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== My recording has missing segments, it skips. == bit depth of 16 bits per sample), which has a high data flow rate, ...

''I like the name 'hit squad'. It has vitality. '' === When a collaborative project has passed its due date(s) and has had no forum activity for over one month, volunteers may make a note on the ...

So, your project has found an MC and is now in Readers Wanted, the following things happen: '''1.''' A reader claims he has uploaded a file, but doesn't include the link.'' What do you do?'' ...

...e, our file host, called them - but LibriVox is entirely volunteer-run and has no "staff". Or maybe we should say: everybody is "staff" at LibriVox! == What has been chosen before? == ...

...dd it, or ask someone else to. '''Similarly, if you know that one of these has actually been taken on for reading, please delete it from the list or menti If a work has more than one author, please make an entry in the list for each author. Rem ...

These are threads where a serious discussion has arisen, and a decision has been made. Usually with these issues they have become formalish LibriVox po *[https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=718 free as in...] '''This one has come up a LOT.''' ...

The 300 series has two recording modes, music and speech, which both record the iRiver has superior sound reproduction. ...

...-generated content - what little there was - was fairly easy to spot. This has changed in recent years, and artificial voices or AI-generated images have * LibriVox celebrates human volunteer effort and collaboration and has many volunteers who enjoy making audio recordings, writing summaries, and l ...

<div class="note">NOTE: My method is similar to Gesine's, but has some minor nuances: book coordinator's choice! </div> * Check "reader's view" periodically for the follow up dates. If the file has been received, note the reader as CURRENT with a new follow up date, or ALL ...

<div class="note">NOTE: My method is similar to Gesine's, but has some minor nuances: book coordinator's choice! </div> * Check "reader's view" periodically for the follow up dates. If the file has been received, note the reader as CURRENT with a new follow up date, or ALL ...

An audio file has additional information that describes it. Usually that is at least an artis ...hat is too short (e.g. "The portrait of the artist as a young man" already has 41 characters). ...

...e#cool_edit|Cool Edit]], and likely [[Software We Use#audition|Audition]], has a Delete Silence tool: it can be set to look for gaps exceeding a certain [[Software We Use#audacity|Audacity]] has a [http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Truncate_Silence Truncate Silence] ef ...

choice if the listener has an old computer (mine was on Win 98.) I WinAmp's built-in Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in has a ...

The reason for this appears to be that the government of China has blocked access to the [http://www.archive.org/ Internet Archive], which hos LibriVox itself has not, to our knowledge, ever been blocked in China and we have no reason to ...

=== How do I know what has already been recorded? === * First of all, just become something has already been recorded by someone else does not mean you can't do it too! We ...

...rchive] our file host, calls them - LibriVox is entirely volunteer-run and has no staff. These picks are listener suggestions and can be very eclectic. Fr ...

Some other examples of things that might happen (but has not, to our knowledge happened): In the United States, determining whether a work has entered the public domain or is still under copyright can be quite complex. ...

above, for RealAudio, it has the extension .ram; in this case, the The [http://www.newhopemedia.org/tv_commercials.html second site] has ...

There has been a lot of discussion, since there ''are'' tempting reasons to use other ...sers. This is why every system that has been around for more than 10 years has its own audio format. For SUN it's called .au, for Microsoft .wav, Macs hav ...

...at 0:40, much louder than the rest of the recording. This particular peak has been caused by a puff of air hitting the mic, which is a common occurrence. <div class="tip">TIP: Audacity has a shortcut to find the 0-crossings. Simply select the area you want to high ...

...o experience with any of these online retailers! Caveat emptor! If anyone has any recommendations for suppliers based on personal experience, please jump ...

[There is nothing special about this script, it just has lots of Ps, Ts and Fs to check for microphone problems. Feel free to improv ...

...re a lot of fun, but they also involve a lot of extra work. The admin team has come up with the following good practice guidelines for dramatic works, whi ...o be any work which was not originally written as a play, but which the BC has converted into a script with multiple roles. The reason for this limitation ...

