Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-27 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I would strongly support to not lend support to the believe that everything
under the sun is copyrightable. We should, in my opinion, take the position
that trivial things like these are not copyrightable and should put a CC0
on it. We should not set an example and establish a practice that single
words can be copyrightable. At all. I think, by defaulting to that
assumption, we support the idea that these things can be legally protected
under copyright law, and by this we do a strong diservice to our actual
mission.

Sorry for the rant and for the not-completely-on-topicness.

Cheers,
Denny


2013/3/13 Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org

 On 03/13/2013 03:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
  Why CC0 (public domain)?  Your example
  (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY,
  which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all
  Wikimedia projects do for text).  I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would be a
  better default.
 
  I am not sure about copyrightability of a pronunciation of a single word.

 Neither am I, but if it's licensed under one of those and a court finds
 it's not copyrightable, so be it.  It still seems reasonable to use an
 attribution license.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-27 Thread Quim Gil

That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it

means

we could actually see some results.


Feedback and help about this feature is welcome at

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31221

(we might create a bug report specific to it, but this is the location 
we have now)


There is a potential GSOC student already interested:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31221#c10

(...)


If you think something would be a good project for a student, put it on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects


Exactly. Slowly slowly that page is becoming a good reference for 
projects wanted by the community. Bigger than an annoying bug but still 
something one single person with some dedication and help could complete 
in a reasonable period of time.


I have been linking those projects proposals with bugzilla reports, 
creating new ones if needed. You are encouraged to do the same, it is a 
lot more efficient for tracking and documenting the related discussions.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-27 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/27/2013 10:41 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
 That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it
 means
 we could actually see some results.
 
 Feedback and help about this feature is welcome at
 
 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31221
 
 (we might create a bug report specific to it, but this is the location
 we have now)

Yes, I've separated it into two:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31221 - Computer
text-to-speech as originally requested

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46610 - Easy way to
record and upload words.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-27 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/27/2013 01:12 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
 I'm not sure whether it'd be helpful for this project, but
 https://github.com/akrennmair/speech-to-server looks interesting. Somebody
 ported lame (the mp3 encoder) to JavaScript. The demo I linked to records
 in the browser and streams it to a server over websocket.

Unfortunately, I don't think that's workable, due to patent issues.

It might be feasible to do the same with a free format, though I do
wonder about the performance of a JS codec.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'm not sure whether it'd be helpful for this project, but
https://github.com/akrennmair/speech-to-server looks interesting. Somebody
ported lame (the mp3 encoder) to JavaScript. The demo I linked to records
in the browser and streams it to a server over websocket.

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 On 03/13/2013 12:15 AM, Antoine Musso wrote:
  Le 13/03/13 04:07, K. Peachey wrote:
  That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it
 means
  we could actually see some results, And if it was too small, The student
  could probably do a couple of smaller projects (it being one) then
 focus on
  one after the other.
 
  The smaller big project: get its code deployed on the cluster and
  enabled for all wikis!

 Quick reminder:

 If you think something would be a good project for a student, put it on
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects .
 I suggest we scope these proposals at about 6 weeks of coding work to
 ensure we dedicate enough time (out of the 3-month GSoC period) to
 bugfixing and code review.  Past proposals often allotted either no time
 or about 2 weeks for merging with trunk, pre-deploy code review, and
 integration.  That's not enough.

 Basically, if you think a project might take about 2 weeks for you to
 code, go ahead and put it on that list.  Students run into lots of
 problems, and your 2-week project is someone else's whole summer.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/13/2013 12:15 AM, Antoine Musso wrote:
 Le 13/03/13 04:07, K. Peachey wrote:
 That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it means
 we could actually see some results, And if it was too small, The student
 could probably do a couple of smaller projects (it being one) then focus on
 one after the other.
 
 The smaller big project: get its code deployed on the cluster and
 enabled for all wikis!

Quick reminder:

If you think something would be a good project for a student, put it on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects .
I suggest we scope these proposals at about 6 weeks of coding work to
ensure we dedicate enough time (out of the 3-month GSoC period) to
bugfixing and code review.  Past proposals often allotted either no time
or about 2 weeks for merging with trunk, pre-deploy code review, and
integration.  That's not enough.

Basically, if you think a project might take about 2 weeks for you to
code, go ahead and put it on that list.  Students run into lots of
problems, and your 2-week project is someone else's whole summer.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson

On 03/13/2013 08:16 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
A very nice website that does this already is www.forvo.com but they 
claim by-nc-sa licence. But the way it works could be used as inspiration.


