Home » Community Blog » Publisher's Desk

Our Pronunciation Guide

By Michael Ricci
January 16, 2025
1,783 Views

Our Pronunciation Guide: Our Pronunciation Guide

All About Jazz is on a mission to help radio hosts and podcasters pronounce your name correctly and we developed the perfect solution by allowing you to pronounce your own name and associate it with your AAJ musician page.

To create an audio file of your name sounded out, simply follow the steps below. Once uploaded, your pronunciation will be available to listeners—including industry professionals—on your musician page (check out this example) and on our dedicated pronunciation landing page.

How-To

Pronounce your name twice, first slowly enunciating each syllable, and then at normal speed (listen to the example below);
Both the slow and the normal pronunciation should be contained in a single audio file;
The audio file should be saved in MP3 format. If you record it as an M4A file, you can convert it to MP3 here;
Make sure there is no background noise when recording the file;
The purpose of this process is to share the "authentic pronunciation" of your name, so please pronounce it as it is in your language. Should you wish to add a pronunciation that might be easier for English audiences, you may do so after the authentic pronunciation.

Once you have created your audio file, email it along with your All About Jazz musician page link to Ludovico Granvassu. Ludovico will then associate the file with your All About Jazz musician page.

Posted to Publisher's Desk IN THE All About Jazz GROUP
Read more posts by Michael Ricci

PREVIOUS / NEXT

Your AAJ... Customized!
< Previous

Best of 2024
Next >

Comments

Support All About Jazz

All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, championing it as an art form and, more importantly, supporting the musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made "AAJ" one of the most culturally important websites of its kind, read by hundreds of thousands of fans, musicians and industry figures every month.

Go Ad Free!

To maintain our platform while developing new means to foster jazz discovery and connectivity, we need your help. You can become a sustaining member for as little as $20 and in return, we'll immediately hide those pesky ads plus provide access to future articles for a full year. This winning combination vastly improves your AAJ experience and allow us to vigorously build on the pioneering work we first started in 1995. So enjoy an ad-free AAJ experience and help us remain a positive beacon for jazz by making a donation today.