tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post2513119398444471389..comments2024-02-24T11:28:02.310+00:00Comments on Poetry in Progress: Marion McCreadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-63881571823914425322012-04-26T00:08:00.502+01:002012-04-26T00:08:00.502+01:00you are invited to follow my blogyou are invited to follow my blogSteve Finnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12863026367048527526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-52008950764026044602012-04-25T19:21:09.041+01:002012-04-25T19:21:09.041+01:00thanks for the tip, jim, I nearly broke the comput...thanks for the tip, jim, I nearly broke the computer downloading some free but dodgy audio file converter to be able to upload it!! <br /><br />ahh but you'd need someone with an Edinburgh accent for that, you may not have noticed but it's entirely different... ;) and then there's the Aberdeen accent, when we were in Germany a few years back I could hear a couple talking in the holiday flat across from ours and was convinced they were Russian... only to meet them at breakfast and find out they were Aberdonian!! lol :)Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-52704326658255365972012-04-25T16:05:03.269+01:002012-04-25T16:05:03.269+01:00damn. i think i would trade a kidney for such an ...damn. i think i would trade a kidney for such an accent :-) i just finished lsitening to ian rankin's <i>fleshmarket alley</i> on cd during a long drive, and now i wish they had gotten you to read it, instead of the english guy they hired ...<br /><br />but then i think of an interview that i have remembered for twenty years. the interviewer asked a jamaican dub poet about "the future of the jamaican language". the poet looked at him like he was a fool and said, "it ain't no <i>language</i>, man. we just talk...." <br /><br />you just talk, don't you? :-))James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-64612179428892065122012-04-25T14:51:25.096+01:002012-04-25T14:51:25.096+01:00Try downloading Audacity. It’s free and good for c...Try downloading <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Audacity</a>. It’s free and good for cleaning up recordings. There’s a tool for getting rid of hiss for example and when I recorded my poem for that video I did a while back I went in an edited out all the intakes of breath and shortened some of the pauses. It’s quite intuitive.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com