...lyrics were provably published before 1923, and the performer of the piece has explicitly placed a specific recording into the public domain, this can be Even if the copyright has expired on the music and any lyrics, it [http://www.pdinfo.com/record.htm s ...

The link to a podcast (which has the extension ".xml") is known as an Every page in the catalog has a short set of links just below the ...

...erman, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. It also has an on-screen keyboard for input, and you can select the language of the on- ...c audio pronunciations. [http://www.larousse.fr/ The French Larousse site] has bilingual dictionaries for Français/Anglais, Français/Allemand, Français/It ...

When a pair has been found, the date can be added.''''' ...

...her resources online which are listed here. But bear in mind that the book has to be in the public domain (see [[Copyright and Public Domain]]). If you ar ...- texts]: not indexed by Google, so well worth a search when nothing else has been found. Operates according to an odd mix of US and Canadian copyright ...

...are links to the individual years of the 10 years reading plan; each book has a link to its Librivox version, if there is one, or a link to a public doma ...

Some CD players can play MP3 disks (often the player has a little "MP3" written somewhere on it). This means that you can just copy if your player has this feature, it will pick up playing where you ...

...to read. This page is meant to highlight some of the ways LibriVox can and has been used in schools. ...

REFERENCES <tablename>(<fieldid>) means that a record with that number has to exist in the other table named here; ...and a role; it's then possible to query this table to see if a given user has a given role. This allows us to add roles without redoing the user table. - ...

...ed the file too. So you end up downloading "bits" of the file from whoever has some free upload capacity at any given time. This way everybody's upload-ca ...ople download from archive.org at the same time, speed slows down. It only has limited capacity. ...

...not allowed for >95-year-old works. Wikisource is not acceptable unless it has a scan that clearly shows a publication date of 96 years or more, because t *A reader has already recorded a book and 'donates' it to LibriVox. ...

...ribution of media, the astoundingly useful work of project gutenberg, that has been toiling away since 1971 making public domain texts available to anyone ...ibriVox would make the audio recordings, make them available, and the hope has always been that others would find great things to do with them. The ebay c ...

N.B. If you have a noise-cancelling microphone, or the sound on your computer has a noise-cancelling or noise suppression option, please disable this functio ...another popular "upgrade" among Librivox volunteers. It is big and solid, has virtually no background noise and great sound quality. (Blue Yeti mic from ...

LibriVox has an ongoing series of short nonfiction collections. The nonfiction collecti ...ner of living. . . It has enabled us to be more social and cooperative. It has become so truly an organ of the social body that by telephone we now enter ...

...r/his forum name. Underneath you'll find a list of all sections the reader has recorded for LibriVox. If you liked the reader, you may want to bookmark th * You'll get to a page displaying all the forum posts the reader has written. Click on the reader's name on the left; it's a link. ...

...of the project, please do not jump in and PL sections unless the DPL or BC has specifically asked for help with the PLing. ...m.librivox.org/viewforum.php?f=61 ProofListeners and Editors Wanted Forum] has a lot of information: [https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=17680 Lis ...

...with a synonym, there is no need to comment on it. If the reader, however, has substituted a word with something that means something different (or opposi ...me to do PL notes for the rest of the section, too. Chances are that s/he has uploaded an un-edited recording by mistake, or that s/he decides to re-reco ...

...unknown, the uploader will reject any MP3 produced by Adobe Audition which has ID tags. ##If you've already claimed a section and your Book Coordinator has asked you to post in the project thread, first post the link above in [http ...

Don't make a cover for a project that already has one. We cannot show more than one. ...s|wiki]]. Sometimes the original e-book (link on the catalog page) already has nice pictures. And of course you can google for pictures. Don’t forget to c ...

Anyone has something quicker ? ...hen you want to cut or when you want to paste) at samples where the signal has a zero value, and place the cursor (in case you want to paste) at another s ...

...erman, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. It also has an on-screen keyboard for input, and you can select the language of the on- ...oMt4oDSJjGi.b.Cf0HYkC The American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary] This site has audio pronunciations for a large number of Spanish words, alongside English ...

