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Congrats all around!

Kristingj wrote: ↑March 4th, 2019, 4:53 am Doctor D'avrigny
All chapters are PL OK, I'm just missing a "both" line in chapter 103, "He is mad!"

Recorded as a pickup at https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_103_pu01.flac (00:22).

I've now done a couple of dramatic readings and thought I'd report back. I've found that I need to read the text *around* my own lines -- that is, a little before, and the bits between lines if two of mine are fairly close. Doing so has given me insight that's changed the performance. In The Count o...

Carolin wrote: ↑November 11th, 2018, 11:46 pm You can always check if a claim went through properly by checking the magic window. If you see your name you are all set

Ah, good point!

Chapter 16 is done.
URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/romanceofplantlife_16_scottelliot_128kb.mp3
Length: 26:53

Enjoy!

Carolin wrote: ↑November 11th, 2018, 1:46 am Thank you

Was this intended for me? Are you O.K.ing my claim?

Read about this project in the "Orphans" forum. I'll take the last open chapter, "Chapter XVI - On Flowers of the Water". (Awaiting your O.K..)

The remaining five chapters of Doctor D'Avrigny's text has been uploaded: Chapter 80; https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_80.flac; 08:35 Chapter 94; https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_94.flac; 03:41 Chapter 102; https://librivox.org/uploads/...

Here's Doctor D'Avrigny, Chapter 79. https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_79.flac Length: 5:18 I'd just settled in for a long evening's recording when construction started again outside my apartment. Bless the Dutch for their excellent infrastructure; damn them for mainta...

Here are Doctor D'Avrigny, Chapters 72 and 73. I'll await checking before I continue. https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_72.flac https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/montecristo_davrigny_73.flac By the way: I pronounced "brucine" to rhyme with "sce...

I just started recording, but the checker rejects .flac files. Is there a reason you want them as .flac rather than .mp3 or some other Checker-friendly format?

Would too much advance information possibly lead a narrator to give something away that the reader isn't even supposed to know yet? A fair concern! That's why Creator/Producer Larry Gelbart didn't tell the cast of M*A*S*H (except Alan Alda) that they were killing off Colonel Blake until just before...

Thanks again, all. For "Monte Cristo" I pre-read only my own lines, and the bits leading into them. For now, that's what I'll continue to do, although maybe in the future I'll feel more comfortable just plowing ahead. But from just that, I could get a sense of my character's motivations an...

P.S. I've decided to take on Doctor D'avrigny in The Count of Monte Cristo. He's fairly minor, though. I wonder about possibly taking bigger characters without knowing the work better.

I'll take Doctor D'avrigny.

That analogy does not work for me. You don't need to listen to audiobooks to be able to produce them, and if you have to strain yourself and it's not fun for you to read (you do read to make an audiobook, yes?) At base, I enjoy the sound of my own voice. :) Reading aloud is more interesting to me t...