Comments:Wikinews:Briefs/May 29, 2010

Comments from feedback form - "A bit shaky at times, but othe..."
A bit shaky at times, but otherwise an excellent debut for Rockerball! And I just LOVE listening to people with foreign accents. I hope we'll get to listen to you again in the near future? :) &mdash;Benny the mascot (talk) 14:36, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments from feedback form - "I wish I had an Australian acc..."
I wish I had an Australian accent! :) Thanks for doing the AW for the weekend - it's great to see more and more interest in the project. I got the file converted to .mp3 and uploaded to PodBean for iTunes as well as uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Rockerball, I really like your voice as your pronunciations are clear and is overall very nice to listen to. One thing I'd like to suggest is that you prepare your script in a way that helps you record each segment in a way that allows you to sound a little bit less as if you are reading from a script but rather just having a conversation. Usually what helps me is to read each segment aloud before I record and edit the script to make it sound more conversational. If for some reason I make a stumble, I just do a quick re-record in Audacity.

The only other thing is that if you get any background noise, please edit and re-record as it is a bit jarring to the listener.

Other than that, please keep at it and remember to have fun with it. Though it may not be all that interesting to you, everyone else on planet Earth absolutely and completely loves an Australian accent and we could pretty much listen for hours with Australian's reading even just the back of a cereal box :) so really play to that strength and give us some of your own personality and unique approach to each recording. Check out the style section on the workspace http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews/News_Briefs/Workspace#Style to assist you with fine tuning your recordings.

Look forward to today's recording! Turtlestack (talk) 18:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)