Thanks to digital media , future generations will probably have no trouble hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger say `` I 'll be back '' or James Earl Jones , as Darth Vader , telling Luke that he 's his father . Now , Wikipedia wants to give other notable people the same treatment . The crowd-sourced online encyclopedia wants to add audio clips of people who are the subjects of articles on the site , `` so that Wikipedia 's readers know what they sound like and how to correctly pronounce their names . '' The brainchild of Wikipedia editor Andy Mabbett , the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project ( WikiVIP ) was announced this weekend . It asks people who are the subject of articles to upload audio clips , about 10 seconds long , of them speaking . The clips will be added to their pages . In the early going , the project has a distinctly British feel to it . Writer and actor Stephen Fry was approached by Mabbett and became one of the first celebrities to lend his voice . In his Wikipedia biography , an audio link now appears after his name . `` Hello . My name is Stephen Fry . I was born in London , and I 've been in the entertainment business since , well , I suppose about 1981 , '' he says in the recording . Volunteers have also identified more than 300 clips from the BBC they 'd like to use . The British network is reviewing the clips and has uploaded more than half of them , according to the announcement . Examples include Tim Berners-Lee , the English computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web , and Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi . People who are the subjects of articles and willing to participate are asked to e-mail project volunteers . Wikipedia also is seeking volunteers to help transcribe the recordings , as well as to encourage article subjects to participate .
Wikipedia is using audio clips of its human subjects ' voices . The voice - intro feature asks for 10-second clips . British entertainer Stephen Fry is among first contributors .