[COMPLETE][Magazine][Short Stories]The Rover Vol. 01 No. 25 - kit

[Kitty]

Hi, here is section 4 - length - 19:1.60
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_04_various_128kb.mp3

awww what a romantic story. I was rooting for Albert as well through the plot. Me love a happy ending.

Wonderfully narrated, Gini, thank you so much.

Only one small detail to be added before it's perfect:

> at 0:25: you forgot to repeat the section number here before the title: "Section 4. The broken miniature"

thanks

Sonia

[Kitty]

Here is Section 3 with requested edits:

and thank you, Greg, perfect edits PL ok now

Sonia

[GregGiordano]

Here is Section 3 with requested edits:

and thank you, Greg, perfect edits PL ok now

Sonia

[Theginmann]

Here is the revised section 4... length - 19:2.33

https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_04_various_128kb.mp3

Thanks, Gini

[Kitty]

Here is the revised section 4... length - 19:2.33
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_04_various_128kb.mp3

thank you, Gini, now definitely PL ok

see you along the road...

Sonia

[littlemissclumsy]

hello,
here's my recording of section 5 . I hope it's OK
running time 19 min 54

https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_5_various_128kb.mp3

[Kitty]

here's my recording of section 5 . I hope it's OK
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_5_various_128kb.mp3

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 ?

> 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
> from 0:33 to 0:35: between the title and the start of the story
> from 1:17 to 1:19: between "finest and richest" and "the beauties"
> from 3:40 to 3:42: between "the work before them" and "though idolized"
> from 4:03 to 4:05: between "transcriber of bibles" and "in making this request"
> from 4:38 to 4:41: between "to work upon" and "Gaspard Hautz"
> 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

[littlemissclumsy]

hello Sonia,
many thanks for the feedback.
I made all the corrections on my file and hope it's ok now
I'm not exactly a tech expert but your detailed advice made things easier for me
I am indeed French but I sooo love the English language ! (I know my accent is far from perfect;-)
but I've been listening to audio books on librivox for so long that I finally decided it was time for me to give back and start volunteering.
I may try a French Project one of these days.
so here's my file , let me know if there still are some defects
running time is now 19 min38
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_05_various_128kb.mp3

bye for now
Muriel

[Kitty]

I made all the corrections on my file and hope it's ok now
I'm not exactly a tech expert but your detailed advice made things easier for me

yes, you will learn by doing with time. You should have heard my first attempts here and in all these years I think it has become easier and better

Your section is now perfectly PL ok

I am indeed French but I sooo love the English language ! (I know my accent is far from perfect;-)

oh I think your English is really perfect and you are easy to understand and the slight French accent that can be detected underneath still makes it to me so much more endearing. I loved to listen to it.

I may try a French Project one of these days.

well you are more than welcome We have a few projects running at the moment which you can check out in the "Languages other than English" subforum.

But I will also be happy if I hear you in another Rover one day again. The next issue is already up and running, in case you want to have a look.

Have a good weekend. BTW I live in Luxembourg, so we are basically neighbours. (Well, not it you live in the South of France of course )

Only waiting for one more section here and then we can catalogue

Sonia

[littlemissclumsy]

hey Sonia,
thanks for your kind message ..
we are neighbours indeed because I live right next to the luxembourg border near Thionville .... such a small world after all
Muriel

[Kitty]

we are neighbours indeed because I live right next to the luxembourg border near Thionville .... such a small world after all

indeed ! Thionville is only about half an hour away and we used to drive there sometimes just to eat at the KFC right next to the highway we don't have KFC in Luxembourg, Thionville is the closest

Sonia

[JaniceCanada]

Hello! I have uploaded for your review process Section 8: Isolated Affection

https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_08_various_128kbps.mp3 (7:45)

Kitty: If it's possible, I would appreciate having my reader name changed from JaniceCanada to my real name: Janice McNally

Thank you!

[Kitty]

Hello! I have uploaded for your review process Section 8: Isolated Affection
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0125_08_various_128kbps.mp3 (7:45)

thank you, Janice, for making this a priority, since it was the last section we were waiting for. And oh, what a lovely narrative you did I really enjoyed your pace, expression and diction, the way you gave the characters a voice in the dialogue. Technical settings all accurate too, text even word-perfect. Wonderful, this is absolutely PL ok, no doubt about it.

Congrats on your first official LV recording and hopefully many more to come. It sounds like you enjoyed it at least.

Only one small note, concerning the file name: you wrote 128kbps, it should only be 128kb (see first post). I always recommend simply copy/pasting the example from the first post and changing the ## to the correct section number, that way you evade typos in the file name.

But no need to reupload, since there were no other errors, I quickly corrected the name in my folder. So all is well now and we are ready for the catalogue. I will post the link once it's done.

Kitty: If it's possible, I would appreciate having my reader name changed from JaniceCanada to my real name: Janice McNally

sure no problem, here is the changed reader page: https://librivox.org/reader/16730

We've arrived at the end of yet another Rover, so as always, a big thank you to all the enthusiastic readers of this one:

Alan, Gini, Greg, Muriel, Jim and Janice !!!

Sonia

[Kitty]

and it's in the box

This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project https://librivox.org/rover-01-25-by-various/

Moving to Completed....

Sonia

[JaniceCanada]

Thank you, Sonia, for your very gracious and encouraging feedback. Yes, I did enjoy myself! I now look forward to listening to the entire Rover Magazine. I have noted the correct filename protocol - tnx. One quick question... I'm wondering what "PL" in PL ok stands for.

Have a lovely day,
Janice