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annise wrote: ↑

Today, 4:12 am

And from what I have seen of paid readers with an engineer, it doesn't finish up much quicker

That's because the engineers are getting paid by the hour.

Hmmmmm.... My only other guess would be your laptop power supply. Not the power brick but the internal voltage converters. They can do funny things like that. Have you tried the laptop's built in mic?

What kind of "Logitech mic" are you using? If it's a noise cancelling gaming headset, then that's probably the issue. I'm guessing it doesn't play well with the juke adapter either.

Provided everything is on a single track, which it should be, this is the best thing to use:

https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Level_Speech

Just to add my two cents on punch and roll. Be careful where you place the play head to start recording. As you listen to the previous 5 seconds, your natural rhythm will kick in and you'll start reading again when the timing feels right. If the play head is too far into the gap, you may start readi...

I'm guessing he either used a gate or manually brought the bad bits down to flatline cause he did cut off the very ends of a few words. And there are some really strange noises in the quiet bits.

Normalize to -3 dB. That will usually get you in the ballpark unless your audio has a lot of spikes holding the rest of it down.

What are you doing to it in Audacity? It sounds over processed and gated.

It's a noise cancelling gaming headset. That's most likely what is cutting the voice out and the main reason why you shouldn't use headset mics for Librivox.

Video editors eat resources. So using a laptop, unless it is a really good gaming type, is always going to be tedious. Lots of memory is good but it's the GPU that will make or break video. Most PC laptops don't have a lot of graphics horsepower. I use Premiere Pro CC on my desktop but wouldn't thin...

There is no noise. There are no breaths. The pacing is too precise. It's a computer generated voice that, for some reason, has been pitch shifted. I believe Librivox does specify that the reader must be human.

Wow, there are all kinds of problems. You have a good voice. Your file passes the Checker program. Your equipment is way too good. You used a proper audio editing program. You nailed the text of the one minute test. There is no background hiss or hum. There is no reverb or room tone. There is no TV,...

Hmmmm... Let's see. You could always play with EQ until you're happy but that's just a band aid fix you may have to mess with every time. You should always fix the problem, not the symptom. Next up would be the mic itself. That particular mic may not be suited for your voice. But it can get expensiv...

In Checker, select Validation / Choose Validation Methods / and check Background Noise. It no longer passes. Some think this is kind of a strict bit of criteria but it's more objective than our different ears that hear different things.

Tricia,

He did say he was "a bit of a perfectionist" so I just wanted to steer him in the right direction.