Andrew Bruce

  • Fatiha Practice – 10 May

    This is the same transliteration as 8th May, but I decided to just give it a straight cold read without worrying about cadence.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 9 May

    This is the same transliteration as 8th May, but I decided to just give it a straight cold read without worrying about cadence.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 8 May

    I found a transliteration that had some slight differences to others I have used up to now and it felt a little easier to follow and recite. I’m still lost in terms of getting the cadence right.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 7 May

    I followed along with a YouTube guide in ‘listen and repeat’ mode, but my problem is that I don’t have the text memorised yet. This video was flashing the individual words as they are recited and I had to keep pausing and rewinding to get even one line read and recited. I do think it

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  • Fatiha Practice – 6 May

    GPT keeps suggesting further and further refinement of the notation it uses to indicate cadence, stress etc. I followed along the latest suggestion today, but I’m not happy with the results.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 5 May

    Today I attempted with a modified GPT recitation guide. This one added ‘stress’ numbers to show which sylables are lengthened in most recitiations. I found it a bit confusing and hard to read, and I’m not particularly happy with the outcome.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 4 May

    Today I tried a cold read from another GPT generated pronunciation guide, this one claimed to show me the call and response structure of the prayer, but I found the structure unclear, and I’m still uncertain of the pronunciation. I also recorded an English language version today.

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  • Fatiha Practice – 3 May

    Back to a cold reading today. I asked ChatGPT to re-write the transliteration I have been using to show me the sylable and emphasis structure.

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