Sunday, 17 September 2017

Tales From Other Worlds - The Boats of the Dead

To celebrate St. Hildegard's Day, I'm launching Tales From Other Worlds, a video series in which I read passages in my conlangs. The first one is in iljena, and tells the legend of The Boats of the Dead.
My pronunciation isn't perfect - despite a few rehearsals, I stumble over my words a few times, and I'm not sure I've got all the sandhi and labiovelars right, but I hope you enjoy it anyway

The Boats of the Dead

Wednesday, 6 September 2017

Transcribing the Conlangery Podcast

I've managed to get a reasonably accurate speech recognition system up and running, and it's now posting Transcripts of the Conlangery Podcast on Conlang Sources Wiki. This is something I've been wanting to do for some time, since there's quite a lot of interesting stuff on there, and it becomes a lot easier to search and reference if it's available in text form. In particular, it's one of the best sources of third-party discussion of conlangs, which is exactly what the Conlang Sources Wiki is for.

Having been automatically transcribed, it is in need of human editing, so I'd be very grateful to anyone who could help out in that way.