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WanderingWalker wrote: May 12th, 2021, 1:43 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_13_bailey_128kb.mp3
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WW
hope intro long enough now :)
Intro now .8 seconds!!! Perfect!!! Chapter 13 is now PLOK :thumbs:

Looking forward to more.

Wayne
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awonski wrote: May 6th, 2021, 7:20 pm Hi! I have my sections recorded - I just need to edit through them. My finals got pushed to this week, so is it okay if I upload everything by the 11th? If not, I'll try to edit through tonight and upload them.
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Hi. How are you coming on editing those sections?
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Sections 9 and 10 have been put back into the pool for anyone to claim! :D
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philchenevert wrote: May 20th, 2021, 6:06 pm Sections 9 and 10 have been put back into the pool for anyone to claim! :D
Phil,

Would it be OK if I recorded 9 and 10, and maybe you or someone could PL them for me?

Thanks,

Wayne
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Kalamareader wrote: May 21st, 2021, 3:50 pm
philchenevert wrote: May 20th, 2021, 6:06 pm Sections 9 and 10 have been put back into the pool for anyone to claim! :D
Phil,

Would it be OK if I recorded 9 and 10, and maybe you or someone could PL them for me?

Thanks,

Wayne
Sure. You do 9 and 10 and I will PL them. :thumbs:
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philchenevert wrote: May 21st, 2021, 4:20 pm Sure. You do 9 and 10 and I will PL them. :thumbs:
Thanks Phil,

They are in the MW.

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Chapter 9 and 10 PL OK! Nice :D
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Great. :clap: Petunia the Perky LibriVox Penguin(a volunteer)Imagewill put these into the Magic Window for proof listening.
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Ally,

Wow, I really loved your reading, especially the characterization of the Deer Mouse. It was so cute, and I loved the slight touch of an English accent here and there. Really give him (her) some 'class'.

There were a few things we should look at:

In each of the chapters, the ending silence needs to be lengthened to five seconds.

Chapter 21:

4:01.5 and started to dig a different hole a short distance from the first one. I really thought about this one, whether I should mention it or not, but I will, and it is your call, as it really doesn't change the meaning. You added 'away' between distance and from. Your call.

You have a 'background' noise level of about 47. The limit for LV standards is 40 and the goal is between 25 and 35. I tried doing a Noise Reduction by selecting one of your 'breath sounds', such as at about 1:31.75. That took the background level to about 35. It also took your volume level from 92, which is the absolute upper limit for LV down to 91.5. As you may know, the goal for volume has been set at 89 dB with a range from 86-92.

I found the numbers for your recording using the Checker program. It was written specifically for LV. It is a great tool. If your are not familiar with it, you can investigate it here: https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Checker

The above information about 'Noise Reduction' pertains to Audacity. If you are using another program, others will have to help you.

Chapter 22 The only problem with this was the shortness of the ending silence.

Chapter 23:

Your beginning silence was a little longer than the .5-1 second standards for LV.

2:19.5 You go ahead of me, and I'll follow you, You said you

4:29.5 and if he had found the people in the neighborhood as pleasant as he had expected. A stumble over neighborhood

At the end of the book, you need to say “End of Chapter 23” before the line about the end of the book. In the original post, it is easy to miss the instruction to say both.

The volume was a little low at 84.2. You might check to see of the volume for the input from your mic is consistent.

When you listen to this again, you might notice places where there are some places where the pauses between lines might be shortened some. Just a thought.

Over all a good job. Keep up the good work.

