Dear Frank, Peter & others,

The idea to set this up wiki-style were the contribution can come from
basically anyone, sounds like a good idea!

This could then become a repository where other central websites like
AccessToInsight.com or Tipitaka.org or SuttaCentral can then link to or just
grab the audio files and use them on their own sites...John just linked his
ATI texts to the corresponding Pali text. He might also be interested in a
sound version, I guess.

much metta,

Lennart

Ref: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/15030
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/15030>

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks to all for the helpful comments on the thread.
> As part of my own pali learning process, I've been listening to the mp3
> pali chants of the abhayagiri monks, simultaneously reading the
> english+pali text, and clumsily reciting the pali along with the monks.
> This total immersion I believe facilities the learning process
> (simultaneously listening, reading, saying pali). One drawback as
> Lennart pointed out is if I ever become proficient at speaking pali and
> attempt to converse with another, they might wonder why I have a sing
> song accent.
>
> Making mp3's and putting it in the web is ridiculously easy. In less
> than 20 minutes last night, I downloaded audacity (open source free mp3
> recording software for pc), used a 5$ cheap microphone (same one I use
> for skype or googletalk), recorded myself reciting verse 1 of the
> dhammapada on the laptop, created a googlesite, uploaded the mp3, then
> using a smartphone pointed the web address to the googlesite I just
> created, downloaded the mp3 I just created and listened to it on my
> smartphone over the internet.
>
> For my own personal use, besides pali recitations, I'd also like the
> major suttas to have multilingual verisons such as english, mandarin,
> etc. Think of it this way. There's about 1.5Billion chinese in the
> world, there's tens of millions of smartphones that download mp3's off
> the web in the USA, if not already there will soon be hundreds of
> millions of mandarin chinese smartphone users. You think a wiki of mp3
> mandarin pali suttas would be useful? Basically, if you're not sure
> what I'm talking about, just visualize a multi-lingual version of this
> excellent site: http://www.suttareadings.net/index.html
>
> I created a googlegroups just now, audio_tipitaka@...<audio_tipitaka%40googlegroups.com>
> .
> The googlesite mp3 file respository:
> https://sites.google.com/site/audiotipitaka/file-cabinet
>
> I set up permissions so any member of audio_tipitaka@...<audio_tipitaka%40googlegroups.com>
> has "collaborator" status, to upload, delete, move mp3 files in the
> file-cabinet.
>
> Each gmail account is entitled to a free googlesite with 10Gig max
> capacity. Max file size is 12Meg, which should be plenty for dhammatalk
> mp3's.
>
> Using Majjhima Nikaya as an example, if I were to recite and record
> mp3's (in english) one sutta per week, in 3 years I'd have a complete
> audio version of [MN].
> If there were 152 volunteers, we could make an audio english version of
> [MN] in one day.
>
> For pali recitations, I'm thinking 5 or 10 minute excerpts from suttas
> would be excellent. Every iphone I believe has an mp3 recorder, so if
> you have access to 5-10 minutes of time with a sri lankan or other
> fluent pali speaker, we could put together quite an excellent wiki of
> pali audio mp3's.
>
> To help on this project, you can subscribe to the googlegroups at this
> address:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/audio_tipitaka/boxsubscribe
> google will send a confirmation to your email that you need to respond to
> (It should be pretty instantaneous). If you don't get the email from google
> right away, check your spam folder.
> Type something short in the confirmation to let me know that you're not a
> spammer and I'll approve the application.
>
> -Frank
>
>
>


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