wow what a story and thank you for such a fast turn-around. You have narrated the whole story very beautifully, I loved to listen to your quiet voice.
Really nice, and I hope to hear more from you in other projects along the road. Your accent for the French words was perfect, are you French by any chance ? If yes, you would be more than welcome in our French language group projects.
A few things need tweaking still, before it can be marked ok. Nothing difficult, it's actually mostly
lengthy silences especially in the first half of the story. Anything over two seconds feels very long, I always recommend
not exceeding 1.5, which is usually fully enough, even between paragraphs. I noted down the spots I found too long, could you cut the silence there a bit, to make it all sound a bit more fluent ?
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at the beginning we recommend
between 0.5 and 1 second maximum of silence, anything more than that feels long to start the recording. You have over 3 seconds
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from 0:33 to 0:35: between the title and the start of the story
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from 1:17 to 1:19: between "finest and richest" and "the beauties"
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from 3:40 to 3:42: between "the work before them" and "though idolized"
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from 4:03 to 4:05: between "transcriber of bibles" and "in making this request"
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from 4:38 to 4:41: between "to work upon" and "Gaspard Hautz"
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from 4:57 to 5:00: between "gentleman of fortune" and "with his handsome person"
Then there are two technical settings that need to get adjusted:
> the
bitrate needs to be
128kbps constant (yours is variable)
> the
volume is too low (only 80 dB – we accept between 86 and 92). You need to
amplify the whole file with +9 to get into the perfect average of 89 dB
I recommend downloading the checker programme, it will check the volume and technical settings of your finished mp3 file and tell you what needs correcting:
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Checker
> finally please correct the
filename, since we have over 10 sections in this project, there has to be a
leading 0 in the section number:
rover0125_05_various_128kb
Thank you
Sonia