We’ve had some technical problems with Chapter 7 of the Secret Agent. After much toiling and voice modulation a wonderful (and London-accented!) Conrad rendition was produced by Lloyd Davis. Unfortunately, the mp3 files seemed to get corrupted with big patches of Audacity silence. Any Audacity experts out there, please lend a hand if you can.
On […]

Here’s a trick from a friend of mine who narrates books on tape for the blind.
If you stop a recording session without finishing the book, next time you prepare to record, play back the last few minutes of the previous recording and read along.
This helps your voice “settle in” and find the pace and […]

So things are clicking along at LibriVox, and we hope to make the volunteering easier to keep track of soon. Also, as mentioned, we’ll be opening up the book selection process, and putting it into the capable hands of the volunteers (who have suggested, among others, Joyce’s Ulysses (!) , some Homer, a Dutch collection, […]

When recording your chapters, be sure to have a glass of water on hand. Sip from it as you reach the end of a section or long passage, or before a retake, or while scrolling down thepage.
Being well-lubricated helps you maintain an even, unforced tone and minimize gummy lip smacking sounds.
Be sure to […]

We are fully subscribed for Notes from the Underground and Psmith in the City, so I have added 2 more books. (If you wish to record some other book in its entirety yourself, just let me know). If you wish to volunteer to read chapters of the two chosen books, please comment below, and:
a) name […]

The next choices for LibriVox are:
1. Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor DostoyevskyFind the gutenberg e-text here.
and,
2. Psmith in the City, by P.G. Wodehouse.Find the gutenberg e-text here.
The objective is to have the chapters recorded ahead of time, and then podcast one at a time in sequence, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (I hope). I […]