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LibriVox

About

LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Policies

Copyright

Listen

Listening to the files

Finding Audiobooks

Recommendations

Searching

Lists & Indexes

Other resources for listeners

Volunteer

(In another language: Français: Comment devenir benevole)

LibriVox volunteers narrate, proof listen, and upload chapters of books and other textual works in the public domain. These projects are then made available on the Internet for everyone to enjoy, for free.

There are many, many things you can do to help, so please feel free to jump into the Forum and ask what you can do to help!

Where to Start

Most of what you need to know about LibriVox can be found on the LibriVox Forum and the FAQ. LibriVox volunteers are helpful and friendly, and if you post a question anywhere on the forum you are likely to get an answer from someone, somewhere within an hour or so. So don't be shy! Many of our volunteers have never recorded anything before LibriVox.

The roles involved in making a LibriVox recording

Types of Projects

We have three main types of projects:

Collaborative projects: Many volunteers contribute by reading individual chapters of a longer text.

We recommend contributing to collaborative projects before venturing out to solo projects.

Dramatic Readings and Plays: contributors voice the individual characters. When complete, the editor compiles them into a single recording
Solo projects: One experienced volunteer contributes all chapters of the project.

Proof Listener (PL)

Not all volunteers read for LibriVox. If you would prefer not to lend your voice to LibriVox, you could lend us your ears. Proof listeners catch mistakes we may have missed during the initial recording and editing process.

Narrator (Reader)

Narrators record themselves reading a section of a book, edit the recording, and upload it to the LibriVox Management Tool.

For an outline of the Librivox audiobook production process, please see The LibriVox recording process.

One Minute Test

Before jumping in to a project, we require you to submit a sample recording so that we can make sure that your recordings setup works so that you do not waste the effort of reading whole chapters that are unusable due to a preventable technical glitch.

1-Minute Test

(In another language: Deutsch, Español, Francais, Italiano, Portugues)

Record

Newbie Guide to Recording

(In another language: Deutsch, Español, Francais, Nederlands, Português, Tagalog, 中文)

Instructional Videos

Edit

Editing Audio

(In another language: (Montage Audio en français)

Recording and Editing With Word Processor

(In another language: (Effacer les erreurs dans Audacity en français).

Check

Checker tool, for checking your audio volume
ReplayGain, for checking volume and amplifying within Audacity

Export

How to Export Files

Upload

How to Send Your Recording

Dramatic Readings and Plays

Recording Resources

Book Coordinator (BC)

A book coordinator (commonly abbreviated BC in the forum) is a volunteer who manages all the other volunteers who will record chapters for a LibriVox recording.

How To Become A Book Coordinator

Metadata Coordinator (MC)

Metadata coordinators (MCs), help and advise Book Coordinators, and take over the files with the completed recordings (soloists are also Book Coordinators in this sense, as they prepare their own files for the Meta coordinators). The files are then prepared and uploaded to the LibriVox catalogue, in a lengthy and cumbersome process.

More info:

Graphic Artist

Translator

Homepage Translation

Resources and Miscellaneous

Resources

How to Edit the Librivox Wiki

NOTE: Anyone may read this Wiki, but if you wish to edit the pages, please log in, as this Wiki has been locked to avoid spam. Apologies for the inconvenience.

If you need to edit the Wiki, please request a user account, with a private mail (PM) to one of the admins: dlolso21, triciag, or knotyouraveragejo.

You will be given a username (same as your forum name) and a temporary password. Please include your email address in your PM.

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+Narrators record themselves reading a section of a book, edit the recording, and upload it to the LibriVox Management Tool.
 For an outline of the Librivox audiobook production process, please see [[How_LibriVox_Works#The_LibriVox_recording_process | The LibriVox recording process]].
 ===One Minute Test===
+Before jumping in to a project, we require you to submit a sample recording so that we can make sure that your recordings setup works so that you do not waste the effort of reading whole chapters that are unusable due to a preventable technical glitch.
 *[[1-Minute Test]]
 ::(In another language: [[1-Minuten-Probe|Deutsch]], [[Prueba de 1 minuto|Español]], [[Test 1 minute|Francais]], [[Test di 1 minuto|Italiano]], [[Teste_de_1_minuto|Portugues]])

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