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HPR Branding
This episode refers to the initial release of
https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_documentation/src/branch/main/branding.md
The Intro
Duration
It will always be 30 seconds long and in some edge cases may be slightly longer. The following table will help put that into context. It gives the percentage of the show the intro takes related to the length of the shows.
1.7% of an average show (29 minutes 30 seconds)
0.1% of our longest show (7 hours 27 minutes)
187.5% of our shortest show (16 seconds)
Breakdown
Generation
The intro is generated by the
process_episode.bash
script and uses the
say.php
file to generate the data.
The text is
created
using
piper test to speech
. It was previously created using
espeak
, and we are open to
suggestions
on how to improve it.
The text is played over the HPR Theme Music
Theme Music Credits
The background is an arrangement by
Maestraccio
which is released under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
license, of the HPR Theme, composed by
slick0
which has
No Copyright
applied.
Message
To effectively communicate an event it’s important to convey the answers to
Who?
,
What?
,
When?
,
Where?
, and
Why?
The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the lead contains all the essential points of a story. As far back as 1913, reporters were taught that the lead should answer these questions about the situation being reported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
What?, When?, Where?
The first sentence is always
This is Hacker Public Radio episode (show id) for “(day of week)” the “(day number)” of “(month and year).
Saying the name of the show at the beginning of an episode is called establishing
brand recognition
. It is standard for podcasts, TV and Radio shows as well as on broadcast networks, not to mention the pre-rolls in a movie.
We started to do it because some of our Visually Impaired users appreciated knowing what show is playing. Now the same reason can be applied to everyone as the use of visual controlled
User interfaces
have diminished. Most people control the playlist with headset or voice controls.
Saying the show id, and date is common where there are a lot of episodes eg: news or weather shows. It is often skipped where the content is sufficient to identify the episode, eg “the last episode of the foo bar baz podcast, or the last Saturday Night Live”
We include the show id and date to allow the listener to refer to the episode easily. As we have literally thousands of shows, we need to help people identify which show they are now listening to, so that it can be easily shared, or commented on.
What? Why?
We always include
Today’s show is entitled. (title)
. If the episode is part of a series then we also include
It is part of the series (series name)
. We always include the show
(synopsis)
.
This tells the listener what the show is about. It allows them to skip the episode if they wish. They may wish to do this for many reasons, for example:
because they are not interested in the topic,
they wish to listen to it while in front of a computer to reference the accompanying show notes,
they are listening in public and the topic might not be appropriate.
Who?
The next part will either be
It is the first show by new host (host name)
,
It is the (multiple of 10)th show of (host name)
, or
It is hosted by (host name)
We are required by the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
license to credit our hosts, so we do.
We think it’s important to highlight new hosts especially, so our community we encourage them to continue to contribute.
It’s also nice to call out hosts who have been contributing a lot by highlighting each 10th show they send in.
Where?
We always include
and is about (minutes)minutes long
to give people an idea of how long the show is.
Normal broadcasts have to fit neatly into a standard TV/Radio Broadcast schedule. Many podcasters now follow the same tradition of having episodes of a predictable length. Eg: 30 minutes or an hour.
On HPR,
there is no restriction on how long the show can be
so it’s desirable to give the listener a way to know how long the episode is so they can plan accordingly.
Warning
We always include either
It carries a clean flag
or
It carries an explicit flag
.
This is also common for broadcasts where they are dealing with a topic that may be disturbing to some people.
What
We always include
The summary is. (summary)
.
As this also tells the listener what the show is about.
License
In the event that the show is not released
CC-BY-SA
we include
Todays show is licensed under a (license_long_name) license.
Outro
Theme Music Credits
The background is an arrangement by
Maestraccio
which is released under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
license, of the HPR Theme, composed by
slick0
which has
No Copyright
applied.
Over the music is the following text recorded by
Manon
which has
No Copyright
applied.
You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at
hackerpublicradio.org
.
Today’s show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then click on our contribute link to find out how easy it really is.
Hosting for HPR has been kindly provided by
anhonesthost.com
, the
Internet Archive
and
rsync.net
.
Unless otherwise stated, today’s show is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
license.
Discussions about the HPR Theme
2023-04 intro
2022-03 Great Intro
2022-03 TTS
2022-03 The TTS voice
2021-11 Theme - was “Possible cause and solution to subscriber attrition(trying again without encryption)”
2020-08 the voice
2019-11 Ken’s Voice Is Better Than espeak
2018-09 HPR Branding
2018-09 Accordion outro
2018-10 Intro volume
2018-10 TTS over intro music
2016-02 speech synthesis during intro
2015-12 How to check if the intro and outro are added
2015-02 Intro and Outro
2014-12 Outro Theme
2014-12 Bug Fix HPR Intros
2014-11 MaryTTS, clipping
2014-11 An HPR Theme Question, And First Time Member
2014-02 What’s the word on intro and outro clips?https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2014-September/002266.html
2011-09 HPR Theme
2009-06 my eps for HPR and intro