Gallery of personal greetings from around the world

[yoopers]

Here is the next version of Unicyclist.com reality galleries.

I thought it would be fun to hear greetings from unicyclists to unicyclists from around the world. So I set up a gallery at http://gallery.unicyclist.com/greetings to which you can upload your personal greeting to the rest of us. Be sure to include your forum name so we know who you are and your location either in the recording or in the caption beneath.

Once you upload a greeting, let us know here in the thread so we can go listen to the dulcet tones of your voice.

Have fun.
Bruce

[yoopers]

Was thinking about this last night so I thought I'd bump it to see if I could generate any interest.

It's a simple concept, record a greeting then upload it to the gallery. We'd love to hear what your voice, dialect and accent sound like.

http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=33985

[swarbrim]

'Hey this is Mike Swarbrick, I post as Swarbrim on the forums. Errr, this is what I sound like, I live in Devon, which is in England. Err, yea, sounds good.'

Great idea.

Mike

[juggle508]

Why can't I listen to them. It says my realplayer cant find the right upgrades.

KH.

[yoopers]

This came up in the Compliment thread so I thought I'd bump it again.

In looking at the greetings uploaded to the gallery, it's interesting that Kristine is the only female to post but for some reason far and away has the most views.

[iridemymuni]

how do i upload mine to the gallery?

[ice_cold_uni6]

on the left it says "add item" just as if adding to your own gallery, its public.

[GILD]

Mmm, I was getting all ready to record a new greeting when I realised it was the same gallery.
I'd like to see a couple more in there.
Would love to hear Mikefule read one of his stories.

[iridemymuni]

i tried doig that a while ago, but didnt work (found out it was because it screws up with opera), i tried on ie and it worked.

now i've got a greeting, i sound like a complete gumby :p

GILD sounds so so cool

[tomtrevor]

owen you do sound gumby. and GILD does sound really cool. ill put one on later tonight when i get time.

[yoopers]

Check this (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=222641) out. Dave, you have a great talent! Very well done.

[JJtheunicycle]

i have no idea what iridemymuni said

[andycookuk]

Yay!

http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223290

[yoopers]

I've always wondered what different types of British dialects there were. In the U.S., there are definite accents that are characteristic of different parts of the country. I have to think that it's the same in the U.K., but for now, most British accents sound the same to me. I just haven't been exposed to the speech enough to tell the difference. Also, I can imitate the different accents from around the U.S. but the British accent is very difficult for me and I'm not sure why. Probably for much the same reason, I haven't heard it enough.

[dudewithasock]

I like listening to those, pretty cool hearing some voices behind the screen names.

I'll probably add mine some time tomorrow and show that Boo Radley's voice is not the typical voice of Texas. >.>

[JJtheunicycle]

do i have an accent of any kind? mines on the bottom

[tomtrevor]

you do have an accent. its kinda wierd, not as weird as some of the others though.

[GILD]

I'd like to suggest a fixed script for everyone to incorporate in their recordings.
That will help alleviate the problem of 'not knowing what to say' and also make it more interesting to hear the different pronunciation of the same words by people from different countries.

The University of Otago did a similar stu (http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Sounds/Sounds.html)dy and used this script:

"Dear Mum and Dad: Hi! How are you? Well, here I am in the big city. Although the weather is nice at the moment, the forecast is for hail, but that should soon clear. I bought a new coat yesterday because they say it gets really cold. I have to stay at Aunty Deb's house for now, but I'm hoping to get a flat soon. The trip up was great, even though it took ten hours. Well, I must go. You know how rarely I write, but I will try to do better this year. Love Clare / Clark

Thoughts?

I've done a version her (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223317)e.

[iridemymuni]

"Hey, my name's (insert name here), and i go about the forums as (insert username here). i live in (whereever you live)."

well thats a start, anyone care to add more?

[tomtrevor]

sort of like "Hey, my name's tom trevor, and i go about the forums as tom trevor. i live in australia."

doesnt really work well for me.

[GILD]

Have that as a start and then do the script in my post above?

[iridemymuni]

yup, that should give us some idea on accents and pronunciation on funny words.

