Nous cherchons des voix zurichoises

La raison honnête n'est pas qu'il n'existe pas de synthèse vocale suisse allemande — il en existe désormais. La raison est la licence. Chaque corpus de parole zurichoise que nous avons trouvé est publié pour la recherche et non pour un produit. Qui a besoin de vrai zurichois, proprement licencié et consenti, doit l'enregistrer lui-même. S'ajoute ce que les voix synthétiques font mal de toute façon : le rythme, les mots avalés, l'hésitation, la différence entre deux personnes du même quartier.

Classées par engagement, la plus petite d’abord — et c’est la plus petite qui nous vaut le plus. Chacune indique ce qui existe déjà pour elle aujourd’hui.

Ce texte n’existe qu’en allemand et en anglais : il s’adresse à des personnes qui vivent ici. Vous le lisez en English.

• 01

  Read our lines

  You grew up in or around Zurich. Twenty minutes, once or now and then.

  You read sentences we wrote and say, for each one: that is how it is said, that is not, or nobody says that at all.

  All 390 lines from everyday and care scenes are machine-checked for Zurich forms. An ear from here hears what no rule can: a sentence that is correct and that still nobody says. And these are sentences somebody says to a frightened person at half past six in the morning.

  État actuel

  Every situation is open to read. Point at the line that is wrong through the feedback window on the page.

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• 02

  Record your voice

  Zurich dialect as a first language — any age, any corner of the canton.

  A few minutes of speech on topics we suggest, with a consent form you read before you agree to anything.

  Training on many different speakers is the best-evidenced listening method there is — and it cannot be built out of a Standard German computer voice reading dialect. The listening lab is built on exactly this.

  État actuel

  What the consent looks like is further down this page. The first voices go into the listening lab.

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• 03

  Be a speaking partner

  You speak dialect and have half an hour now and then.

  Join a speaking round: a small group, a topic, a time. You simply talk the way you talk.

  The speaking loop in Heidi deliberately ends not in a score but in a room with other people — because that is where a language is spoken. A score is what a product offers instead of that.

  État actuel

  Built: rounds, topics, sign-ups and attendance. Open a round or sign up for one.

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• 04

  Teach

  You teach German or dialect, freelance or at a language school.

  Tell us what you offer and what your learners would need here. We are not building a marketplace against you — we are building the material underneath.

  A language school has people in a room and knows where learners actually fail. Heidi has checked dialect material and the exercises generated from it. The two fit together.

  État actuel

  No tutor profiles or matching yet. What there is, is a conversation.

  Écrivez-nous à ce sujet

As a learner you can already open a group and pass on a link, and you can sign up for a speaking round. Both work from zero members — they only get better when somebody above says yes.

ParlerGroupes

Vous gardez la main. Nous vous disons à l'avance à quoi servira l'enregistrement, vous pouvez le retirer, et le consentement pour le produit n'est pas celui pour la recherche. Nous supposons que vous ne voulez pas du second tant que vous ne le dites pas explicitement.