Bug#785260: autotalent: package description grammarfix

[Justin B Rye]

Package: autotalent
Version: 0.2-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

The package description for autotalent contains a trivial grammatical
error.

> Package: autotalent
[...]
> Description: pitch correction LADSPA plugin
>  Autotalent is a real-time pitch correction plugin. Users can specify
>  the notes that a singer is allowed to hit, and Autotalent makes sure
>  that they do. Autotalent may be used for more exotic effects, like
>  the Cher / T-Pain effect, making your voice sound like a chiptune,
>  adding artificial vibrato, or messing with your formants. Autotalent
>  can also be used as a harmonizer that knows how to sing in the scale
>  with you. Or, you can use Autotalent to change the scale of a melody
>  between major and minor or to change the musical mode.

(So far so good... note that the user is consistently being addressed
as "you".)

>  .
>  Autotalent was designed from the ground up to process musical melodies,
>  whether sung by voice or played on some kind of instrument.

"Sung by voice" is a bit unidiomatic - after all, singing is always
"by voice".  The simplest fix is to drop those two words.

>                                                              As long as
>  one gives it a monophonic source (i.e. a melody in a single, 1-channel
>  track), he can usually expects pretty good results.

Referring to the user as "one" is oddly formal English when it's
surrounded by examples of referring to the user as "you"; and then it
leads to an unnecessarily gender-biassed use of "he" and a verb
agreement error, "can expects".  Make this "As long as you give it
[...], you can usually expect [...]".

>                                                      So this means that
>  if you're in the business of processing vocal harmonies, you should
>  apply it to each monophonic vocal part separately. If in the spirit of
>  experimentation you're daring enough to try tuning or pitch shifting
>  an entire chord using one instance of the plugin (again not what it's
>  meant for), you'll hear gritty nastiness.

All fine.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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