I have been lucky enough to be picked for the Maker Fair in Rome. Unfortunately I speak no Italian, so I am looking for some one to translate some of my sheets that accompany my exhibits.
I have three single pages in the Mac application Pages. I need some one to convert the English words into Italian.
I am making a translator which is basically a hand held sound shield and a keypad. The idea is that I can press a button and have the response spoken correctly. While I can't anticipate all the questions, I do get asked a lot of the same questions and I have a list of 32 lines I would like someone to record in Italian. I am looking for some one with the Audacity application or similar to record samples at 22050Hz sample rate in mono and produce a wav file of each line. Attached is a photo of my box being developed, it is not quite finished yet. The LED matrix is going to have a robot mouth that will move roughly in line with the sound. When finished the code and construction will be placed on line as an open source project.
OK
If the specific requirements are a problem, the three sheets can be done in Microsoft Word if required and the audio files can be in any format.
Cheers
Place the cards one at a time on the box to make the creature you want
The reader must see no card before it sees a new card
They are RFID cards, the sort that let you through secure doors
8 ) Dinosaurs and people do not mix - they were never on Earth together
9 ) I don't know if it permitted to laugh at an old man in a dress these days
Place the tokens on the pegs, the peg will light up red when the box sees it
The blue lights are what pegs will play if they have a token on them
The token holds the note and what instrument to play it on, the light on the peg determines when that note will be played.
It can play up to four notes at the same time, depending on the mode it is set to
At the moment it is set to a simple sequence of eight with four notes playing at each step
The white marks show what MIDI note number the token holds
Some tokens are percussion
When you fill up all the pegs you understand it is the gaps between the notes that make a tune interesting
Some tokens do not work in all places, try another peg
These tokens are used to get access into buildings
Just put them back anywhere
The idea it to turn out all the light by pressing a lit switch - but any press changes the state of the lights surrounding it depending on if the light pressed is in the centre, corner or middle of a row
You can only press a green light
You can only press a green or red light
You can do the puzzle in this number of turns
It is like the other game but much harder, here you have leave only red lights on, you can press a green or red light
Look at the middle light, it will flash briefly, then you have to press the light of the same colour that appears around it
This just shows patterns of coloured lights
The display is an OLED display only a few Euros from eBay
Yes they are half ping pong balls
Using one finger can sometimes dent the ball please use two or three
Do not hit the switches quickly, it will not help. You have to think what switch to press each time.
Sistema le carte nel box, una alla volta, per creare l'animale che vuoi
(la traduzione sarebbe creare la creatura ma è cacofonico, bisognerebbe trovare due sinonimi sia per creare che per creatura che "suonino" meglio)
Il lettore deve essere vuoto prima di posizionare una nuova carta
Lo scopo è di spegnere tutte le luci premendo quelle accese; attenzione, ogni pressione cambia lo stato delle luci vicine in base alla loro posizione: al centro, in un angolo o in mezzo ad una fila.
Puoi premere solo le luci verdi
Puoi premere solo le luci verdi o rosse.
Puoi risolvere il puzzle con questo numero di tentativi
E' come l'altro gioco ma molto più difficile. Devi lasciare accese solo le luci rosse potendo premere solo le rosse o le verdi
26)Guarda la luce centrale che lampeggia brevemente. Premi la luce, dello stesso colore, che appare vicino.
Il display é OLED e si trova su Ebay a poco prezzo.
Sì, sono mezze palline da ping pong
Grazie a XXX per avermi prestato la sua voce italiana.
Nessun animale è stato maltrattato durante la realizzazione di questo progetto
@Grumpy, we do not know the context
It's a game? Box in italian can be "scatola" but means "container"
I think is useful if you attach also the english manual to understand the context
or the 3 single pages (not Mac please, a pdf or simple text)
or a link to your project web site (this is on your profile theBox - where technology & art fuse )
Resolution in Audacity, 16, 24 or 32 bits float? (in attach only a test, but I have an orrible voice and orrible microphone)
For the context phrases 3 to 9 refer to this project:- http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Hardware/Crazy_People.html
While it is simple it is incredibly popular at exhibitions.
I have made a second pack of cards that split up dinosaurs with the artwork not a million miles from this book:-
So the cards for the people and the cards for the dinosaurs switch modes if some one tries to put a dinosaurs head on the body of a person. I say phrase 8 as a sort of joke.
Phrase 10 I say because in the UK we have the notion of being "politically correct", that is not judging other peoples life styles. Some of the people you make could be thought as "cross dressers" or transvestites. They do look funny but strictly you are not supposed to laugh these days but we all do. Again it is a sort of joke.
The last phrases refer to a new game so no internet page yet.
You push buttons (half ping pong balls ) and the light goes off but lights surrounding them invert. The idea is to get all the lights off. Based on an old game "lights out". Like this Lights Out (game) - Wikipedia but on a 3 by 3 grid.
I don't know how big my table will be so there might not be room to show this one but I hope to. Photo of it attached.
Ok. So the "tokens" are RFID. You could indicate them as "schede", that means "cards". And "token" as "scheda" (1 card).
Pegs -> gancini
Peg -> gancino
Or maybe the first translation, "piolo" for peg and "pioli" for pegs. Let's wait for other opinions.
The #9 could be translated in different ways, but I think you should forget to use the same meaning that the original phrase as in your language. Every culture has its own common sayings
You could use:
"Non so se di questi tempi ci si possa permettere di giudicare una persona dagli abiti che indossa"
Like the previous point, let's wait other opinions.
card->tessera OK
token->gettone o tessera
display->display schermo
pegs->piolo
stand-> stand (maybe "gazebo") @Paolo: si usa comunemente ormai anche da noi, lo Stand espositivo
box->scatola