Wikipedia:GLAM/BBC voice project

Andy Mabbett is working with the BBC to help them to open licence a selection of audio "snippets" of notable people talking, from certain of their radio programmes. See the BBC blog post launching the project.

The main project page is at Commons:BBC voice project.

Event

On Saturday, 18 January 2014 the BBC, the Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons UK and the Wikimedia community teamed up to host an open event, "Speakerthon", in the Media Cafe, New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London.

Attendees were given access to the Radio 4 permanent audio archive, the tools to take samples of voice recordings and the opportunity to upload them to Wikimedia Commons for inclusion into Wikipedia.

The BBC uploaded the files, in Commons Category:BBC voice samples, and they were then added to articles.

Please direct any queries to Andy Mabbett, who helped to run the event.

See also

• Wikipedia:Voice intro project
• Have you heard? – The spoken voices of notable people - Wikimania 2012 presentation on this and the Voice intro project