I'm passionate about computers and wrote "Give Your Voice" a software dedicated to voice recording and producing MP3 for LibriVox and LitteratureAudio.com (a french equivalent of LibriVox). It's free and the code is open source (GPLv3).
At this time, it work for Windows 64b and Linux 64b (tested under Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS). In a futur, a MacOS compatible version will be available.
Download the latest version at: https://github.com/Lulu04/Give-Your-Voice/releases/latest
The software support english and french languages.
If you're interested in giving it a try, install it and start a small project: maybe there are still a few bugs. All ideas for improvement are welcome !
Features
- One directory per section (chapter/text/poem) -> your project is well organized.
- Allow multiple recording per section -> the software keep the page number where you stopped.
- Remove background noise on recording files.
- While recording, use CONTROL KEY to mark places where you have made reading errors, making it easy to find and correct them.
- Audio tools:
- add silence, cut or silencing part
- insert new recording at cursor position
- replace the selected audio by a new recording
- Mix your voices recording in a simplified window
- compressor, amplify and bass boost effects for voice enhancement
- Add musics and sounds to your reading (not allowed by LibriVox). Trim the musics/sounds and keep only the part that interests you
- graphical volume envelope to easily control the volume (fadein, fadeout)
- editable metadata
- integrated audio limiter to minimize audio clipping
- Produce MP3 files compatible with LibriVox.org and LitteratureAudio.com
- respects of their rules for file name
- MP3 generated at 44100Hz, mono, constant bitrate mode, 128kbps
- normalization at 89dB as MP3Gain, (can be modified)
- Export several MP3 files into a single ZIP file.
- Compress your terminated projects to free disk space.
- Full undo/redo system for audio modification.
- Supported language: French, English.
- This software was made with love, however it may contain some bugs!
The main window with the project tree view and the audio edition at the bottom
Background noise analysis before recording voice
The mixer window where you produce the MP3 files