Forvo looks very nice, and if they can do the job,
I'm happy that we don't have to. We should try
to collaborate with them.

However, when I try it, it says Oops! The recorder
is having a fix. Please, try again later. Thanks..,
both yesterday and today.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/14/2013 05:49 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
 Forvo looks very nice, and if they can do the job,
 I'm happy that we don't have to. We should try
 to collaborate with them.

Unfortunately, their license (non-commercial) is not free as in freedom,
and not acceptable for Wikimedia projects.

It's possible they might be able to change that license for particular
recordings.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson

On 03/13/2013 08:16 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
A very nice website that does this already is www.forvo.com but they 
claim by-nc-sa licence.


Ah, now I see this detail: Yes, the -NC- clause
in their license makes them useless for us.
That's a pity.

Having been through the great license shift in
OpenStreetMap, I think we should use cc0 as
far as we can. It remains my suggestion that
any tool should demand cc0, but of course that
will be the choice of the tool developer.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski

On 13/03/13 02:01, Lars Aronsson wrote:

Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other
server, having a simple link syntax that specifies
the language code and the text, e.g.
http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=frtext=gouter


I was thinking about this already and yes, this is a great idea! :)

A very nice website that does this already is www.forvo.com but they 
claim by-nc-sa licence. But the way it works could be used as inspiration.


A possible additional feature would be for speakers to indicate their 
locality, age, accent etc. (so that words differently pronounced in 
different accents of the same language would be marked as such).


Another possible feature would be some sort of verification or someone 
might vandalize by cursing or similar (on Forvo this is done by voting).


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski

On 13/03/13 02:29, Brian Wolff wrote:

It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
actually do it.


I believe Flash should be Ok if made to work on gnash but am not sure if 
gnash supports everything needed.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski

On 13/03/13 02:48, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this
user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0.
At the first visit, this question is asked as a
click-through license.


Why CC0 (public domain)?  Your example
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY,
which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all
Wikimedia projects do for text).  I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would be a
better default.


I am not sure about copyrightability of a pronunciation of a single word.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/13/2013 03:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
 Why CC0 (public domain)?  Your example
 (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY,
 which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all
 Wikimedia projects do for text).  I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would be a
 better default.
 
 I am not sure about copyrightability of a pronunciation of a single word.

Neither am I, but if it's licensed under one of those and a court finds
it's not copyrightable, so be it.  It still seems reasonable to use an
attribution license.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Luke Welling WMF
It would be a good application for mobile too.

In browser would be reasonably easy with Flash, and can be done with
JavaScript in modern browsers but not yet in a consistent way.  There is a
W3 spec but using a library like
https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/sink.js/ would be easier than writing
per browser versions to take into account current real world variation.

A mobile app, or a few native apps for dominant platforms presumably expose
a cleaner interface to what is a core device on that hardware, rather than
an optional, variable peripheral on computers.

Luke


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Matthew Flaschen
mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 On 03/13/2013 03:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
  Why CC0 (public domain)?  Your example
  (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY,
  which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all
  Wikimedia projects do for text).  I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would be a
  better default.
 
  I am not sure about copyrightability of a pronunciation of a single word.

 Neither am I, but if it's licensed under one of those and a court finds
 it's not copyrightable, so be it.  It still seems reasonable to use an
 attribution license.

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[Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Lars Aronsson

In Wiktionary, it's very convenient that some words
have sound illustrations, e.g.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go%C3%BBter

These audio bites are simple 2-3 second OGG files, e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg

but they are limited in number. It would be very
easy to record more of them, but before you get
started it takes some time to learn the details,
and then you need to upload to Commons and specify
a license, and provide a description, ... It's not
very likely that the person who does all that is
also a good voice in each desired language.

Here's a better plan:

Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other
server, having a simple link syntax that specifies
the language code and the text, e.g.
http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=frtext=gouter

The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this
user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0.
At the first visit, this question is asked as a
click-through license.

The user is now prompted with the text (from the URL)
and recording starts when pressing a button. The
user says the word, and presses the button again.
The tool saves the OGG sound, uploads it to Commons
with the filename fr-gouter-XYZ789.ogg and
the cc0 declaration and all metadata, placing it
in a category of recorded but unverified words.

Another user can record the same word, and it will
be given another random letter-digit code.

As a separate part of the tool, other volunteers are
asked to verify or rate (1 to 5 stars) the recordings
available in a given language. The rating is stored
as categories on commons.

Now, a separate procedure (manual or a bot job) can
pick words that need new or improved recordings,
and list them (with links to the tool) on a normal
wiki page.

