QLab to playback 450 names during graduation ceremony?

[Tony Sprague]

I work at a small college where we have about 450 - 475 student graduate each May.  We traditionally have someone read each of the names for those students as they walk across the stage and get their diplomas and we do this pretty quickly, a name every few seconds.

Its harder to find people that will commit to do the name reading as they don't want to be the person that the crowd boos for missing or mispronouncing a name.

Wondering if we had the students all record their names into mp3's, how well we could build a show that had those 450 files in a series of queues to play through our audio system?

[micpool]

Just  name your 450  files with surname first and  drag them into Qlab and off you go.

It might be better to do a dialog replacement session, where you get a professional voice to listen to a loop of  the student recordings and repeat them until you are satisfied the pronunciation is accurate enough. That way you get a consistent voice and level, and you could also project a text cue with the VO.

Mic

[Andy Dolph]

For years at UNH, we've put a card and a golf pencil at each graduate's seat, they are instructed to write the phonetic pronunciation of their name on the card before the go up, and they hand it to the name reader on the stage.  It's worked at least well enough that we've never had anyone get booed.  We also keep the name reader at a mic right where the people come up on the stage so that if they aren't sure what the card says, they can ask the student quietly off mic.

That said, I totally agree with Mic's recommendation of using a professional voiceover artist - we've used Bill Rogers for a bunch of stuff, including some with very difficult chinese names.  We were on a phone call with him while he recorded, so we could have a native speaker give him the correct pronunciations and he did great with them.  (If you end up talking to him - bi...@billrogers.la - tell him that Andy from UNH sent you - he's a great guy, and has very reasonable rates.)

--
Contact support anytime: sup...@figure53.com
Follow QLab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/QLabApp
User Group Code of Conduct: https://qlab.app/code-of-conduct/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "QLab" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qlab+uns...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qlab/10847337-adbe-4391-896e-73f73197da53n%40googlegroups.com.