[COMPLETE] The Story of Cairo by Stanley Lane-Poole - availle

Post by **Availle** » May 19th, 2021, 4:26 am

Thank you Sara.
Now I'm envious...

SaraHale · Post by **SaraHale** » May 19th, 2021, 12:23 pm

Availle wrote: ↑May 19th, 2021, 4:26 am Thank you Sara.
Now I'm envious...

You're most welcome.

Please don't be. You have done an AWESOME job with your recordings. I wouldn't have done it as well as you did.

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » July 14th, 2021, 2:01 pm

Can I take section 16?

Post by **Availle** » July 16th, 2021, 10:20 pm

HI there, sorry for the late reply...

Section 16 is all yours! Enjoy!

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » July 19th, 2021, 1:57 pm

Hey Guys,

Sorry about this, but I've got a lot of things to do right now, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to do my section for this. Could you drop me from this project?

Post by **Availle** » July 19th, 2021, 3:16 pm

Sure, no big deal. Thanks for letting me know!

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » August 9th, 2021, 12:07 pm

Hi, I'm back. Sorry I had to leave this project. (College app season is rough.) I felt really bad about leaving this project, but the apps went smoother than I thought they would (I'm pretty much done with the lot of them) and I have more free time than I thought I would. I can take back section 16 and I can do 13 as well.

Could somebody please give me a short listing of how to say the Arabic?

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » August 11th, 2021, 1:39 pm

I just got section 13 recorded. Figured I'd get a head-start. I'll have it in by the end of the week. I'll do the recording for section 16 as well.

If I submit the files and they're not PL OK by the 20th I'll need to resign the post again. School starts back for me on the 23rd and I've got a heavy schedule.

SaraHale · Post by **SaraHale** » August 11th, 2021, 7:36 pm

Lector1 wrote: ↑August 9th, 2021, 12:07 pm Could somebody please give me a short listing of how to say the Arabic?

Hi,

Here are some useful links for you

Arabic Dictionary Online: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/arabic_dictionary.htm
Egyptian Arabic Dictionary: https://eu.lisaanmasry.org/online/dictionary.php
For Names: https://www.pronouncenames.com/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

SaraHale · Post by **SaraHale** » August 11th, 2021, 7:38 pm

Lector1 wrote: ↑August 11th, 2021, 1:39 pm I just got section 13 recorded. Figured I'd get a head-start. I'll have it in by the end of the week. I'll do the recording for section 16 as well.

If I submit the files and they're not PL OK by the 20th I'll need to resign the post again. School starts back for me on the 23rd and I've got a heavy schedule.

I'll do my best to PL them right away or before the 20th.

Post by **Availle** » August 12th, 2021, 6:55 am

Thank you Sara!

Lector1 wrote: ↑August 11th, 2021, 1:39 pm I just got section 13 recorded. Figured I'd get a head-start. I'll have it in by the end of the week. I'll do the recording for section 16 as well.

If I submit the files and they're not PL OK by the 20th I'll need to resign the post again. School starts back for me on the 23rd and I've got a heavy schedule.

Welcome back!

In the future, please do wait until I get back to you about your claims. I know there's not much going on in this project, but it's good to get in the right habits.

Since you're on such a tight schedule, I would suggest you focus on section 13 for now and wait until you get your PL OK before you claim any more of this project (why not go on with the same chapter, btw?) This way you can make sure that you have at least one fully completed section in the catalog.

In general, we are all volunteers here, you, me, the DPL... While you can obviously control your own schedule, let's not impose your deadlines on others, okay? It seems that in this project, the pronunciation of the Arabic terms is a bit tricky, so it may be a bit much to hope for a straight PL OK.

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » August 13th, 2021, 9:24 am

*rubs head and smiles sheepishly* Sorry. My bad. I wasn't trying to impose a deadline on anyone. I was just giving a heads-up that I may need to be taken off the project again.

Lector1 · Post by **Lector1** » August 13th, 2021, 12:11 pm

Here's section 13, at 24:04!

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcairo_13_lanepoole_128kb.mp3

Post by **Availle** » August 14th, 2021, 5:03 pm

Thank you very much!

SaraHale · Post by **SaraHale** » August 17th, 2021, 11:31 am

Hey, Lector1!

First, I'd like to thank you for recording a section about Cairo. You did well.

I have a few PL notes.

@20:30 - "When he" is repeated.

@22:11 - Motor sound. Could you please re-record that part?

The following are extra since you'll be editing the above. I thought of mentioning those at the same time.

If you use Audacity, please go to View > Show Clipping (on/off) when you click on it. You will find red marks. This affects the audio quality when they appear.

What I usually do, I select the whole track then use the compressor effect. It evens out the volume level of the recording. After that, I use a plugin called Replay Gain to get the LibriVox's volume.

Here are some tutorial's from Phil on how to apply those effects
https://youtu.be/-fKYYj6HMZU
https://youtu.be/b9Uz900RNos

One last thing, have you done noise-reduction to the recording? I see that the background noise peaks at -36 at the end of silence.

Again, you did a good job with the recording. And I look forward to your next section.