[yoopers]

The script is a good idea but I also would appreciate a greeting as it makes it a little more personal. Since we already have a greeting posted outdated as it may be, I'll see if I can record and upload the script sometime.

[picado]

nice idea..

i will record my.

but need to be in english ?

[juggle508]

I put mine in there. Yoopers, can you change the one called VOICE to KELLY HICKMAN. I cant figure out hwo to rename it lol. Hopefully it works?

KH.

[yoopers]

nice idea..

i will record my.

but need to be in english ?

I think we would prefer it in English as it would be difficult to sense an accent in a recording spoken in an other-than-English native language.

[yoopers]

I put mine in there. Yoopers, can you change the one called VOICE to KELLY HICKMAN. I cant figure out hwo to rename it lol. Hopefully it works?

KH.
Done. :)

[forrestunifreak]

I don't have a microphone. Is there anyway I could use a vidoe camera... and convert the sound?

I'm guessing not...

[forrestunifreak]

i have no idea what iridemymuni said


I will translate:

"Hi, my name is Alam Dams, I go about the forums as Iridemymuni, I live in Australia about 5 minutes away from Ambadicada, eh he's got a very seridiculous strailan accent, and I say godayllo. Saya, see ya."

That is what he said.

[yoopers]

I don't have a microphone. Is there anyway I could use a vidoe camera... and convert the sound?

I'm guessing not...
I believe you would need a video capture card in your computer.

[forrestunifreak]

I believe you would need a video capture card in your computer.

Do I have one of those?




(what are they?)

[GILD]

Worse case scenario you could probably just upload a short video of you looking into the camera and talking.
That should work.

[iridemymuni]

I will translate:

"Hi, my name is Alam Dams, I go about the forums as Iridemymuni, I live in Australia about 5 minutes away from Ambadicada, eh he's got a very seridiculous strailan accent, and I say godayllo. Saya, see ya."

That is what he said.

"hi, my name's owen downes, i go about the forums as iridemymuni, i live in australia about 5 minutes away from andrew carter, yeah he's got a fairly stereotypical australian accent, and we say g'day a lot, so yeah, see ya"

you were fairly close, you did a lot better than amanda

[gkmac]

I don't have a microphone.You can use a pair of headphones as a microphone. Just plug them into the mike socket and speak into the headphone cups.

It has worked for me more than once.

[JJtheunicycle]

"hi, my name's owen downes, i go about the forums as iridemymuni, i live in australia about 5 minutes away from andrew carter, yeah he's got a fairly stereotypical australian accent, and we say g'day a lot, so yeah, see ya"

you were fairly close, you did a lot better than amanda
hahah ambadicata sumhow translates to andrew carter hmmmmmm thats odd lol:D

[GILD]

The Austalian accent would pronounce something like Andrew Carter as "Aandr' Kaadah".
Phonotically, ambidacata is actually a pretty accurate rendering.

[kristine]

I just have to say... Gild is the man. I saw someone else say that he should be an announcer on the discovery channel or something, well... I think he should just take over the discovery channel. The wildabeast one... was awesome. Gild is the man.

[GILD]

I'm printing out that post and sticking it up on my fridge.

[kristine]

I'm printing out that post and sticking it up on my fridge.
you may wanna run spell check then first. lol. Im known to spell half of what I say wrong.

[carsonpalooza]

ok I added mine
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223394

[forrestunifreak]

Well I found an old cell phone headset thing, that had a mic.

I kinda rushed because I didn't think it would work, it stinks, I might delete it and do it better some other time if I can:http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223431

[GILD]

It's not that serious, but can we keep files to MP3 as far as possible?

[yoopers]

Wildebeest revisited (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223456).

[GILD]

Wildebeest revisited (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=223456).
Oh that is wicked!

[iridemymuni]

you guys seriously have the best voices ever!

[GILD]

I want to do Snooker commentary with Bruce.

[yoopers]

I want to do Snooker commentary with Bruce.
What is a Snooker commentary? I'm up for it! Sounds like fun. Want me to stop by tonight?

[GILD]

Snooke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker)r.