...un-tzu/ The Art of War] by Sun Tzu ''(1 hour, 12 mins)'' recorded in 2006, has been [http://www.archive.org/details/art_of_war_librivox downloaded over 40 ...

...to be true, but they may not be the whole truth. I'd encourage anyone who has more information to add it here.</div> Next, I like to select a section of the file that has some silence and some voice. We'll use this to experiment with to find the ...

The poster was a fun project in the forum. It has been designed so that you can print it out and post it at your '''local sch LibriVox has several Web site banners that you can choose from and download to help prom ...

LibriVox member ''peegee'' has written a script for web browsers which may make the BC's job of compiling ...

<i>ID3</i> = program is or has an ID3 tag editor. <br/> ...|| Y || || ||align="left"|<b>free</b> - similar to Twisted Wave, but also has Punch and Roll ...

...can choose '''File > Export to WAV'''. This will create a new file which has only one track. If you open this file in Audacity it would be easier to edi ...the above method is probably the easiest when first starting out, Audacity has the option to use the '''punch and roll''' method. This means that after yo ...

After this archive file has finished downloading to your PC, you'll need a tool to unzip it (which mean Not as elegant as using DownThemAll!, but if your library has a T1 line to the Internet and your other option is a phone modem at home, t ...

...tp://www.archive.org Archive.org] permanently. Each Internet Archive page has an audio player at the top for listening to the audio files (if your web b When turned back on, if your player has this feature, it will pick up ...

...ason (if you're away on holiday for a while, for instance, or if your life has just gotten too busy for this) it's NO problem at all, just let the BC (Boo *'''See PL Notes''' – proof listener has listened to the file and posted edits for the reader ...

...systems are provided by individual distributions. However the Beta version has not yet been packaged for very many distributions. The following distributi ...

...ct of listening to how strange your own voice sounds to you</u>. Everyone has felt this way the first few times they have heard themselves speak on a rec ...lly sound like, what were the manners of their speech? Nobody alive today has memory of them and precious few recordings (if any) survive. However, you ...

...and care packages to soldiers in need of support. Since then, Any Soldier has grown to include all branches of the military. Each zip has its own protocol. Most are the same, but double-check to see if there are s ...

...s - posts that are no longer needed ''may be deleted.'' If a post of yours has been deleted, it is most likely due to an admin cleaning and organizing thi ...m.php?f=1 Book Suggestions] - When someone decides to begin a project that has been suggested in this forum, the thread containing the suggestion of that ...

Mp3Splt has a GUI interface for Windows, but it seems to be able to * Now, in Command Prompt, go to the folder that has the audio book ...

Once Checker has finished processing, click the file name to see a report of any issues that ...

##*If this book has been translated from its original language follow the same procedure to ent ##**If the book has a lengthy preface or introduction that will be recorded separately from the ...

...in Window'''. If red vertical lines are showing, this means that the audio has reached a level of volume where your voice may be distorted. If this happen ...

'''Please note: This page has been transferred from the old Wiki and has not been updated since May 2009, so will not include recent recordings.''' ...are no auditions. There are standards, but no barriers. All this and more has made Librivox one of the (or, THE, according to some) most prolific produce ...

...hear the finished product before anyone else and finding how perfectly it has gone! There is no feeling that quite compares to it! And there is no job on ...

...After all, even a person who speaks 20 different languages fluently still has a lot of new words to learn! ....com/ Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online] This site is very easy to use and has audio pronunciations for thousands of words. If you use Mozilla Firefox, yo ...

...unknown, the uploader will reject any MP3 produced by Adobe Audition which has ID tags. ##If you've already claimed a section and your Book Coordinator has asked you to post in the project thread, first post the link above in [http ...

<b>Formatting Notes</b>: The CSS file has been modified to make formatting easier. ...

* Multiple versions: If you'd like to know whether a book has already been recorded (or is in progress), search the [LibriVox catalogue h ...

