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:

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