Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 5, 2005, 11:28 |
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Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> I recently bought a headset, and today I recorded my first spoken
> Asha'ille with it. I speak the newly translated Fear Litany:
>
>
http://arthaey.mine.nu:8080/~arthaey/conlang/writing/interlinears/fear-litany.html
>
> Files are currently in ogg format, but hopefully that won't be a
> problem for anyone...
No, I just googled for Ogg and found players that support it.
> It's surprisingly hard to speak a conlang. I had to do several takes
> of each sentence. I wonder how "American" it still sounds? Any accent,
> of course, is my non-native speakerness showing through, and not
> representative of "real" Asha'ille. ;)
Have you tried reading from an IPA transcription? Doing that
considerably improved my Slvanjec pronunciation. I still
didn't get the /i/ vs. /i\/ distinction right, but that's
supposed to be a licence even some native aspeakers do.
Yay, I remembered it this time! :)
Sally Caves wrote:
> I don't pronounce Teonaht correctly. But I mispronounce it fairly
> fluently--lot's of practice. It has much more palatalization than I
> give it
> for my "pretty" little readings. But I don't sound American, I don't
> think;
> I don't in any of the foreign languages I speak feebly. The French usually
> take me for British, and the Germans take me for French.
When I speak English I'm taken for Irish by Americans and for American
by everybody else. The Irish is probably because I sometimes pronounce
my /T/ and /D/ as stops, and voice my sibilants wrongly or not at all,
which is part of the Irish accent stereotype. I picked up my English
from my father's mother who had lived in Chicago for 10+ years, but
she still had an accent of course. Anyhow the "British" pronunciation
at school never stuck to me, although I *can* imitate it if I want to.
I must somehow have sensed that it was affected. It certainly was
with my last English teacher, who spoke an exaggerated girls' school
RP.
I wonder how I would pronounce longer stretches of Sohlob. Probably
rather French-like. My French is atrocious, but my father pronounced
all "unknown" languages like French, which rubbed off on my early
conlangs, and which still affects Sohlob prosody as I affect it.
Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> Emaelivpeith H. S. Teoh:
>
>>Wow. Impressive! It sounds rather Spanish to my untrained ears... is
>>this intentional?
It didn't to me. Neither did it sound very Murrican.
> The glottal stops, long /n/'s, and phonemic distinction between /i I/
> and /e E/ make it sound separate from Spanish to my ears... OTOH,
> Spanish *is* the only foreign language I can actually speak at all, so
> I would be willing to believe it could influence my pronunciation.
I didn't hear any glottal stops (probably due to my lousy speakers)
but picked up what I heard as emphatic sonorants which were rather cool!
>>Also, the sounds are a lot more connected than I thought. Now I'm
>>getting scared about recording samples of my conlangs... I seem to
>>want to articulate every word individually, to a point it'd definitely
>>not sound fluent.
I found that reading from IPA helped immensely there, although I
certainly still have that problem with Sohlob.
> Are there no anadewisms for distinctly articulated words? Regardless,
> if you (general you, not necessarily Teoh-you) want connectedness,
> just practice whatever sentences you want to record until you can
> recite them with something resembling "normal" speed and intonation.
> Easier said than done, but the practice will get you closer, even if
> you don't exactly hit your goal. Like I said, I had to make several
> recordings of each sentence so I could pick the most fluent-sounding
> one. From what others have said in the past, I'm pretty sure that's
> normal for recording conlangs.
I just heard from my stepson that our comp can indeed record sound.
Maybe I'll enlist his help and have a go at Sohlob. I would have to
compose a suitable text first, though.
--
/BP 8^)>
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