...s - posts that are no longer needed ''may be deleted.'' If a post of yours has been deleted, it is most likely due to an admin cleaning and organizing thi ...m.php?f=1 Book Suggestions] - When someone decides to begin a project that has been suggested in this forum, the thread containing the suggestion of that ...

...lection is if the silence before the selection isn't actually silence, but has a loud intake of breath. This is my chance to get rid of it. I grow the sel ...This habit I have developed of saving the project after every little edit has saved me a substantial amount of re-work, so I think it's well worth incorp ...

...o say thank you for the thank you! Unless the person who wrote the message has indicated that his/her email address is not to be given out, the admin on ' ...

...familiar with cassettes and possibly eight track cartridges. Magnetic tape has advantages and disadvantages against digital. * Even the best tape has inbuilt hiss. ...

In the current release of Audacity (2.4.1), the Compressor has the following dialog box. ...

Over time, a fairly standard template has developed, which is posted in the first thread of a new project. This is th ''I'm BCing a book that has no chapters, just continuous text, and can't get readers interested!'' ...

...ou can give. You are giving a little bit of yourself. No one else on earth has lived your life, and no one else on earth can communicate your experience. ...re it seemed like all I did was post encouragement to people ... "Everyone has a first recording, just get yours over and done with, it WILL be fine. I h ...

Highlight a section of your recording that has pure background noise. Be sure to not include any of your voice! Use a port ...

...can be slightly below the hips to help with breathing. However, one reader has reported that he likes to read in an armchair so he can rest the back of hi ...mouth and the microphone in just this way (though he uses two hands and so has a much larger distance than I use). ...

The Low Pass Filter has the advantage of being pre-installed in Audacity, but it doesn't have the s ...

board has a master volume control, which sets the volume level of the looks like Volume Control in that it has multiple channel, but it's ...

Don't make a cover for a project that already has one. We cannot show more than one cover. ...nly need to add the final running time, which your MC can send you once it has been calculated by the cataloguing software. ...

...one by placing your laptop behind the booth. This means that the fan noise has to reflect off the walls and ceiling before it can enter the microphone, gr ...unt holding another Samson C01U microphone. A small piece of acoustic foam has been wrapped around the microphone and held in place with string. This is v ...

...ils/librivoxaudio main page for LibriVox on archive.org], but this feature has been discontinued. However, the current staff picks are still announced in Let’s hope that this year will finally allow us to overcome the pandemic that has held the world hostage for 2 years now… Lift your spirits! ...

...mics''' is the one that most people don't understand, simply because there has never been a layman's equivalent, but honestly it's no more difficult than * 100 – 300 hertz is the bottom end of a voice, the bit that a big man has more of than a petite woman. This is the area you could call 'boom'. ...

# Optional: Record the date the reader has claimed the section in the Notes field - please use the word for the month ...he reader's forum username and catalog (display) name and a website if one has been provided. ...

If your project has a special PL request such that the listener needs to follow along with the *'''See PL Notes''' – proof listener has listened to the file and posted edits for the reader ...

...the volunteer-run'' [http://www.librivox.org/ Librivox.org] ''site, which has the lofty goal of recording "all books in the public domain." They aren't e The LibriVox project, which does not have an annual budget, has succeeded in placing more than 1,200 audio books on the Internet, including ...

...e further your mouth is from the microphone the more opportunity that mike has to pick up copies of your spoken words after they’ve bounced off a wall or ...ature doesn’t require readers to trade subtlety for projection. Each of us has an un-projected voice of intimacy. That’s the voice you use at 3 AM lying n ...

I'm thinking that the annivesary week has anniversary-theme events and a page linking to them ...

...rivox.org/viewforum.php?f=61 Proof Listeners or Editors Wanted] forum also has posts asking for help with editing. ...

...mplification is only needed to compensate the normal variations your voice has on different recording days. ...

N.B. If you have a noise-cancelling microphone, or the sound on your computer has a noise-cancelling or noise suppression option, please disable this functio ...se a whole chapter because the software crashes (possibly because the file has not been saved and is taking too much temporary memory) three paragraphs fr ...

