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Italian FAST

Postby MartinS on January 4th, 2010, 2:50 pm

I am currently re-mastering the audio of the Italian FAST course (using uncompressed audio kindly provided by DemiPuppet). I realized that from Lesson 14 through lesson 18, there are many small glitches in the audio - about every 30 to 60 seconds, 0.1 to 0.3 seconds are missing. Thereby, many affected words become unrecognizable (one syllable missing on the average). While it is possible to reconstruct the dialogue sections by simply pasting the correct words from one of the several repetitions, the other sections really suffer from the omissions.

As the very same glitches are present in my uncompressed audio as in the MP3s on this site, I suppose the MP3s are derived from the same uncompressed originals I am working on now.

Has anybody access to error-free tapes 14 through 18? (From 19 on, they appear to be okay again.)
(DemiPuppet, are you still participating here? Somehow I hope you could check if this problem is already in the original FSI cassettes, or if something went wrong in the otherwise excellent digitization!).

BTW, the purpose of my remastering is:
- Split up the long files into one .MP3 per Dialogue / Exercise for better navigation
- Enhance clarity and understandability by frequency optimization
- Remove noise from next-door conversations sometimes audible at a disturbing level
- Adjust pauses where necessary (sometimes they are too short for the student to react)

Of course, when I am through, I shall contribute the result to this site.
MartinS
 
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