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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

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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