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Length: 24:54
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Host: Jim Mowatt
Unsung Heroes of Librivox
Part 2 of the Proof Listeners Special
1. Interview with Luciberg
2. Promo for Casanova
3. Earthcalling David - talks about proof listeners
4. Tictockman pays tribute to ‘Heart of Texas’.
5. Cloud Mountain [...]

Radio Open Source, one of the original podcasts, and a truly excellent audio experience (they are the “blog with a radio show), is in some financial trouble. Help em out, if you can.

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Length: 42:07
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Host: Jim Mowatt
1. Interview with Karen Merline
2. Interview with Anna
3. Kara talks about proof listening and pays tribute to the Librivox proof listeners.
4. Alan Drake takes a look at what fresh fish we have in the [...]

At some point I did this interview with someone or other, but I honestly can’t remember when or where. I think it must have been Matt, at Podcamp Toronto. But in any case, here is a quick LibriVox interview on the CitizenSHIFT podcast (a project of the NFB).

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Length: 24:33
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1. Trioptimum and the large emperor.
2. Cloud Mountain, Tanzaku and the voice processor Behringer.
3. Gesine interrupts the nerdy stuff with a promo for Casanova.
4. Cori reads the improve your recording page from the Wiki.
5. [...]

Two of our favourite people, Project Gutenberg’s, Michael Hart and Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle, join Stanford’s Michael Keller on Ira Flatow’s NPR show, Science Friday for a great discussion of digital libraries.
Project Gutenberg is where we get most of our source texts, and Internet Archive hosts our audio files.
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The Gadget Lab blog at Wired has an article on loosening DRM with ebooks, and audiobooks. LibriVox plugged, and a mention of this interesting article about “audio books getting new respect from publishers,” to which we say: told you so.

This weekend we held a Librivox Worldwide Gathering at various locations around the world. Esther aka starlite, came to Sean aka ductapeguy’s house and we spent the day recording audio, and talking with librivox volunteers around the world. At the end of the afternoon, we recorded this week’s Librivox Community Podcast with Catharine [...]

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Length: 14:23
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1. Rowen bloopering on the word quadruped
2. Ductapeguy and his essay on Librivox as a ‘Killer App’
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