Hello, Alondra! That was a lovely reading!Alondra wrote:Hi,
I am attaching Section 1 The Bluebird including the poem, I was lucky with this one, a smooth read.
If you accept it that would be great, if not good enough, feedback would be appreciated, fun to read. 22 minutes
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/birdstories_s1_burroughs_128kb.mp3
If it is accepted I will start the next one.
There was no problem with the text itself. Only, at 19:50, I'd like you to add the title of the poem too ("The Bluebird") before you read out the poem. And decrease a few seconds of the silence there.
Just a couple of technical things to remember, though:
- •The volume of the file is too low at 83 db. The ideal range for our recordings is from 89 - 91 db. To increase the volume, you can go to Audacity, select your whole track, and go to 'Amplify' from the 'Effects' column. For better and clearer instructions on this, visit this wiki page.
You can use the Librivox Checker next time - to check volume, before uploading, to make sure.
•At 20:57, there was a little bit of some background noise. It's nothing we can't manage this time; but For next time, you could try to wait till the background noise stops and start recording again.
•The file name should be birdstories_01_burroughs_128kb - the section is always a 2 digit number. We can change that during cataloguing, so don't worry about it.
•At the end, when you close the recording, you do not need to add the title of the book "Bird Stories from Burroughs" - that's only for the last section of this project. You can stop at "Read by Sandra."
And you can most definitely go ahead with recording your other sections too!
You did great. All the best!