Marble/VoiceOfMarble

Thousands of people use Marble on the Nokia N900 to find their way and explore the world. Become their voice! Record your voice speaking a handful of turn instructions like Bear left! and send them to us. With a bit of luck you're chosen to be the voice of Marble: Your voice becomes the default speaker in Marble's next version 1.2.

Requirements

Please note that certain prerequisites must be fulfilled by all contributions. In particular

• You need hardware equipment like a microphone to record voice samples
• You must be the copyright holder of all audio files (voice samples) you send in
• You must license all audio files (voice samples) CC BY-SA 3.0

Timeline

The table below lists important dates during the contest. It's best to prepare your contribution early to avoid any time problems towards the deadline -- quality recordings take their time.

Date	Description
2011-06-15	The voice contest starts.
2011-07-15	Upload deadline.
2011-07-18	Winner announcement.
2011-07-27	Marble 1.2 ships with the winning voice.

Participation

Interested in participating? Please follow these steps:

1. Choose one or more languages you want to record audio files in. Prepare translations of the commands for languages other than english. See Translations for details.
2. Record all voice samples and store them as .ogg files. See Recording for details.
3. Upload your voice in time for the upload deadline (cf. timeline above). See Upload for details.

Note

Found a problem? Need some help? Don't be shy, give us a call. Write a mail to [email protected] or talk to us in IRC (#marble in freenode).