Commentary is traditionally pretty dry and excruci (http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/pool/normal_videos/index.html)atingly boring, not.
Unless you're Steve Davis and you say things like:"Well, he's snookered behind the green ball. For all our viewers watching on Black-and-White televisions, the green ball is the one directly next to the yellow ball."

Honest.

[yoopers]

By the way, many many thanks to Ben for his computer expertise and resources for helping me put the dialog clip together. He sure is handy to have around. We probably don't have the nice recording equipment that Dave has but we did our best.

[monkeyman]

I'm going home tomorrow and then I'll finally be ble to hear all these

[GILD]

We probably don't have the nice recording equipment that Dave has but we did our best.
Yeah, you desperately need to use a vocal compressor on the vocal track before adding the FX. You also needed to cut an EQ groove out of the backround sounds so you'd have a natural frequency range for the voice to sit in, as opposed to on, the sounds.
An intelligent maximiser would've done wonders for the integrity of the mixdown and any half-decent final mastering processor would've cleared up a lot of the muffling of the final product and a parametric equaliser would've reduced some of the digital icing you have on the higher frequencies.*

It's a disgrace.
Do better next time.

Better yet, send me the original tracks and I'll show you how it's supposed to be done.





*
PS. I don't actually know what most of that means but my boss seems to like it if I throw stuff like that around in conversation.

[yoopers]

The little stick mic Gateway provides is not very good, so we routed my 100W acoustic amp into Ben's computer and used my good quality mic into the amp. Ben's got a wave editing program that did a pretty good job and gave us lots of options. I'll pass your mixing suggestions on to Ben to see what he thinks. I'll tell him you said that he should understand all the jargon. :)

Ben has the interest in such things, a good musical ear, and the ability. I think he could have a good career in audio engineering someday.

[GILD]

Link him to this sit (http://www.rane.com/par-p.html)e.
It's a pretty handy dictionary of audio-terms.
Also some kewl stuff to have a look at her (http://www.earlevel.com/Digital%20Audio/index.html)e.

And for a bunch of free VST-plug ins, go he (http://www.voxengo.com/downloads/?highlight=soniformer#soniformer)re.

If he's interested, two things.
Make sure he keeps his hearing.
-No loud music thru bad headphones.
And play, play, play.
Make stuff like that clip you just made all the time.

[yoopers]

We've only got one page of greetings folks. Any other takers? Give us all a sample of your sweet vocal tones and distinguished accent.

The Gallery of Greetings from Around the World (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=33985)

[GILD]

I think it's time we create a 'hit-list' of people we want to hear in this gallery.
Then we can all go out and harrass them in other threads untill they record their greetings and tick them off the list.

I'll start the list, please add to it the people you'd like to hear, and keep copying and pasting the list as we start crossing people off.

John Childs.
Harper.
John Foss.
Gilby.
Underdog.
Naomi.
KlaasBill.
Jagur.
TomBlackwood.
UniBrier.
DaveStockton.

[jake_amos]

i just posted mine i did the script thing dunno why! i heard owen's he says it like a true blue aussie i could understand it perfectly

[iridemymuni]

John Childs.
Harper.
John Foss.
Gilby.
Underdog.
Naomi.
KlaasBill.
Jagur.
TomBlackwood.
UniBrier.
DaveStockton.
Kris Holm.

finally somebody who understands my accent !!

[jake_amos]

John Childs.
Harper.
John Foss.
Gilby.
Underdog.
Naomi.
KlaasBill.
Jagur.
TomBlackwood.
UniBrier.
DaveStockton.
Kris Holm.
james_potter.
spencer_hochberg.

maybe some one who under stands mine

[iridemymuni]

hahaha cool you've got an australian accent!!

[tomtrevor]

i rekon its because his from australia, what do you rekon. it would be weird if he wasnt

[iridemymuni]

ya reckon? no shit. but our accents dont even sound remotly australian to me yet his does?

[yoopers]

I think it's time we create a 'hit-list' of people we want to hear in this gallery.
I like this idea. Maybe we could employ the services of DarkTom and checkernuts to pay these folks a visit and extract a greeting from them. I wonder what they get for their services?

