User:Tonyle

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About me

 * Location: San José, California, USA
 * Birthdate: 1972-05-07

Spoken articles
I am a contributor to the Spoken Wikipedia project. I do my best to keep spoken articles interesting using my own conversational style. I've been able to produce very good results with just a few simple tools:


 * A $15 Plantronics free-standing PC microphone
 * Audacity 1.3.7 beta - especially useful for noise reduction and improving bass
 * Levelator 1.4.1 - normalizes audio for a consistent sound level throughout the recording

A few tricks:


 * I wrap the head of the microphone in a cotton ball to reduce popping (hard P's), essing (hard S's) and "tinniness".
 * To reduce echo, I record underneath a comforter draped over two chairs. Described by one user as an adult building forts. :D

If you like my spoken articles, please feel free to recognize my work by placing a Spoken Barnstar on my talk page.

Completed

 * 300 (film)
 * Archimedes
 * Durian
 * Greek mythology
 * Hurricane Dog (1950)
 * Interstate 15 in Arizona
 * Oort cloud
 * SS Ohioan (1914)

In progress
None at the moment

Fluent

 * American English (native)
 * Latin American Spanish (literary and moderate speaking proficiency)

Like to learn

 * Tagalog
 * Vietnamese
 * Italian
 * French

Hobbies

 * salsa dancing

Subjects

 * linguistics
 * astronomy
 * physics

In other languages

 * Español