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Wayne. It appears that ferostorga99 will not make the edits on section 8 since he has not been on the forums for several months. Please see if you can fix the things like noise and volume and silences with this section. If you can fix any of the missing words that would be great but not necessary. None really affect the meaning of the text too much. Let me know how you feel about this. Thanks.
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philchenevert wrote: June 5th, 2021, 12:27 am Wayne. It appears that ferostorga99 will not make the edits on section 8 since he has not been on the forums for several months. Please see if you can fix the things like noise and volume and silences with this section. If you can fix any of the missing words that would be great but not necessary. None really affect the meaning of the text too much. Let me know how you feel about this. Thanks.
Phil,

I agree. I did some work on 8 and I think if well passes now. Noise down to just over 25, was able to cut a couple of things that did change the meaning some, but now good enough for plok. I put it in the MW.

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Phil,
I agree. I did some work on 8 and I think if well passes now. Noise down to just over 25, was able to cut a couple of things that did change the meaning some, but now good enough for plok. I put it in the MW.
Wayne
I suspected that your editing skills were well honed and capable. Thanks.
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Hi Wayne - thank you so much for your kindness and for your great listening and help! The Checker app is so helpful, thank you so much for mentioning - somehow I didn't know about it before and it really helps.
Here's the edits!
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_21_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 4:50
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_22_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 3:36
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_23_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 5:32
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awonski wrote: June 5th, 2021, 11:50 pm Hi Wayne - thank you so much for your kindness and for your great listening and help! The Checker app is so helpful, thank you so much for mentioning - somehow I didn't know about it before and it really helps.
Here's the edits!
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_21_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 4:50
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_22_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 3:36
https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/taleofbennybadger_23_bailey_128kb.mp3
Length: 5:32
Ally
Ally,

First of all, thank you for all your efforts. You do such a great job of reading this story and we all want everyone to get the best experience from your work, so there are still a couple of things that we need to work on to get it great.

21: Your noise level is still a little over 41. I took a 'snippet' of noise at about 2:05.5 and used that as the Noise Reduction Profile, and the selected the whole reading and then the numbers come out at 28. Your volume, as it is now, was 91.9, one the upper limits of standards, but by running the aforementioned Noise Reduction, it brought it down to 91.4. Still on the high end, but better. To help with the volume, go into Audacity and 'select' the entire reading, either by using Control "A" or the 'select' button at the bottom of the graph on Audacity. Then go to Effect and choose Amplify. A box with come up with two boxes with numbers in them. The top one will be highlighted in blue. To drop your volume, just enter "-" and then the number of decibels you want to decrease your recording. In your case, enter "-2.5" and then hit "OK". That should decrease the volume of your recording to very close to 89.
Another tool that I have found very useful is mp3Gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php and choose the top option). It will help you with getting the volume correct after you first save it as an mp3 file.

22: You kind of over corrected on the ending silence. It is now 7.5 seconds, a little over the five second goal. Maybe you can fix that.

23: Your beginning silence is still well over one second. I know this doesn't sound like much, half a second, but in the 'recording business' that really is a long time (relatively speaking).

Your ending time is about 3.5 seconds, which is a little shorter than the five seconds LV likes to have. The reason for that is that when someone downloads the book, and listens to your recording, sometimes there are little glitches and the beginning and ending times are there to make sure they get to hear all of your great recording without missing anything.

One other thing. One of the hardest things to do is to add or correct words after they have been submitted and have to be corrected. As I listened to your corrections, there are a couple of suggestions. Before recording it, listen to the surrounding lines and listen to what they sound like. Then record and insert those lines and then listen again to see if the 'mesh' pretty well. I know I often have to try it a couple of times, and then mess with the 'Amplify' (as noted above) to get them about the same volume. Also, it is hard to get the quality of the sound the same. In yours, it sounds like you were a lot close to the mic on the corrections than you were on the original recording. That is one advantage to listening to the corrections after you have done them and you can hear what you can do to make them even better.

Ally, DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED!!! We ALL have been through this, but like anything worthwhile that we try, there is a time of learning and improving and eventually we all get to the time when we are really having fun and enjoying what we are doing with out so much angst.

Wayne

P.S Sorry I missed these yesterday. (I was gone Sunday and Monday)
Wayne
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