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Please forgive my recent non-responsiveness. My wife died unexpectedly not long before our 43rd anniversary. So, the world stopped turning for a while. I'm getting going again, step by painful step, and I hope to complete my assignments soon. Thanks for understanding.

I spoke in a sing-song voice that cracked a lot. I thought it gave it some character -- but I don't want distortion for technical reasons. I have a sibilant S, which I filtered out with judicious use of the Low Pass Filter -- which may have made the clarity sound a little slushy in places. Let me tr...

Hi! http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/al/sirthomasmore_prologue__4.1.mp3 I really enjoyed doing this one. No Brazilian Portuguese. Also, it's not often that I get introduced by a trumpet fanfare. But, Hey, it's in the script ... so I put it in the recording. Please let me know if the recordin...

--- Thanks, David. GEORGE BETTS & The Prologue 4.1 -- gladly accepted. Please allow me to go off-topic to invite you (and others in the forum) to enjoy a couple of my parodies. Here's "Shakespeare's Piglet" : http://drspeedbump.com/piglet.html and MOBY [MD, stage version with 67 words...

Greetings! I believe I worked with you a while back on Verne’s “Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon”. I did 19-1, “Ancient History”. I would be delighted to read the P rologue in 4.1 of “Sir Thomas More”. Also, if it’s P ermissible, I could do the few lines for George Bett. If I may only do one or t...

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/pw/800Leagues_1-19_verne.mp3


Paul ~ please let me know if it's OK. If not, I'll keep trying.

Dr Speedbump

Ugh !
At 128kps, my 12-minute MP3 is too large (11Mb) to be uploaded to my website -- so says my server. It does seem rather large.
What did I do wrong?

For pronunciation guidance: I found this web site:
http://www.deltatranslator.com/delta/pronounce.htm

I also found somebody from Rio de Janeiro.
Now, if I could only remember what I learned...

Thanks Scott.
I'll try what you suggested and post a recording of Chapter 19 on DrSpeedbump.com very soon.
Vince

Hi Scott ~ I'm not at all pleased with the quality of the recording that I'm making. Here are two 30-second test MP3 files: 1 -- no attempt at noise reduction http://www.DrSpeedbump.com/LibriVox/LibriTest803RAW.mp3 2 -- the best I've been able to to with all sorts of Audacious manipulation. http://w...

Preferences are already set at 44100kHz & 32-bit float.
Still, MP3 is produced at only 16kbps. It's a puzzlement.
Maybe my Lame is lame.
Lamenting,
Vince

Please tell me how to set Audacity to record at 128kbps.
My test MP3 files are coming out 16kbps and it sounds like I'm talking in a sewer pipe. Thanks !

Hi Scott ! Pseudoynm is Dr Speedbump. Web site is [url]http://www.DrSpeedbump.com[/url] I will definitely send you a sample as soon as get rid of the godawful hum that I'm getting from my mic (Optimus unidirectional) through Audacity (which for some strange reason must be set to input, rather than m...

I'd like to read Section 19.