I know HTML supports uploading of a file, but I don't
know how to solve the recording of sound directly to
a web service. Perhaps this could be a Skype application?
I have no idea. Please just be creative. It should be
solvable, because this is 2013 and not 2003.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 3/12/13, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
 In Wiktionary, it's very convenient that some words
 have sound illustrations, e.g.
 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go%C3%BBter

 These audio bites are simple 2-3 second OGG files, e.g.
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg

 but they are limited in number. It would be very
 easy to record more of them, but before you get
 started it takes some time to learn the details,
 and then you need to upload to Commons and specify
 a license, and provide a description, ... It's not
 very likely that the person who does all that is
 also a good voice in each desired language.

 Here's a better plan:

 Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other
 server, having a simple link syntax that specifies
 the language code and the text, e.g.
 http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=frtext=gouter

 The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this
 user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0.
 At the first visit, this question is asked as a
 click-through license.

 The user is now prompted with the text (from the URL)
 and recording starts when pressing a button. The
 user says the word, and presses the button again.
 The tool saves the OGG sound, uploads it to Commons
 with the filename fr-gouter-XYZ789.ogg and
 the cc0 declaration and all metadata, placing it
 in a category of recorded but unverified words.

 Another user can record the same word, and it will
 be given another random letter-digit code.

 As a separate part of the tool, other volunteers are
 asked to verify or rate (1 to 5 stars) the recordings
 available in a given language. The rating is stored
 as categories on commons.

 Now, a separate procedure (manual or a bot job) can
 pick words that need new or improved recordings,
 and list them (with links to the tool) on a normal
 wiki page.

 I know HTML supports uploading of a file, but I don't
 know how to solve the recording of sound directly to
 a web service. Perhaps this could be a Skype application?
 I have no idea. Please just be creative. It should be
 solvable, because this is 2013 and not 2003.


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It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
actually do it.

With modern web browsers, you can do it with html5/webRTC [1].

Someone could probably make an extension that integrates with
MediaWiki, so all user has to do is go to special:recordAudio and they
could record/upload from there. Perhaps that would make a good gsoc
project (Not sure if the scope is big enough, but could probably add
stuff like making a slick ui to make it big enough).

[1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
 considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
 actually do it.


For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java
applet. :P

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/12/2013 09:01 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
 Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other
 server, having a simple link syntax that specifies
 the language code and the text, e.g.
 http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=frtext=gouter

Good idea, though I agree with Brian a special page would be preferable.

 The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this
 user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0.
 At the first visit, this question is asked as a
 click-through license.

Why CC0 (public domain)?  Your example
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY,
which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all
Wikimedia projects do for text).  I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would be a
better default.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
 considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
 actually do it.


 For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java
 applet. :P

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Why? There's nothing inherently insecure about java applets. We
already use them to play ogg files on lame browsers that don't support
html5.

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2013-03-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mar 12, 2013 10:08 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
  considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
  actually do it.
 
 
  For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java
  applet. :P
 
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 Why? There's nothing inherently insecure about java applets. We
 already use them to play ogg files on lame browsers that don't support
 html5.

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Can you say that for sure? With the number of exploits in Java over the
past few months, everybody I know has already disabled their browser plugin.

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2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mar 12, 2013 10:08 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 3/12/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually
  considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to
  actually do it.
 
 
  For security purposes, I'm really hoping we don't plan on using a Java
  applet. :P
 
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 Why? There's nothing inherently insecure about java applets. We
 already use them to play ogg files on lame browsers that don't support
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Those types of people will probably have an html5 capable web browser :P

Let me rephrase my previous statement as, using java as a fallback
doesn't introduce any new issues that wouldn't be already there if we
didn't use java as a fallback. (Since we'd only fallback to java if
the user already had it installed). Furthermore, I imagine (or hope at
least) that oracle fixes the security vulnerabilities of their plugin
as they are discovered.

-bawolff

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Someone could probably make an extension that integrates with
 MediaWiki, so all user has to do is go to special:recordAudio and they
 could record/upload from there. Perhaps that would make a good gsoc
 project (Not sure if the scope is big enough, but could probably add
 stuff like making a slick ui to make it big enough).


That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it means
we could actually see some results, And if it was too small, The student
could probably do a couple of smaller projects (it being one) then focus on
one after the other.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 13/03/13 04:07, K. Peachey wrote:
 That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it means
 we could actually see some results, And if it was too small, The student
 could probably do a couple of smaller projects (it being one) then focus on
 one after the other.

The smaller big project: get its code deployed on the cluster and
enabled for all wikis!

-- 
Antoine hashar Musso


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