[yoopers]

i just posted mine i did the script thing dunno why! i heard owen's he says it like a true blue aussie i could understand it perfectly
Nice job Jake. I loved it. Way to have some fun with it!

[GILD]

That reminds me.
Must add DarkTom to the list.

John Childs.
Harper.
John Foss.
Gilby.
Underdog.
Naomi.
KlaasBill.
Jagur.
TomBlackwood.
UniBrier.
DaveStockton.
Kris Holm.
james_potter.
spencer_hochberg.
DarkTom.

[GILD]

The script Jake mentions is this one.

"Dear Mum and Dad: Hi! How are you? Well, here I am in the big city. Although the weather is nice at the moment, the forecast is for hail, but that should soon clear. I bought a new coat yesterday because they say it gets really cold. I have to stay at Aunty Deb's house for now, but I'm hoping to get a flat soon. The trip up was great, even though it took ten hours. Well, I must go. You know how rarely I write, but I will try to do better this year. Love Clare / Clark

[sobriquet]

I want to add mine, cause these people could tell what state I was from when they heard me talk so I have to try it.
But I'm too lazy.

[yoopers]

I want to add mine, cause these people could tell what state I was from when they heard me talk so I have to try it.
But I'm too lazy.
Sounds like a fun guessing game in the works. C'mon, ya gotta do it now.

Edit: Can I guess now? For Bare Feet Originals is based out of Indiana...but they don't have much of an accent so maybe that wouldn't be a good guess.

[sobriquet]

Sounds like a fun guessing game in the works. C'mon, ya gotta do it now.

Edit: Can I guess now? For Bare Feet Originals is based out of Indiana...but they don't have much of an accent so maybe that wouldn't be a good guess.

I'm not from Indiana, I will try to get it up today.
But what kind of file does it need to be?

[yoopers]

But what kind of file does it need to be?
mp3 or .wav would work very well.

[sobriquet]

Great Idea Bruce!!

[GILD]

mp3 makes it easier for people without pipeline connections to download it as well.

[sobriquet]

I don't know what to say, some body should write a script for this.

[yoopers]

I don't know what to say, some body should write a script for this.
Check this (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=549864&postcount=18) out.

[GILD]

Maybe just a final version.

"Hi, I'm ...........(your name), my username on the forum is ...........(your username)
I live in ...........(hemisphere, country, state, county, town - whatever level of preciseness you feel comfortable with).

Dear Mum and Dad: Hi! How are you? Well, here I am in the big city. Although the weather is nice at the moment, the forecast is for hail, but that should soon clear. I bought a new coat yesterday because they say it gets really cold. I have to stay at Aunty Deb's house for now, but I'm hoping to get a flat soon. The trip up was great, even though it took ten hours. Well, I must go. You know how rarely I write, but I will try to do better this year. Love Clare / Clark

This is my recording for Yoopers's ' Gallery of personal greetings from around the world'.

And end it off with any personal comments you wish to include.

[forrestunifreak]

That reminds me.
Must add DarkTom to the list.

John Childs.
Harper.
John Foss.
Gilby.
Underdog.
Naomi.
KlaasBill.
Jagur.
TomBlackwood.
UniBrier.
DaveStockton.
Kris Holm.
james_potter.
spencer_hochberg.
DarkTom.

I've talked to... John Foss, Gilby, UniBrier, Kris Holm, and Spencer...


Hey, haha, I have like 5 minutes of footage of John Foss explaining the street comp at NAUCC.

[monkeyman]

No one wants to hear me talk? Ok fine.

I finally listened to the gallery in this thread the other day, and the antelope thing by GILD and the rootbeer thing by Yoopers were two of the funniest things ever....and I have no problem understanding the Australians at all....

I'll try to get a recording up soon, but I don't know if I have anything to record with....

[sobriquet]

It's not working for me, could I email it to someone and have them put it up?

[GILD]

Yeah. Unigild att gmail dott com

[sobriquet]

How do I convert it to an MP3 from an aif?

[GILD]

How do I convert it to an MP3 from an aif?
Which program did you use to record it?
It should offer you an option to 'Save As' from where you can select MP3.

Failing that, any one of a bunch of free audio convert (http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=free+audio+converter+aif+to+mp3&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)ers will do the trick.

