• This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/bengal-dacoits-and-tigers-by-sunity-devi/Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devi was a women's rights activist most interested in the education of girls. She became the first Indian woman awarded the title Companion, Order of the Indian Empire (CIE). In addition to Bengal Dacoits and Tigers, a collection of folkloric tales about dacoits (armed robber bands) and man-eating tigers, she authored The Beautiful Mogul Princesses. (Summary by Brian Fullen)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10928
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Magic Window:
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Genres for the project: Short Stories/Single Author Collections
Keywords that describe the book: bengali folklore, dacoit robbers, bengal tigers
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section # of Bengal Dacoits and Tigers. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Bengal Dacoits and Tigers, by Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee. Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Bengal Dacoits and Tigers, by Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee."
Filename: dacoitsandtigers_##_devi_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. dacoitsandtigers_01_devi_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: alg1001
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Please note:
The book is organized in two unnumbered parts, which are: Dacoit Stories and Tiger Stories. The stories that are grouped in those two parts of the book are also unnumbered. In order to reflect the structure and intent of the book's author and their publisher, each story will be recorded in its own section and the audio book sections will be grouped and ordered as in the printed text. Further, each audio book section title will reflect the part of the book in which the story was grouped in the printed text. Thank you.
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