Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice
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WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice is a WikiProject about making Wikipedia articles available in a new format: audio.
Goals
editWelcome to the WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice. The goals of the project are to enable people to listen to any Wikipedia article by providing high-quality audio files that sound natural and are indistinguishable from human-spoken audios and making these accessible. This involves identifying and fixing any issues with these audios to improve their quality. The goal is that the quality is not just to be as good as volunteer-read audios but better since these voices can be better suited for narration that is as listenable as audiobooks or podcasts. Basically the goal is to enable listening to Wikipedia articles become as widespread in society as listening to podcasts to which many millions listen on a daily basis.
If you would like to participate in this project, then you can optionally add your name to the list of participants. Keep in touch with project developments by adding this project to your watchlist and joining discussions on the talk page.
Activities
editThe current process is described at c:Help:Spoken Wikipedia using AI. It can take several minutes to generate an audio and as described on that page various things must be excluded or fixed for a good-quality result.
Things to do
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Examples
editDue to issues with the audio player like a missing skip x seconds back button, the best way to listen to these is to download these audio files and then listen to them using your preferred podcast player on your smartphone such as "Simple Audiobook Player". Other recommendations can be given on the talk page.
ParticipantseditSign up if you're interested. To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the Category:WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice participants page, and list your name there. |
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