I just released The Pronunciation Guide for Film and TV Studies for beta testing:

[Updated 18 February 2007: http://www.screenlex.org]
The Guide contains terms used in film/TV studies and production, as well as people’s names. These items may be accessed in three ways:

1. As a downloadable MP3 file.
2. As playable online audio.
3. As a podcast (e.g., for your iPod) or RSS feed.

The intent behind The Guide is to provide English-speaking film/TV students with guidance on how to say words/names that are often difficult for them to master. I can well remember when I was starting to study film that I read more about the topic than I heard it spoken about. So, I often had trouble putting the printed word together with the spoken one. “Truffaut” is pronounced “true-foe”?, I’d ponder.

The Guide runs on Loudblog software, which does a good job of automating most of the uploading, the presentation of the MP3 files, creating a podcast feed and submitting it to iTunes (which I have not done yet).

A graduate research assistant, Peter Bradberry, helped me get the first 20 or so online–adding end credits to the files. The credits themselves were prepared with the help of Rick Dowling at UA’s Faculty Resource Center. Rick also conducted a podcasting workshop that helped jump-start this project.