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Piotrek81
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The Deluge vol.1 by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916) . Translated by Jeremiah Curtin (1835 - 1906).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-deluge-by-henryk-sienkiewicz/
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1886)..
Young Andrzej Kmita unexpectedly and unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of the conflict as a new war starts to ravage the already weakened Commonwealth. This decision costs him dearly as his beloved Olenka now sees him as a traitor.
This is an epic panorama of a country that is torn not only by a war with the external enemy, but also by a struggle with unscrupulous nobles who use their country's plight as an opportunity to magnify their power and influence even if that means siding with the enemy. On the other hand we also see valiant soldiers, who fight to expel the invading army both with their swords and with their wits. (Summary by Wikipedia and Piotr Nater)
BELOW ARE SHORT NOTES ON POLISH PRONUNCIATION. PLEASE TRY TO FOLLOW THESE RULES
Polish c = English ts
Polish ch = English h
Polish cz = English ch
Polish j = English y
Polish rz, ż = as j in French
Polish sz = English sh
Polish szcz = English shch
Polish w = English v

ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THE CHAPTERS CONSIST OF MORE THAN ONE SECTION. MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE LIST IN THE MAGIC WINDOW FOR DETAILS WHEN CLAIMING.
  1. How to claim a part, and "how it all works" here
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  6. BEFORE recording:
    Please check the Recording Notes:
    http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430

    Set your recording software to:

    Channels: 1 (Mono)
    Bit Rate: 128 kbps
    Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
  7. DURING recording:
    Please leave no more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of your recording!

    Make sure you add this to the beginning and end of your recording:
    Start of recording (Intro)
    • "Chapter [number] of The Deluge vol.1 . - 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]"
    • Say:
      " The Deluge vol.1 , by Henryk Sienkiewicz . Translated by Jeremiah Curtin [Chapter]"
    End of recording
    • At the end of the section, say:
      "End of [Chapter]"
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      "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
    • At the end of the book, say (in addition):
      "End of The Deluge vol.1 , by Henryk Sienkiewicz . Translated by Jeremiah Curtin "
    Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!

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  8. AFTER recording:
    Need noise-cleaning?
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    Save files as
    128 kbps MP3
    delugevol1_##_sienkiewicz_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. delugevol1_01_sienkiewicz_128kb.mp3)

    ID3 V2 tags
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    Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use – if you are unsure about ID3 tags, send me a message). Please mind upper and lower case!

    Title: ## - [Section title]
    Artist: Henryk Sienkiewicz
    Album: The Deluge vol.1

    Please ignore tags for Genre and Track Number - these will be filled in automatically at the cataloguing stage.

    Transfer of files (completed recordings)
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Any questions?
Please post below or PM me. :)
Last edited by Piotrek81 on August 5th, 2016, 7:16 am, edited 16 times in total.
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Post by Piotrek81 »

So, after some soul-searching I'm finally starting my first group project :)

Some remarks:
This book will actually have two introductory sections and the actual chapters will only begin with "003".
I'll also post a short guide to pronunciation soon. It would be cool if people could at least have glance at it to make the names sound consistent throughout the book.
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Post by wib66 »

Glad you have decided to take your first BC plunge if you need any help just ask I love BCing. It can seem a little daunting at first but you will soon get the hang of it. Enjoy
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Post by annise »

I'll set it up for you - back soon

Anne
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Post by annise »

I've been wondering how I knew the author and of course he wrote Quo Vadis - I've read the book years ago and seen the film ditto
All set up - I've set out the title field in the MW - it is much safer to have the section number there although it looks reduntant
I think you mentioned word counts - so I have put one in in the right place . Think that is all - I am off to bed , will check in the morning

Have fun

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Post by sonnethaiku »

Hooray! May I have Chapter 1 (section 2)?
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Post by Piotrek81 »

Sure thing :thumbs: I added you.

Meanwhile I also added short notes on pronunciation. It would be cool if people tried to follow them. Yeah, I know the formatting sucks. I'll try to fix it.
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Post by sonnethaiku »

Don't look for mine too soon - I'm imagining it will be a week at the earliest as I will be travelling. Plenty of time for me to brush up on pronunciation.
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Post by Piotrek81 »

OK, I'll take chapter 2, then :thumbs:
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Post by Rapunzelina »

This is very exciting Piotr! Please accept me as your DPL :D
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Post by Piotrek81 »

Cool :thumbs: You're in. If onnly I knew how to add you to the MW...
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Post by annise »

you don't know because you can't - things like that are based on the database - and onlly MC.s are allowed to muck up the database :D :D
Welcome aboard Rapunzelina - adding you now :D

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Post by Theodulf »

Hi - can I have section 03 (Chapter III)?

Also, regarding pronunciation: Piotrek, I'm wondering if/where your notes apply, because it looks like the translator already changed all the spelling into more English-friendly versions. For example, the town of Lubicz is now "Lyubich" in the English text, Pan Wolodyjowski is changed to "Volodyovski", and so forth.... or am I missing something?

Theo
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Post by Piotrek81 »

Thanks for claiming. Section 3 is yours. :thumbs:

As to the pronunciation, I've been thinking how to solve this situaton. The reason why I put the link to text-to-speech service is so that poeple don't have to try and re-construct every word sound by sound by themselves with the help of notes only, as I guess that even with the translator's guidelines this can yield different results. However, as you've just noticed the translator provided guidelines for pronunication which the text-to-speech thing ignores as it follows standard English pronunciation rules. I'm beginning to think that the only way out from this problem is for me to put some recording on-line for people to follow. I think I'll do it. That can take time, though...

EDIT: I've taken down the link to the text-to-speech thing so as not to confuse people.
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Post by Theodulf »

Hi - I'm editing Section 03 - if it's not too greedy, can I have Sections 04 and 05 too? That way I can "finish off" Pan Kmita's band of cut-throats with the same voice characterizations :)

In recording chapter 3 I followed the "rule" that the main accent for persons and places is always on the second-to-last syllable. Thus: Bil-LE-vich, KUL-vyets, RE-kuts, SMO-lensk, and so on. Is that right, Piotrek? If I am all wrong about this, let me know ...

Theo
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