A) · Newcastle-upon-Tyne (long A) · Northampton · Norwich · Nottingham · Oxford · Peterborough · Plymouth · Poole · Portsmouth · Preston · Reading · River Cherwell · Rotherham · Sheffield · Shipbourne · Slough · Somerset · Southampton · Southend-on-Sea · St Helens · Stockport · Stoke-on-Trent · Sunderland · Sutton Coldfield · Swindon · Telford · Trottiscliffe · Urmston · Vale of Belvoir · Walsall · Watford · West Bromwich · Wolverhampton · Wrotham · York

And I took a request for a couple of surnames... Conley · Faulkner

And some full names to go on the resepective articles.... Maria Friderike Radner · Alek Skarlatos · Githa Spring Hampson · Spencer Stone