Voice-over recording is an increasingly important role within our community. Our translators do an amazing job properly cataloging our database of words. One piece of information that we also want to catalog is audio pronunciations. As a voice-over recorder, you take on the responsibility of recording audio pronunciations for all our headwords and dialects in the database.

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Table of Contents

Step 1: Join the #voice-over-recorders Slack Channel

Join the #voice-over-recorders Slack Channel to introduce yourself to the community and express interest in any given project

Step 2: Create an Igbo API Editor Platform Account

Before you get started with this doc, make sure that you've created an account. Create an account following our How to Create an Igbo API Editor Platform Account guide

Step 3: Identify Words with Audio

Please follow the Igbo API Editor Platform Reference Guide guide to learn how to use the different features in the Igbo API Editor Platform.

Once you've logged into the platform, you will see a column with the Audio Recording label. A red label means there's no audio recording for the document's headword, a green label means there is an audio recording

This word has a recording, because it has a green 'Play' button

<aside> 💡 The green label is a playback button, if you click on it will play the audio pronunciation for the file.

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This word has a recording, because it has a green 'Play' button

Step 4: Your Task: Start Recording Audio

1. Go to the 'Words' tab and go through each of the words in the database. You can click on the 'View' option for a word document to see its Show View
2. If there is no audio recording to listen to, record a new audio recording. If there is an audio recording, go back to the first step in this list
3. Once you've submitted your audio recording, double-check that it was successfully recorded by playing the audio back in the show view.
4. Depending on your User Permission Level, you will take different steps
   1. If you're an Editor, you won't have the ability to merge word suggestions. So you can approve your new word suggestion document and move back to the first step in this list.
   2. If you're a Merger, then you can merge the document and move back to the first step in this list.

The "New pronunciation recorded" text will appear when you record new audio