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Okay, so I made sure that my Java was more up-to-date than the version number required by the page; I updated it further, anyway. 

And, the Java applet in the greyed-out window still did not work; in either Chromium or Firefox.

I record my voice OK, but when I press Play, it plays only a small segment of what I said, then it skips to near the end.  So I didn't upload it.

en el programa no aparece el idioma castellano y las frases se encuentran en ingles es posible podrian agregarlo por favor  o alguna idea de como contribuir para dar desarrollo al idioma castellano ya sea traducir las frases o desarrollar una verision para castellano

The work queue listed on this page has apparently not been processed in well over a year. The Metrics page has not been updated in 5 months. Am I wasting my time submitting recordings?

It would be more forgiving if you added a "restart" button for when the volunteer is uploading the recordings.   I had made a set of recordings, then press upload, but needed to refresh my internet connection.  The upload was stalled, so I tried to reload the web page, and the result was a previous page that I had used. That's a problem.  So to correct it I had to navigate back to your home page, then to the page to submit recordings, and the java applet ddin't see the old recordings anymore, and so I had to re-create them all, a real nusance.

It seems a bit strange that every time I log in I have to say that I'm a female, an adult and my accent is British.  After all, these details don't change very often .  Could they be automatically inserted?

Hi, I know some people in New Zealand who are interested in contributing, but bandwidth there is very expensive and they're uncertain how much is being used when they upload a submission. Is the audio compressed, losslessly or otherwise, before upload? What's a typical average size? It'd also be a big help if the "results" page would describe how much bandwidth was ultimately used and how much their user has used so far, so they can track their overall usage and the amount their contribution is costing them. This would also be helpful for other bandwidth-starved nations. Thanks!

John asks:

 Hello.

 Thanks for all the work you guys put into creating an open source
 Acoustic Model.

 I would like to contribute and in order to do that properly I would
 like to know more about what you need.

 If I record a reading should I read it with tone and inflection as if
 I am reading it for someones entertainment? Or should I just be
 pronouncing each word and leave it at that?

 Also, can I submit anything that is public domain and I have a
 transcript of or should it be something from the LibriVox project and
 only that project?

 Thanks.

Twice the command below appeared with the bottom row of pixels omitted so I can't be sure that the spaces are not dots and vice versa: -

java security AccessControlException:access denied (javax.sound.sampled.AudioPermission record)

My two attempts to play back resulted in silence.

I have just registered and you can find my e-mail under the user name Catbells.  Please excuse my not publicising it to the world.

For me Firefox was working perfectly. The upload/ record / play commands worked perfectly; i don't know what you were complaining about guys...

simply could you make a link so that we upload a wav file, as simply as possible , because firefox is never working...

we know how to use arecord and hw:xx well

I second the idea to save user/gender/age/dialect/mic settings for multiple recording sessions, via a cookie or otherwise.  I am even logged in to my account, perhaps the information could be associated with my account and then passed into the applet.

Also FYI anyone, in 64-bit archlinux I had to switch from the sun "jre" package to "openjdk6" in order to get recording to work (from either laptop mic or external usb mic; under both chrome and firefox; and I observed the same issue and fix on other sound recording java applets).

Also, I'm not sure, but maybe more of this site should be in wiki form.  Thanks everyone for this project.

After I record a prompt, it plays back at a very high rate of speed. I'm on a MacBook Pro with a Plantronics Bluetooth headset. I can't imagine these recordings will be of any use to you, but if you have any insight into why it's happening, maybe I can produce something you can use. Sorry not to have been able to help out. It's a most worthy project.

BG

see this post: Voxforge java speech applet and Firefox 3.6

Could you please give a link to the file listing the prompts? And to the upload function? I can't see anything of the kind.

I have set pulse audio to record from my USB mic (Sennheiser), and Sound Recorder in Ubuntu can record and play back my speech. However, the applet above does not seem to record the prompts I read in. Also, the Java applet during playback doesn't have any spikes.

I'd like to support the project. Maybe I can upload a recording of these prompts?

I get an error in the java console on uploading:

Uploading to http://read.voxforge1.org/r0_1_6/javaUploadServer.php
*** IOException: UploadManager ***
Exception in thread "Thread-92" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at net.sf.postlet.UploadManager.run(UploadManager.java:74)

Could you possibly make the user profile (i.e. gender,dialect, language) a forced option?

I'm trying to automatically compile a database of profiles, but not all user's have given a language, making it very awkward. 

If the details had to be entered for all fields, it would really help. I'm happy to share my databaseonce compiled, see more details at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/my_fileexchange

Hi,

I wonder if you might consider adding a status bar (or similar) to indicate the uploading process. The applet currently just says "Uploading..." and I'm left wondering if it is working, or if it has failed in some way. It would also give me an idea of how long I need to wait...

Thanks.

You might seriously want to consider having the java applet set some sort of cookie or something to retrieve the username and other settings to ease multiple submissions from the same donor.

I can't record using this app. I can confirm the firefox fix of closing tabs which allows me to record/playback, but nothing gets recorded and, consequently, nothing is played back!

You would probably get many more submissions if you just make it easy. Something like:

"Click here to upload audio file". Make sure it's in WAV format!

You don't really need people to log in either. Just log their IP address and show them that you're logging it by making it a read-only field as part of their submission.

do you want "us" to speak any of the punctuation or to ignore all of it? do you want "us" do use any inflextion in our voices for questions?

I'm used to reading punctuation for voice dictation out loud - do you want me to read them when submitting samples here?