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FAQ
What language are the recordings in?
These recordings of Universidad del Aire are in Spanish and were recorded in Havana, Cuba in the 1940s-60s.
Do I have to know Spanish to participate in this project?
No, not necessarily! We need help identifying masculine and feminine voices, music and advertisements in the recordings so we can make educated inferences about when there is a segment or speaker change and who is speaking. You don't need to know Spanish to identify these segments. If you would like to help us transcribe the recordings, Spanish is required for that task.
Where did these recordings come from?
The Universidad del Aire program originally aired on Radio CMQ in Havana, Cuba in the 1940s-1960s. The programs were recorded on 16" lacquer discs by the radio station. Radio CMQ donated the recordings to the Instituto de Historia de Cuba (IHC). In 2017, UCLA Library collaborated with IHC to digitize the recordings. Read more about the digitization process here.
What will you do with the data when you're done with this project?
We will give copies of the transcripts to Instituto de Historia de Cuba. The full recordings are already available through UCLA Library's International Digital Ephemera Project and we'll make the transcripts available there, too.
Do you have any additional documentation about this project?
We have added the Python scripts we use to create the audio clips in a GitHub repository. If you have other documentation or technical questions about this Zooniverse project, please reach out to @tttkay or @genoes on the project team.
Create subject set manifests: https://github.com/genoes/manifest_generator
Create audio segments based on time: https://github.com/genoes/pydub-scripts/tree/master/audio-segment
Create audio segments based on silence: https://github.com/genoes/pydub-scripts/tree/master/split-silence
I'd like to use the Universidad del Aire collection and/or this Zooniverse project in my classroom. Can you help?
Yes, we'd love to! Contact @tttkay to get started.