...t shut. <br/> You also want to get rid of the green Grand Piano track that has been opened by default <br/> > go to <b>Track > Delete track</b> and it wil # You will see that a new track has been created. ...

Each work in progress has its own thread. Visit the [https://forum.librivox.org/viewforum.php?f=2 Rea ...

...rivox.org/viewforum.php?f=61 Proof Listeners or Editors Wanted] forum also has posts asking for help with editing. ...

alerting you that the system has been reconfigured. There is a ...

# Role-based: unless a user has a certain role, some data and pages are invisible to him/her. ...

...in. It is not installed with the main install for Audacity. This step only has to be done once, and then the plug-in will always be available in the Effec ...

Q: My track has the wrong sampling rate, and when I try to change it, my voice sounds funny ...

Equipment which records sound (from the air) and stores it in digital form has an analog to digital converter. Examples are the sound card on a computer ...mats (such as [[#MP3| MP3 ]] or Audible audiobook). The term "audio book" has been synonymous with "books on tape" for roughly 20 years. Cassette tape sa ...

...e]. In the list below the numbering of the books in the Great Ideas series has been kept. ...peal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe - This book has collected speeches and writings from 1915 to 1940 ...

Often, when a recording has been passed to someone else for checking, the result will be a list of erro ...

...tent that may cause LibriVox to be in breach of the law. '''Since LibriVox has no financial or legal resources, it is not in a position to become embroile ...

One LibriVox volunteer has used the program Total Recorder for years. ...

As of January 2007 LibriVox has a new database-driven catalog. Every project in the database can be found u ...

...re is a free and a paid version ($2.99 at this writing). The paid version has no ads and is far more versatile. ...

...recording your first section. And get your recording quickly!! This video has links to the videos you will need. ...ded as a guide''' to follow, just as an example of how one LV recorder (me)has learned to clean up a track to produce the file I ultimately upload. This ...

...cker]] program''': this requires Java to be installed on your computer. It has been reported that it does not work on the latest version of MacOS. ...

Snow Crash has to be one of the best books ever written. I absolutely LOVED it and will pr ...

...cally display the word count on the bottom status bar, unless this feature has been disabled. To re-enable it, right-click on the bottom status bar and ti ...

...s 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. ...

...terested, the first post will tell you more. Like on any other project, it has notes about the tech settings and it tells you a bit about the play. ...

# and check that Audacity has your mic selected: ...

The method of noise-cleaning has changed radically in version 2.1.0. For a technical explanation see [http:/ ...

[[Software We Use| Exact Audio Copy]] has an ID3 tag editor ...

...ils/librivoxaudio main page for LibriVox on archive.org], but this feature has been discontinued. However, the current staff picks are still announced in ...

| '''admins''': try to make sure everyone has what they need | Also note: '''Project Gutenberg''' has a 99% accuracy target for its texts. On a 20 minute audio recording that wo ...

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| '''admins''': try to make sure everyone has what they need | Also note: '''Project Gutenberg''' has a 99% accuracy target for its texts. On a 20 minute audio recording that wo ...

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| '''admins''': try to make sure everyone has what they need | Also note: '''Project Gutenberg''' has a 99% accuracy target for its texts. On a 20 minute audio recording that wo ...

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| '''admins''': try to make sure everyone has what they need | Also note: '''Project Gutenberg''' has a 99% accuracy target for its texts. On a 20 minute audio recording that wo ...

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''Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?'' by Bryce Walton (approx. 30 mins reading time) -- ...

...nth in the US, and together with the Black Lives Matter movement, LibriVox has risen to put out more books by African Americans. Delve into a truly black ...

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...a primer sección que ha pedido este lector, verá este mensaje "This reader has not previously been assigned a section. Someone may want to enter his/her c ...

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Ambleside Online has modernised versions of the original Charlotte Mason books on which the home ...

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and some of them may well be copyrighted (yes, Gutenberg has copyrighted works, and a right ...

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