Complete [Animals] The Tower Menagerie by Edward Turner Bennett-ag

[alg1001]

I'll take the last section and move us to Readers Found.

[Danigirl]

I would like to go back in time and donate to Mr Edward Turner Bennett a lifetime supply of periods. Yikes! These sentences just keep going on forever with their sub-sub-sub-subordinate clauses!

Did I pick an outlier? Or are the other sections just as unwieldy?
I had to dissect nearly every "sentence" into its component parts so I could read it with the proper inflection/focus.

Anyway, here are the Bears, section 13
https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_13_bennett_128kb.mp3
34:21

In contrast to silvan above, I would characterize my section as "not that much fun".

I never would have guessed that you were having a rough time. You did an amazing job!
There are a couple of things to cut out and we are all set.
@7:54 - repeat "extreme tenacity of life"
@22:14 - repeat "He does not offer the slightest encouragement"
11 seconds of silence at the end. Need to shave that closer to 5.

I seem to remember reading that we should try to get as close to 5 sec as possible.
Amy, please let me know if the rule is at least 5 seconds.

[alg1001]

Hi Danielle,
It is 0.5 to 1 second at the beginning and 5 seconds at the end.
Thanks!
-Amy

[quartertone]

I never would have guessed that you were having a rough time. You did an amazing job!
There are a couple of things to cut out and we are all set.
@7:54 - repeat "extreme tenacity of life"
@22:14 - repeat "He does not offer the slightest encouragement"
11 seconds of silence at the end. Need to shave that closer to 5.

I seem to remember reading that we should try to get as close to 5 sec as possible.
Amy, please let me know if the rule is at least 5 seconds.

Thanks! It's amazing how useful editing can be in eliminating curse words from the final mix

Issues fixed! Also, I think you meant 17:54 for the first one, so I fixed the repeat there. And I added a few hundred ms to the beginning since there was only about 350 ms of silence at the start.

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_13_bennett_128kb.mp3
Duration 34:07

[alg1001]

Thank you for updating it! I marked it Ready for Spot PL.

[Danigirl]

I never would have guessed that you were having a rough time. You did an amazing job!
There are a couple of things to cut out and we are all set.
@7:54 - repeat "extreme tenacity of life"
@22:14 - repeat "He does not offer the slightest encouragement"
11 seconds of silence at the end. Need to shave that closer to 5.

I seem to remember reading that we should try to get as close to 5 sec as possible.
Amy, please let me know if the rule is at least 5 seconds.

Thanks! It's amazing how useful editing can be in eliminating curse words from the final mix

Issues fixed! Also, I think you meant 17:54 for the first one, so I fixed the repeat there. And I added a few hundred ms to the beginning since there was only about 350 ms of silence at the start.

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_13_bennett_128kb.mp3
Duration 34:07

I am sorry, Quartertone. I did not mean to make you hunt for that edit.

PL OK

[quartertone]

I never would have guessed that you were having a rough time. You did an amazing job!
There are a couple of things to cut out and we are all set.
@7:54 - repeat "extreme tenacity of life"
@22:14 - repeat "He does not offer the slightest encouragement"
11 seconds of silence at the end. Need to shave that closer to 5.

I seem to remember reading that we should try to get as close to 5 sec as possible.
Amy, please let me know if the rule is at least 5 seconds.

Thanks! It's amazing how useful editing can be in eliminating curse words from the final mix

Issues fixed! Also, I think you meant 17:54 for the first one, so I fixed the repeat there. And I added a few hundred ms to the beginning since there was only about 350 ms of silence at the start.

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_13_bennett_128kb.mp3
Duration 34:07

I am sorry, Quartertone. I did not mean to make you hunt for that edit.

PL OK

No worries!
I just found another mistake at around 28:10, where I repeated "Ursus...". (I listen to my finished recordings for my own enjoyment, why not ) Easy to miss, since it's the latin name of the animal and could be mistaken as a normal nomenclature.
I corrected it, and uploaded the correction.

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_13_bennett_128kb.mp3
New duration: 34:05

[RitaBoutros]

Here's section 04 Leopards:

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_04_bennett_128kb.mp3
11:24

[alg1001]

Thank you for the Leopards, Rita!
-Amy

[Danigirl]

Section 02:

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_02_bennett_128kb.mp3
43:39

PL OK

[Danigirl]

Here's section 04 Leopards:

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_04_bennett_128kb.mp3
11:24

Leopards PL OK

[RitaBoutros]

Section 07 (the cheetah):

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_07_bennett_128kb.mp3
19:01

How amazing to see that the King of England, who was honored with a gift of 2 cheetahs, thought it best fit to lock them in the tower. No wonder they died. Jeez...

[alg1001]

It must have been horrible for them not to be able to run. Wouldn't that have been a sight!
Thank you for this, Rita!
-Amy

[Danigirl]

Section 07 (the cheetah):

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_07_bennett_128kb.mp3
19:01

How amazing to see that the King of England, who was honored with a gift of 2 cheetahs, thought it best fit to lock them in the tower. No wonder they died. Jeez...

Poor Cheetahs
PL OK

[JesseAudio]

Hi Jesse,
No, don 't say them. We can ignore the captions.
Thanks!
-Amy

Here is section 12: https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/tower_12_bennett_128kb.mp3
Ready for PL @ 7:34.