Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Humor; Humorous Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: parody, etiquette, guide
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises, by Donald Ogden Stewart. Chapter [number, title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of Chapter [number]"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises, by Donald Ogden Stewart. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
Example filename perfectbehavior_##_stewart_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. perfectbehavior_01_stewart_128kb.mp3)
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
As a soloist, you will be your own BC for this project and will need to complete the MW and then post your links and times there as you go along.
You get to the MW by clicking the BC Admin link right below the MW. Use your forum name as the login. The first time you will need to click the "forgot password" button to get a password assigned.
How should I handle the image captions? Should I say "image caption" before reading the caption? And should I do it at the point in the text where they are in the html file or at the end of the section?
Reading the captions is optional - I've listened to a lot of LV books and don't recall ever hearing anyone read captions, so you can feel free to leave them out. I took a quick look, and while they are funny along with the pictures, I'm not sure they add much to someone who is listening and not looking at the pictures.
I recorded the first section using Audacity, but for some reason it came out the other side all kinda chopped into bits in an odd way - so for example, I would start one sentence and it would switch in the middle to another sentence a couple lines in the text later. In other words, I'm going to have to re-record, which I will do at some point in the next fortnight.
Have you heard of any similar cases where this has happened?
May I ask, did you have other programs running at the same time? Audacity uses quite a bit of memory.
I did have a problem once when my virus scan software decided to scan my computer while I was recording . . . that time Audacity sort of froze, and when I played it back, the recording skipped a few seconds when the computer couldn't handle the demands on memory. Then it picked up again. That sort of sounds like what you experienced. I shut off the automatic virus scan so it can't run while I am recording, and I make a point to have nothing else running (except I do leave my web browser open) when I record and I have not had that problem since.
I have recorded chapter 4! But the uploader is throwing me this error:
Error SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Great! Be sure you past the link and the run time in the MW as well. The run time goes in the "notes" column. Then change the "status" to "ready for PL"
It looks as if your technology has given you quite a bit of trouble! I can relate; I recently thought I had saved a rather complex chapter, but when I opened it, most of my edits had not been retained. Frustrating!
However, I didn't come to complain about Audacity. I came to ask if I could DPL this project for you. It sounds interesting.
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Bethesda Lily
"My soul waits for the Lord as watchmen for the morning, as watchmen for the morning" (Psalm 130:6).