I think, we need to divide the collection of sounds Iespecially speeches) by language. For example, I need Russian speech and fx very much, but don't need english-speaking ambient.
How to do it now - I can't catch.
Some languages are used in
Some languages are used in many countries (e.g., English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German, Russian). Some countries use more than one language (e.g., China, India, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium).
A language is a language. A country is a country. If some sound contains speech in some language, the tag should list the language. If some sound is specific to some country, the tag should list the country. And if they overlap, tag them both.
Just MHO.
I think you are right bout
I think you are right bout saying that we should standarize the way we tag things- for example in the case of countries.
For now, I tag sounds that are country-specific with 'Greece', 'Russia', 'Japan' etc. Thats has become the standard for Soundsnap already.
About the language selector, I 'm not 100% sure that we need this at the moment at least. I think that it could get terribly complicated to use different languages.
This would only work if we made a translation of the whole website at some point in the future...
Hi tasos
No. It is not
Hi tasos
No. It is not precise. There is too may variation of howto mark "russian" fx. Such as "russia", "RUS", russian", "ru" etc.
It needs to be only one method to tag it. In aspecial "tag field", there must be a combo-box of drop-down list of language, I think.
Hi dance,
I definitely see
Hi dance,
I definitely see your point.
By making searches for 'russian' or 'russia', this should return the desired results, if the sounds have been tagged correctly.
Keep in mind that we are also thinking of translating the whole website into several different languages in the future, which should open it up a lot more to the non anglosaxon audience.
C u online,
Tasos
Hi djdance,
We already have
Hi djdance,
We already have samples containing several languages. Everyone is free to upload a sample with whatever language she/he chooses. Additionally, you can use the search options with key words such as "Russia" or "Russian", to get all relevant samples.
Hope this helped,
Stamatia.
Joined: 2007-08-01