[COMPLETE] The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series Of Mythological Fables by Francis Bacon - tg

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 21st, 2018, 2:11 pm

Section 6

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/wisdomoftheancients_06_bacon_128kb.mp3

4:00

Craig

Post by **craigdav1** » May 21st, 2018, 2:39 pm

6-7 PL OK.

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 21st, 2018, 7:41 pm

So section 30 is all ready to go. The only thing is that there are all these little vocal clicks and mouth sounds during the silent parts. What filter can I use in Audacity to fix some of that? This recording was worse with the vocal clicks than the other tracks. Thanks so much!
Allie

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 22nd, 2018, 2:34 am

Hi Allie

- generally you expand your audio using the + sign and look for spikes or your puffs - select what you want to remove and press delete. Then listen again and see if it's how you want it to be. If not click undo and try again.

The video below shows how to remove clicks and breaths using click removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsP-XiyYhbU

Here is another video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfT1FeNgHxU

Librivox has an Audacity tutorial that will also help you.
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Audacity_Tutorials

Craig

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 22nd, 2018, 2:34 am

Hi Allie

- generally you expand your audio using the + sign and look for spikes or your puffs - select what you want to remove and press delete. Then listen again and see if it's how you want it to be. If not click undo and try again.

The video below shows how to remove clicks and breaths using click removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsP-XiyYhbU

Here is another video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfT1FeNgHxU

Librivox has an Audacity tutorial that will also help you.
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Audacity_Tutorials

Craig

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 22nd, 2018, 8:25 am

Thanks a bunch Craig

) mainly my issue was trying to create "clean" silences. I didnt have enough quiet pauses to put clean silence where I want it.

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 22nd, 2018, 10:33 am

I always let record play for about 10 seconds at the end for my clean silence.

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 23rd, 2018, 4:50 pm

BOOM! Toasted!
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/wisdomoftheancients_30_bacon_128kb.mp3
8:51

Sorry for the huuuuuge delay

Hopefully it's PL ok. Spent wayyyyyy too long individually clipping gross mouth sounds out of the silences. Read the tutorial on the wiki after about I did all that work on my recording how to use a tool to turn each clip to perfect silence

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 23rd, 2018, 5:21 pm

Very nicely read Allie

The sound was good and the silence was also good.

The reading was perfect except for the pronunciation of ether.
ēTHər
you pronounced the first e with a short e when it should have a long e.

5:15 and following two uses of the word in close proximity.

ether as Bacon was thinking about it.
A classical physical element, considered as prevalent in the heavens and inaccessible to humans. In some versions of alchemy, this was the fifth element in addition to air, earth, fire and water.

Craig

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 23rd, 2018, 5:39 pm

Hey Craig, awesome!!! Holy crap! You sure do know your classics! I knew what he meant I just didn't know that it was pronounced differently than the modern definition of ether. Will fix.

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 23rd, 2018, 6:43 pm

Fix'd
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/wisdomoftheancients_30_bacon_128kb.mp3
8:52

Phew! Hopefully the pronounciation changes of "ether" don't sound too wonky and "cut and paste".
OCD much? :///

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 23rd, 2018, 7:02 pm

The corrections sound good Allie. PLOK

Thanks for helping out on this project

Craig

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 23rd, 2018, 7:44 pm

HORRAY :DDDDD The preface is all recorded and headed now to editing mode. I sincerely hope I read slow enough. I could read slower but I think it would be much harder to convey the meaning. You'll have to let me know what you think. I understood everything I was reading. I just think it would be realllly challenging to slow it down and still read for understanding.

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 23rd, 2018, 7:53 pm

Hi Allie.

I sincerely hope I read slow enough.

I heard every word enunciated very plainly and easy to understand and keep up with. Thanks for all your hard work. This project might soon be ready for listeners

Craig

Eidyiaa · Post by **Eidyiaa** » May 23rd, 2018, 7:57 pm

hahahaha! the joy of homographs! I meant read as in "I will read in the future." I'm afraid I read the preface too fast. I suppose I can add pauses in but it would be a lot of painstaking work. I just think the take I did was really good but it was definitely fast. Of course as a new reader, I pick the hard stuff

Editing now.