Hi Ayishalyu!
One of the LibriVox MCs asked if I knew that your project needed Chinese PL-ing. I'm happy to commit myself as DPL as long as we can be on the same page for the following issues:
- The intro in all of your recordings isn't what you put down in the first post. My recommendation is that at the very least, insert the chapter titles at the end of each intro to help the listeners out (compare with recordings in English and you'll see what's missing in yours!);
and, if it's OK with the MCs, edit the format guide in the first post based on what you've been recording quite consistently to avoid having to re-record every intro. This helps the PLs out, as we'd have no other way to check if you've been consistent apart from re-listening to all of your previous recordings' intro. It's more of an issue some chapters down the line, but nevertheless a potential problem you don't want to leave brewing in the background.
There are other ways to sort this out, including re-recording all the intros. I'm open to suggestions!
- You've been recording snippets and stitching them together, instead of recording continuously and cutting out the extras, as recommended in the Newbie Guide to Recording. Your method doesn't change the content, sure, but it does create empty gaps with 0 background noise. The last 5 seconds of silence also has 0 background noise, which makes a rather abrupt end. Again, it can be useful to listen to published recordings in English to see what they're doing differently that makes a positive difference.
Moving forward, it'll be great if you can avoid stopping the recording while you're at it, and make all the edits afterwards.
As for the first 4 sections, I'd be grateful to have some input from MaryAnn: do you think there is a need to re-record them from beginning to end?
Let's figure these out before you launch into recording more content
English projects get DPLs pretty quickly, but our pool of Chinese speaking volunteers is smaller.
