Cool! Did you play the didgeridoo?
When are you coming out with the techno version? 
(Maybe we can turn this into an internet meme like the Loituma Girl…)
And a question about this Box place… why do half the links not offer a Play button?
I was wondering this myself–I didn’t know how to put the “play” button on my link, even though I would have liked to do so. How is it done?
Okay, I’ve created a box account. If someone can help me figure out how I can record on my Mac, I’d be happy to contribute.
I don’t know about the Box account, but I can say a few things about recording on the Mac.
I used Audacity, which is a free download. My MacBook Pro has an internal microphone, but I also have a headset, and I used the microphone on the headset. The headset plugged into the line-in and line-out jacks on the side of the MB Pro.
If you don’t have Audacity, download and install it from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. To make MP3s, you have to download an additional piece of software, the LAME MP3 Encoder.
Once Audacity is running, hit the Record button, speak, hit the square Stop button, then Export the audio file to your desired audio file format.
I recorded mine with my MP3 player, then plugged it into my computer. The file was there and I just uploaded it to Box.
StG
You could be reading me my rights and I wouldn’t mind. You have a lovely accent.
wavs won’t play in box only mp3s.
Yes I did, but I cheated a little. I’m not real adept at the circular breathing and it breaks down after a dozen or so cycles (you can hear a breath after An Gadaí’s first sample) so I cloned the sample and spliced it into itself for the three minutes. I wish I could have held the tone for three minutes straight but I’m not there yet.
On the file type issue, at the time of my sampling there were 12 mp3s and 10 wav files. I used FreeRIP to convert my audio files to mp3, mostly because I knew it would be a smaller file size. It was just dumb luck that it streams from box.net instead of requiring a download. FreeRIP is, well, free. The actual recording I did with cakewalk.
Excellent work nd_n8, fair play to you!
I heard my voice file and I don’t think I sound American at all. It may be due to the fact that the mike seems to ‘pop’ a lot when I speak into it (probably because of the subcontinent accent which stresses the consonants so much), so I think I subconsciously soften the words a lot more.
Well thats my theory, anyway.
This is me. I think I may have been slightly influenced by hearing the OPs recording.
Well, you sound exactly like an Arizona/Washington hybrid fellow I know, but other than that I’ve not a clue.
Can we get a hint? 
You have a lovely voice!
I’ll add myself to the Australian Lincoln Impersonators Troupe.
Conveniently contains both samples in one file.
Y’know, I know it’s ‘rests’, not ‘sits’… but do you think I can say that? I’ve been corrupted by all the files I’ve listened to!
Did you slip and say “preposition” or is that the way Australians say “proposition”? I know you pronounce vowels differently from ours in the US (your vowels all kind of sound like short i (as in sit) to my ears :D), so I honestly don’t know - it’s not a word I remember hearing an Australian saying before.
That’s definitely proposition. Funny what you say about short vowels, that’s exactly what Australian’s accuse New Zealanders of, mercilessly.
There is NO way that **Cazzle **sounds like she’s saying ‘preposition’… is there? 
Well, to my New Jersey ears, yes. Sorry. 
It sounded exactly like preposition to me. I guess that answers my question.
And yes, New Zealanders, to the extent I can hear a difference between them and Autralians (which is not that much - I’m sure you folks can hear much more of a difference yourselves), are very much the same way or more so - I just listened to all the commentary on the extended LotR, and I’ve never heard so many short i’s in my life! There were a few times when I honestly had to think for a few seconds about what word was being said.
ETA: I kept having to remind myself that to these folks, it was all perfectly comprehensible and normal.
Huh. Did I sound the same? (Post #94) What’s really weird about this is I have a number of American friends (admittedly, NW states not eastern) and I don’t recall ever encountering this particular problem.
Plenty of other communication errors, but that’s a newie!
No, yours sounds like proposition. And now Cazzle’s does too. I’m losing my mind.
[Emily Litella]Never mind.:o[/Emily Litella]