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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 Doctor Nicola’s Experiment. 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: "Doctor Nicola’s Experiment, by Guy Boothby. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Chapter [number] of Doctor Nicola’s Experiment by Guy Boothby. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
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 Doctor Nicola’s Experiment, by Guy Boothby. "
There should be about 5 seconds of silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename doctornicolasexperiment_##_boothby_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. doctornicolasexperiment_01_boothby_128kb.mp3)
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Would you please use this 1899 text on Archive? https://archive.org/details/drnikolasexperi00goog
The text linked in the first post is on Gutenberg Australia, and their texts are sometimes not PD in the United States. I see that the two texts are different, so there's a chance that some non-US-PD changes were made to the one on Gutenberg Australia (it's got a notice that the e-book version was published in 2014). The Australian one might be OK for us, but I'd hate for there to be any problem after you recorded the whole thing.
The volume is right on the border of being too low (<86dB). Amplification can raise it some (86-87dB) but clipping will prevent more amplification. In Audacity, the Effect/Compressor function can lower the spikes that are causing the clipping. A video link is below. Other recording software I assume has a similar feature to reduce recording spikes.
Thanks for the advice. I don't usually have this problem, I normally run through CHECKER but that is absolute and I should have seen that it was close to the bottom.
Laurie Anne
Apologies lost focus there awhile, its not as if I'm new to this!!....... I do keep all my URL until the book is finished.
