Comments on: Latin podcasting experiment

By: Jock Chamberlain

Jock Chamberlain — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:24:21 +0000

I laud your efforts and add my small contribution. Radio Tomate Latino is a podcast dedicated to searching for solutions to the issues which are separating the Americas. You are invited to listen, link and enjoy. We also use WordPress. Kindest regards, Jock (bio in “about us.”)

By: millner

millner — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:38:40 +0000

I’ve enjoyed listening to the colloquia feeds, which I have found accessible on the feedburner site you mention above.
After looking around for a poscast-based site for learning Latin, and not being able to find one, I decided to set one up myself. This can be found on the url I have given here. I am still perfecting it ( and my Latin) as I go along.

http://latinum.mypodcast.com/index.html

-E. Millner.

By: JP Devlin

JP Devlin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:28:42 +0000

Hello,
I’d love to be able to listen to your podcasts but can’t seem to be able to listen to them here on your website.

JP Devlin

By: Matteo

Matteo — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:55:49 +0000

Hic est ephemeris mea latine scripta:
http://www.latinblog.org/

:))

By: Klaus Graf

Klaus Graf — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:07:55 +0000

Feel free to use the delicious (now purchased by Yahoo) tag Latinitas I feel more idoneus than Latin.

By: Ross Scaife

Ross Scaife — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:09:00 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions, Jose. We’ll try them, now that we have some better equipment (listed in the post I made yesterday).

Ross

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:55:38 +0000

Very interesting, I think them very useful.

The quality of the sound is good and the pronunciation clear and intelligible, but the difference in loudness too great. I were you, I would normalize de files before converting them to mp3.

Also, in some files, the microphone exceeded the limits of recording and was clipped, and also noise resulted from the background. You can check the input level meter by clicking on the level monitor under the microphone tab of Audacity.

The stereo effect it is sometimes quite strong at it sounds to me almost mono-aural.

Recording with 22050 Hz would surely be enough. The bit rate of the mp3 files is too high. Likely you could get a good enough quality about 40-64 kb/sec. These measures will reduce the size of the files (at least by half).

I have got better results saving the sound as “wav 16bit PCM�? with audacity and afterwards compressing the wav file using Cdex (also from sourceforge, as Audacity) and setting the Lame mp3 motor to “voice quality�? (audacity use also Lame, but configuration is less flexible).

By the way, I never imagined neo-Latin colloquia with classical pronunciation.

Many thanks for the effort.

By: Klaus Graf

Klaus Graf — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:58:01 +0000

Thanks! May I add the following blogs:

http://commentariumiospehi.blogspot.com/

http://spaces.msn.com/members/magistraequitum/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart

http://spaces.msn.com/members/tadwelessar/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart

http://mephemeris.blogspot.com/

By: Iustinus

Iustinus — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:25:08 +0000

You can get lists of Latin weblogs at the following URLs:

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveJournal#Nexus_externi
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jdm314/117930.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jdm314/125146.html

While you’re at it, you may be interested in http://www.livejournal.com/users/jdm314/129930.html as well.

By: Ross Scaife

Ross Scaife — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:28:51 +0000

http://www.livejournal.com/users/beluosus/