WikiProject Language samples/he

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The Wikipedia exists in many languages, in which we have articles about languages. We already have a lot of high quality wikipedia-articles about languages in which you can find information about the number of speakers, the vocabulary, stem and grammar of the language. But often one very natural question about a language is still left unanswered: "How does this language sound?".

This project seeks to change this. The goal of this project is to add a small sample of text spoken by a native speaker to all the articles about languages. The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an appropriate choice for this, since it is translated in "all" languages of the world, public domain and of the right length to be included to a Wikipedia article.

This is an example of how this could look and sound for the Japanese language:

すべての人間(にんげん)は、生(う)まれながらにして自由(じゆう)であり、かつ、尊厳(そんげん)と権利(けんり)とについて平等(びょうどう)である。人間(にんげん)は、理性(りせい)と良心(りょうしん)とを授(さず)けられており、互(たが)いに同胞(どうほう)の精神(せいしん)をもって行動(こうどう)しなければならない。

subete no ningen wa, umarenagara ni shite jiyū de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byōdō de aru. ningen wa, risei to ryōshin to o sazukerarete ori, tagai ni dōhō no seishin o motte kōdō shinakereba naranai.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

היסטוריית פרוייקט

The project benefited of a Librivox-project, which also had the goal of creating recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 50 languages. MichaelSchoenitzer imported those to commons, edited the files (see below) and extracted the first article. Through a project in the German Wikipedia they were included in the articles there.

Now it's time to make this into a international community-project – Wikipedians all around the globe can record the first article (or even the whole document) in their mother tongue, and the Wikipedia communities can add them to their language articles.

How-to create a recording

You want to read the first article of the UDHR in your mother tongue? Or you could convince some other person to do so? Awesome.

First: Get a microphone. Cheap Microphones have of course a lower sound quality, but if you follow the descriptions below even a cheap microphone will give reasonable results. If you live in a country with a local chapter you can ask there whether they can help you getting a microphone, for example in Germany you can borrow a microphone at Wikimedia Deutschland.

You can get the translation of the UDHR in your language at OHCHR.org. Find the first article and copy it to an editor or text program and format it in a way you can most comfortably read it. Before starting the recording read it two or three times loud and drink some water. If you misread a word simply read the word or group of words again and later cut out the wrong version.

Very important: when doing the recording make sure you also record at least 5 seconds of silence at the beginning or end of the recording – this is needed for editing. If you never did a recording, we recommend to use the free software Audacity. If you have a passive microphone (without power supply): activate the microphone boost and put the volume control to maximum. For an active microphone make sure the audio is not that high, that you reach the maximum gain when recording. After the recording, mark the part with silence you recoded and click on Effect -> Noise Reduction and click the Get Noise Profile button. After that select the whole recording (Edit > Select > All or the hotkey CTRL + A) and go again at Effect -> Noise Reduction and click the OK button. After that you can remove the silence and if there were any the misread sections by simply selecting them and pressing ⌦ Del. After that use from the Effect-Menu the filters Compressor, Leveller and Normalizer in this order. The default settings should be fine. When you are done, go on File -> Export audio, choose Ogg Vorbis as format and save the file.

Upload your recording to Wikimedia Commons, put it in the Category Audiorecordings of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and add it on the listing below.

More tips for high-quality audio samples can be found in: A short guide to the recording of high-quality audio samples for Wiktionary

Project Status

So far we have recordings of the following languages:

Language	Full recording	Recording of Artikel 1	German Wikipedia
Afrikaans	סיום	סיום link 1	no
Arabic	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Acehnese	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Balinese	סיום	סיום link 1	??
Basque	Not done	סיום link 1	סיום
Brazilian Portuguese	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Buginese	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Bulgarian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Catalan	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Chinese (Mandarin)	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1
Czech	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Danish	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Dutch	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1 link 2	סיום
English	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1
Esperanto	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Faroese	סיום	סיום link 1	no
Finnish	סיום	סיום link 1	no
French	סיום, 3 Versions	סיום link 1 link 2 link 3	סיום
German	סיום	סיום link 1	no
Modern Greek	סיום	סיום link 1
Hebrew	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	סיום
Hindi	סיום	סיום link 1	no
Hungarian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Indonesian	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1 link 2	no
Italian	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	סיום
Japanese	סיום	סיום link 1 link 2	סיום
Javanese	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Javanese (Semarang)	סיום	ToDo	no article
Kapampangan	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Korean	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Latin	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	no
Latvian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Luxembourgish	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Malay	סיום	סיום link 1 link 2
Minangkabauian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Nynorsk	סיום	סיום link 1	Todo
"plain" ???	סיום	ToDo	???
Okzitanian (Languedocien)	סיום	סיום link 1	no
Oriya	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Persian	Not done	סיום link 1
Polish	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	סיום
Portuguese	סיום, 2 versions	סיום link 1 link 2	סיום
Romanian	סיום very bad Quality	ToDo
Russian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Swedish	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	סיום
Slovak	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Serbian	Not done	סיום link 1	Todo
Sesotho / South Sotho	Not done	סיום link 1	סיום
Spanish	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1 link 2	סיום
Sundanese	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Tagalog	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Tamil	סיום, 2 Versions	סיום link 1	no
Turkisch	Not done	סיום link 1 (bad quality)	Todo
Ukrainian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Urdu	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Walloons	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
West Frisian	סיום	סיום link 1	סיום
Yiddish	סיום	סיום link 1	no