LibriVox Forum

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that a free corpus of around 1000 hours of speech, based on LibriVox's recordings, is now available at http://www.openslr.org/12/. It's a bit like VoxForge, but about an order of magnitude larger, and (IMHO) more polished(for the gory details you can see th...

Hi, here is a list of few more chapters, with incorrect reader info (this is the last batch, I promise :) ): Reader: Andy , chapter: "Ilia Muromec of Russia", project: Myths and Legends of All Nations Reader: Peter Kelleher , chapter: "3.19: Why So Many Ambitious Men and So Little Lof...

Hi, I noticed a few chapters, for which I think the reader information is incorrect: Reader: Igor Teaforay , chapter: "What Was It? by Fitz-James O-Brien", project: Famous Modern Ghost Stories Reader: Janice , chapter: "Part 8", project: Life of Samuel Johnson Vol. I Reader: Luis...

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I believe the reader for chapter 63, which is missing both on the page(https://librivox.org/the-junior-classics-volume-8-animal-and-nature-stories-by-william-patten/) and in the data exported through LV's API is Gabriela Cowan (ID 7433).

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I believe that the lengths of the chapters are off by a factor of 60 - i.e. the number of minutes is listed as number of hours (https://librivox.org/the-age-of-reason-by-thomas-paine/).

One idea is to use key words like 'collection', 'stories' in the title. But this is not perfect. Does somebody have a better idea? Well, I'm still familiarizing myself with LibriVox, but maybe you can add a "collection" genre tag? I believe there are other not-quite-genres, like "dra...

No, I don't know. Only 'will be open sourced' is announced. The date is still not given. Thank you Masa san! Unfortunately, judging from the other answers this may not happen anytime soon, so I guess we will have to work around the current semi-broken implementation of the API. The following is my ...

Free working database software would be handy for many volunteer projects Indeed, if another project needs a web application for managing some sort of categorized items, they may at least in theory take LibriVox's code and use it as a base of their own website. And of course going open source may b...

Perhaps we need to consider turning off the dev server API? In my opinion, at least the URLs at https://dev.librivox.org/public/temp_info/api should be changed to point to the official server, because 3 out of the top 4 results on Google for "librivox api" lead to that page(the first post...

By the way, it seems the database used by dev.librivox.org is different from the one used by librivox.org. Compare the 'genres' info returned by https://dev.librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks/?offset=0&limit=1&extended=1 : <genres> <genre> <id>4</id> <name>Classics (Antiquity)</name> </genre> ...