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This is absolutely fantastic. I am Italian, worked abroad for ~15 years in English speaking countries and companies, and I've always been frustrated by my inability to convey some of the greatest poems of Italian literature to my English-speaking friends.

This project of yours is brilliant.

Small pieces of feedback I have:

- allow for a quicker way to change playback speed - instead of clicking the "points", and then "playback speed", and then change the speed, make 3-4 instant buttons available (0,5x, 0,75x, 1x, 1,5x).

- if there's a youtube video of the specific poem being narrated by people like Gassman, Proietti, etc, a video added at the bottom of the page might be great. e.g. Gassman legge Pavese: "Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi" [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3qXRIC9YQ&list=PLfk7A2f8wT...

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Thank for the suggestions!

My voice is terrible, so I'll definitely follow your latter point.

I hadn't even thought about playback speed, especially since those are all pretty quick, but I'll think about it for sure.

Your voice is not terrible, I enjoyed it quit a lot. By the way kudos to you, I'm Italian and that was interesting for me too! I'd love to have it in other languages too. Oh, and also I love the website vibes! The right mix between 2000 websites and contemporary elegance!

I was actually thinking of doing the same for Latin...

Now the infrastructure is built, so the effort should be much smaller (but I'd need of course much more support from an expert ^^ ).

Do you think it might have an audience?

I'd love to have it in languages that I don't speak with a deep poetry history, like Japanese, Indian, Persian, languages from Africa... but I guess the biggest problem there is not the infrastructure, is knowing the language.

But also Latin would be interesting, Latin has tons of great poems, even funny ones (I still remember Marziale :D )

Dude, yes! I was reading this and thinking "if only there was one for Latin..."!

There is a big Latin & Ancient Greek server on Discord, and the people over there would love your project for sure. Lots of them being Italians, it would be even better. Since you're wondering about the help of experts, there would be no better place to go to than there.

I dream of a unified platform for the classics - translation, archive of books, and so on... equidem adjuvabo si quidam tamen capiat umquam consilium. Vale!

Greek is sadly out of my reach, but I'm very curious about this Discord you mentioned.

Could you, here or by email, point it out to me? After this website has "settled" a bit, it might be fun to look into that Latin :)

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