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okay, i have recorded the passage, which can be seem bellow, but i dont know how to convert it from wav into mp3 that i should be able to upload to tindeck. :confused:

Omnes homines, qui sese student praestare ceteris animalibus, summa ope niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona atque ventri oboedientia finxit. Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est: animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.

Quo mihi rectius videtur ingeni quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere et, quoniam vita ipsa, qua fruimur, brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere. Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

Sed diu magnum inter mortalis certamen fuit, vine corporis an virtute animi res militaris magis procederet. Nam et, prius quam incipias, consulto et, ubi consulueris, mature facto opus est. Ita utrumque per se indigens alterum alterius auxilio eget.

Igitur initio reges divorsi pars ingenium, alii corpus exercebant: etiam tum vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur; sua cuique satis placebant. Postea vero, quam in Asia Cyrus, in Graecia Lacedaemonii et Athenienses coepere urbis atque nationes subigere, lubidinem dominandi causam belli habere, maximam gloriam in maximo imperio putare, tum demum periculo atque negotiis compertum est in bello plurumum ingenium posse. Quod si regum atque imperatorum animi virtus in pace ita ut in bello valeret, aequabilius atque constantius sese res humanae haberent neque aliud alio ferri neque mutari ac misceri omnia cerneres. Nam imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est.

Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate lubido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus inmutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transferetur.

Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit.

Eorum ego vitam mortemque iuxta aestumo, quoniam de utraque siletur. Verum enim vero is demum mihi vivere atque frui anima videtur, qui aliquo negotio intentus praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit.

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Salve, Roberte!

Do you have Audacity? If not, click here. Open your .wav file and export it as mp3. If you need any plugins to make the conversion, you can find them there as well.

Vale!

P.S.: Where does your text come from? Is it something original?

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hi, i had no audacity, nor my new audacity works, because it cmplains that he cant recognize the encoding… :frowning:

ah the text is sallust’ de conjuratione catilinae :slight_smile:

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Well, it should recognize a simple .wav file. What did you use to record it? You can always record again using Audacity, but I don’t know how you’d feel about that, I mean, the text you are using is pretty long.

I hope we can hear your recording soon, what with all of this suspense building. :laughing:

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lol i fear now a big disapointment… :laughing:

im using a mp3 player to record, being it so, i cant actually record per audacity. this is too overly complicated :confused: unless of course there is another way to upload, that i should not need to convert at all :smiley:

do you think i should cut it? it seemed small when i saw it on perseus, 2 papragrph only :confused: but when i pasted here it grew up :confused:

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Ok, how about this one: http://www.zshare.net/ Though, I don’t know if you can really share the sound files as you can with Tindeck…

Edit: Oh… wait… never mind. I’ll keep looking :blush:

Edit: Here’s a directory for many free hosts: http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-file-hosting.php

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i figured it out… :stuck_out_tongue:

dont forget : use a headphone

also it take a bit for the download to be avaiable, so dont worry, it is normal



comments and mistakes?

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Macte! :smiley: Excellent recording, Roberte! And I didn’t need the use of headphones. :wink: Did you struggle at all reading the same passage over and over again? It sounds as if you read the whole thing in one go, with no editing. I especially like your long vowels, they sound like Italian. Just one tiny thing: I thought Portuguese and Spanish pronounced the r’s the same way ? Anyway, thanks for contributing. I hope others sum up the courage to upload their recordings as well.

Vale!

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yes i did struggle with it several times and i did it in one, because i would not be able to edit it later. now, the portuguese r if single like cara is like the single spanish, but the initial and consonantal vary grealty from dialect to dialect, it may be uvular fricative or even uvular trill, both voiced and unvoiced, it may be an glottal fricative like in mine, it may be a tiptongue trill (unvoiced) like in spanish, or even an retroflex :open_mouth:

i tried to use tongue trill in all occasions, mainly for accomodation than for anything else. :wink: