Archive for the 'Librivox Community Podcast' Category

LibriVox Community Podcast #110

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #110 hosted by Cori.

Duration: 20:21
Learning a New Language with LibriVox!
Happy New Year (again!)
Gregg Margaritte talks about his year at LibriVox (his LibriVersary is this Saturday.)
Nicholas Bridgewater reads the post which started off the Language Learning Resources mini-project at LibriVox. Also, some samples of his language recordings — and [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #109

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #109 hosted by Neeru and Dii.

Duration: 56:01
New Year, new exoplanets and a new podcaster duo!
 
Happy New Year, everyone! We have on our show:
 
What’s so special about 2009?
 
An interview with Lucy_k_p
 
Messages from Nadine, Bart, Availle, Joy, Christian, Barry, Elli (read by Neeru), Ryan, Dii and Neeru about their 2009 debuts
 
A Special [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #108

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #108 hosted by Cori.

Duration: 30:53
Seasons greetings! The main voices you’ll hear, in order of appearance:
Me!
Elli and Neeru (and many blooping stars!)
Lucy Perry’s post read by David Lawrence
Sean McGaughey (excerpted from a For the Sake of the Song podcast)
Nicholas Bridgewater (from forthcoming project Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando de L. [...]

LibriVox Video Tutorial #1: Intro to LibriVox

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The wonderful Daniel / Great Plains made this superb video tutorial explaining LibriVox to the uninitiated:

[Link].
More to come, we hope. Thanks Daniel.

About that Ulysses Recording

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

One of the oddities in the LibriVox catalog is our recording of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It gets not-infrequent complaints, well-deserved I suppose if a listener is expecting, oh, an audiobook of James Joyce’s Ulysses. While some of the chapters of that book are read straight up, it was an early project where “creative interpretations” [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #107

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #107 hosted by Cori.

Duration: 16:32
Intro by Cori and a Poem by Neeru.
Guest appearances by Various Giggling stars of the Blooper Thread.
TriciaG talks about Proof-Listening – an essential part of the LibriVox Audiobook Production Process.

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LibriVox’s Fourth Anniversary (and Community Podcast #106)

Monday, August 10th, 2009

It’s our Fourth Anniversary! LibriVox started with an optimistic blog post on 10th August, 2005 … and then grew and grew and …We now have a catalog of 2,557 books in 26 languages. And our catalog is growing every day.
You too can volunteer! Or perhaps just pop in to say hi on the forum.
And [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #105

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #105 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration: 26:45
I’m talking about :
Our 2,500th recording is complete and catalogued!
It’s Lars’ birthday – Neeru and Elli enlist Ben Jonson and Barry to help celebrate!
All about the LibriVox policy welcoming multiple versions of the same text – our Choice of Voice!
Voices heard, in [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #104

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #104 hosted by Elli and Neeru.

Duration 50:56
We are talking about :
The one complaint of all librivoxateers- librivox is too addictive!
LV invading dreams and making imagination running wild!
How does the (non)addict – Lars Rolander manage to stay un-addicted?
How does a librivoxateer know he/she is addicted?
Test yourself [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #103

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #103 hosted by Epistomolus, with contributions from GreggMargarite and RuthieG.

Duration 19:22
Epistomolus makes some suggestions for those recording here at LibriVox … Gregg talks to recording folk also, about inhibitions and the benefits of easing out of them … and Ruth answers the generally very sensible question (to a non-LibriVoxer, [...]