Keith, it's marvelous! (You seemed to have so much fun with it, too - would you care to pick up the other empty slots on the table, to make this a trio work? If that's not floating your boat, no worries, we'll let them wait for others who want to pick them up.)
There is one thing that needs to be fixed per LibriVox parameters - Can you please snip out the extra silence from the beginning, so that it is only 1 second long? It is currently 5 seconds. And then, paste that onto the end so that the silence there will be 5 seconds instead of only 2.
I also wanted to let you know about Noise Reduction.
This recording gets flagged by Checker for moderate background noise, but it is super easy to take care of that. In Audacity, "Noise Reduction" is my most favorite editing tool!
It is a two-step process. It is great at cleaning out background noise so your recording is clean and clear, but you do need to watch out how strongly you apply it, because if you do it too much, it will distort your recording so that it starts sounding tinny, with Darth Vader breathing, and even like space monkeys are invading your reading.
Open your recording file, and then:
- Zoom the track bigger so you can easily highlight the ending silence period. (Just click and drag your mouse across that stretch.)
- In the Effects Menu, select "Noise Reduction"
- Click on "Get Noise Profile" (the pop-up window will disappear)
- Now click Control-A to highlight the entire track.
- Re-open the Noise Reduction effect and for now use these numbers:
Noise Reduction: 12
Sensitivity: 6
Frequency smoothing: 3
- Click OK
Then you're ready to re-export to mp3 and upload the file the same way you did the first time. (keep the mp3 file name the same)
