Wikipedia's Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People's Biographies

Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life. Starting today, Wikipedia will make that possible with the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project, adding short voice recordings to the online encyclopedia. And that's truly awesome. WikiVIP announced the program with a demo recording from British personality Stephen Fry. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke's page also boasts a voice recording. The project page says it was undertaken "so that we know what notable people sound like; and how they pronounce their own names." A simple, goal, but infinitely profound.

There's something intangibly powerful in the human voice. Curiosity leads us to wonder what great historical figures sounded like—and we get deeply offended if modern portrayals don't fit the sound we imagined. Just ask Daniel Day-Lewis.

If you're the type of person who has a Wikipedia biography, go here to see how you can get your voice saved forever. Just don't sneeze or snort or anything weird—people will be listening to that recording eons from now.

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維基百科頁面將新增音頻簡(jiǎn)介，真實(shí)再現(xiàn)歷史的聲音。

想象一下，能夠聽到歷史上偉人的聲音，那該有多棒！聲音資料為他或她在歷史中的形象塑造豐富了材料。從今天起，維基百科將開展維基百科聲音簡(jiǎn)介項(xiàng)目，在原有的文字資料基礎(chǔ)上增加音頻簡(jiǎn)介，這個(gè)項(xiàng)目聽起來真心不錯(cuò)。

在宣介該項(xiàng)目時(shí)，播放了一段英國名人史蒂芬·弗雷的錄音，阿波羅16號(hào)宇航員查理·杜克的維基頁面也新增了他本人的音頻資料。項(xiàng)目啟動(dòng)頁面上說：“為維基百科添加音頻資料，可以讓我們都知道那些為人們的聲音，聽他們自己親自念出自己的名字?！边@雖然是簡(jiǎn)單的一步，但卻意義深遠(yuǎn)。

人的聲音有一種無形的強(qiáng)大力量。好奇心總驅(qū)使我們猜測(cè)歷史上某位名人的聲音聽起來到底是什么樣子——我們通常都有這種感覺，我們對(duì)現(xiàn)代人們的刻意模仿會(huì)很反感——這一點(diǎn)美國好萊塢影星丹尼爾·戴·劉易斯最清楚不過了，他在電影中曾扮演美國開國之父林肯。

名人們現(xiàn)在都可以去自己的維基百科頁面上，聽一下自己的聲音到底啥樣，不要感到怪異哦，從此，所有人上維基百科都能聽到了哦。