[sobriquet]

After all that hard work it is finally up there.

[yoopers]

After all that hard work it is finally up there.
Okay, Mr. Briquet. Great recording in spite of the low quality microphone. But you said that we would be able to tell what state you're from by your recording. I have to confess that your accent sounds absolutely and almost boringly normal, like from the midwest, possibly Ohio or something similar. Should we keep guessing?

[sobriquet]

Naw, I'm from Michigan, I still don't know how those girls knew where I was from, maybe it was magic.

[yoopers]

Naw, I'm from Michigan, I still don't know how those girls knew where I was from, maybe it was magic.
When I typed "Ohio or something similar", I had Michigan in mind. In what part of the grand state do you live?

[dudewithasock]

I just added mine.

[sobriquet]

SouthWest

[yoopers]

SouthWest
Right around the corner from me, then.

[iridemymuni]

hey i did the script !!!!!!!!! (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=224398)

[jake_amos]

- struggles throw snow and blistering snow - "cant let thread die"

[yoopers]

Phil,

Thanks for the contribution to the gallery. Love the accent, or as you would say, "What accent?"

Bruce

[monkeyman]

My voice will be in Matt and I's new unicycling video...will that count?

[JJuggle]

My voice will be in Matt and I's new unicycling video...will that count?
"Matt and I's"?????

[monkeyman]

"Matt and I's"?????

:( That's one of the areas of English I've never gotten.

So sorry. :(

what should I have said?

[GILD]

Phil,

Thanks for the contribution to the gallery. Love the accent, or as you would say, "What accent?"

Bruce
Yeah, but it's funny, he doesn't sound like any LegoMan I've ever heard.

[dudewithasock]

:( That's one of the areas of English I've never gotten.

So sorry. :(

what should I have said?

:rolleyes:

I think it's "blah blah bah in mine and Matt's unicycling video."

[yoopers]

About time for this to have a bump. Any new takers? It's real simple; record your personal greeting to the rest of us in mp3 or .wav format and upload it to the gallery so we can all enjoy your words, accent, and culture.

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/greetings

Here's a personal challenge. I'd love to hear an input from Naomi. Any others?

[habbywall]

Billythemountain I choose you!

[monkeyman]

Spudman, Harper, and Gilby

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I'll put mine in when I get a mike.

[James_Potter]

I'll do mine when I get around to it!

[iridemymuni]

I'll do mine when I get around to it!


well duh

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

well duh
Hey, you got the 100th post on this thread!!!

[GILD]

I'll do mine when I get around to it!

Ask John if you can use his once he (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=308444&postcount=12670)'s done with it.

[monkeyman]

I've actually got this recorded, but it won't upload for some reason...:(

[Ducttape]

I've actually got this recorded, but it won't upload for some reason...:(


Mine won't load for me either oh well I'll get a round tuit eventually.... lol....

[GILD]

Keep trying gents.
I'm curious to hear those recordings.
I think the galelry is playing silly buggers at the moment, should be fine tomoro.

[ivan]

I added my greeting (http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=291581).

Je ne traisarié le párstour raie ne ménchon de's a nãime wou le se's gehuon.

Ķ?

[habbywall]

bump

[JJtheunicycle]

this is a fun thread, im making a new entry in a few minutes, youll have to tell me watchoo guys think

[Ducttape]

Uploading as we speak!

EDIT: DONE (http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=309642)

[dudewithasock]

I might upload a new greeting one of these days...my old one sounds funny.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

i might upload my greeting one of these days as well. i just don't have one yet...

[JJtheunicycle]

i might upload my greeting one of these days as well. i just don't have one yet...
yay! you totally should!

[JJtheunicycle]

I still havent uploaded one, very soon though bump

[yoopers]

In my education philosophy class, my group partner and I recently put on a presentation of one Mr. John Locke as an assignment. My partner is the chief photographer of 23 Action News in Rockford so he had just a few resources available to him. Here's a spot that we used during our presentation. In the spot, I play John Locke and my presentation partner, Matt, plays the reporter. We shot the interview in my living room.

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=yoopers98&p=r