I'm currently building a nice thingy with no name yet but which could be called "Bubulle's Automagic Babelbox" or something similar.:-)
The idea is getting a machine which constantly installs itself over and over, using the new Debian Installer, of course.
The install successively runs in each of the 41 languages d-i is translated in, up to a fully operational desktop system. Then, it opens a session, waits for a while, then reboots and installs itself in the next language.
This box will probably be presented on the Debian booth at the Solutions Linux expo in Paris (Feb. 2005). The ultimate goal is of course a useless world record and a nice demo on how Debian is hard to install (as we keep reading that).
At the end of the session opening, I planned to have the box playing a nice welcome message in the current language.
*Here* I need you.
I have already posted this mail to debian-women as I intend to have as much as possible female voices just to show that the Free Software Community is not made of only half of the world..:-)
But, it seems obvious that I will miss some languages and, anyway, this is more or less turning out into an interesting collection of Debian voices all around the world.
See http://www.perrier.eu.org/debian/voices for what I have already collected..
So, if you want to participate, please just record yourself saying "Hello and welcome to your new Debian system in <language>" where <language> is of course your own language name.
Example: "Bonjour et bienvenue sur votre nouveau système Debian en français"
Then just put the result somewhere to be picked up and send me the URL. Or send me the sound file attached to an e-mail if that is not a problem for you. Thus, everyone will be able to listen to your nice voice...
Don't hesitate to record yourself even if someone else already did it for your language. After all, we will later be able to collect all these voices and keep them somewhere appropriate or (why not?) make them a funny Debian package...:-)
Of course, those of you who speak a quite "rare" language are privileged and have more chance to be part of the game....:)
Please note that these files are likely to be used in a public event and just don't record yourself if you don't want your voice to be used that way.
Finally, I do not need ONLY female voices....so even bearded old-fashioned geeks are welcome....just go and pick up your mike.....
Please record WAV files if possible, but I'll be able to handle other sound format, I guess. Be aware that I'm not a sound processing guru though...:-)