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LibriVox & Academia

This is our first mention, as far as I know, in an academic conference. By Gary Cziko of University of Illinois, in an article called:

Exploiting the Internet for Foreign Language Input: Resources, Tools and Techniques for Accessing Text and Audio, presented at an Teaching English conference in Taipei.

His wee text on LibriVox notes:

LibriVox: human recordings of a small number of books

Guess we need to get to work!

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2 Responses to “LibriVox & Academia”

  1. Paula Says:
    November 10th, 2005 at 12:10 pm

    Human recordings, eh? As opposed to chimp recordings perhaps?

  2. hugh Says:
    November 10th, 2005 at 2:24 pm

    as opposed to computer-generated … see:
    http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2

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