Archive for the 'Librivox Community Podcast' Category

LibriVox Community Podcast #97

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #97 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 22:15
A Look at the LibriVox Forums – Off Topic
Voices in order of appearance (I know that’s not exactly the right word):
Great Plains
SFX: http://www.archive.org/details/gnatADarkandStormyNight
Thread: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1860
Robinsgirl
Music: Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells – Mussorgsky
Thread: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3020
RuthieG
Music: http://www.archive.org/details/OscarGrogan-WebOfLove1929
Forum: http://librivox.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=17
icyjumbo
Music: Trumpet Hornpipe – Trad. played [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #96

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #96 hosted by Andy Minter.
Duration 32:54
Doing the Voices – the Professionals
A podcast showing examples of how professional readers deal with things like cross-sex voices (that is, men reading women’s speech and vice versa), differentiating between characters, and using accents.
Please note this podcast is not in the [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #95

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #95 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 11:16
[Please note this is a repost from Thursday, as I got the URL wrong - apologies for the inconvenience. -- CS]
In order of being mentioned:
Gregg’s Weinbaum readings
Poe-m of the Week
The Multilingual Ravens
Mr Burns
My Wiki listing of short science fiction (beautifully organised [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #94

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #94 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 18:19
This week Redaer, Great Plains and icyjumbo talk about their favourite audio of 2008, while Cloud Mountain wishes LibriVoxers well in 2009.
Mentioned titles include:
http://librivox.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13197 (Faust, in German, still needing readers)
http://librivox.org/captain-blood-by-rafael-sabatini/
http://librivox.org/elusive-isabel-by-jacques-futrelle/
http://podiobooks.com/title/singularity
http://podiobooks.com/title/the-immortals
http://podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=solar+clipper
http://librivox.org/the-elusive-pimpernel-by-baroness-emmuska-orczy/
http://librivox.org/el-dorado-by-baroness-orczy/
http://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-by-mark-twain-2/
The Bloopettes are Robinsgirl and TriciaG, with a jingle from Bosco, [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #93

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #93 hosted by Cori Samuel.
Duration 17:48
This week’s show is on the theme of Getting Started! Karen Commins gives some excellent advice as a relative newcomer to LibriVox.
Earthcalling provides a musical interlude. Go Librivoxateers!
Hokuspokus, icyjumbo, Andy Minter, redaer and Great Plains discuss how they [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #92

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #92 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration 13:30
The latest releases at LibriVox can always be found via http://librivox.org/recently-cataloged/ and you can subscribe to the RSS feed from that page to have them sent immediately on release to your preferred news reader. Mentioned in this show were:
http://librivox.org/childhoods-favorites-and-fairy-stories-by-various/ (various readers, sample [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #91

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #91 hosted by Cori Samuel.

Duration 16:37
Hokuspokus, Gesine, redaer, catchpenny, Great Plains and hefyd answer the question: What was your favourite childhood book?
Hokuspokus mentions Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826 and Winnetou I while I talk a little about The Water-Babies … and if you are tantalised by catchpenny’s story, [...]

WANTED: December Community Podcast contributions (txt/mp3)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Cori writes:
Podcasts are fun. LibriVox podcasts are particularly fun. Please help me put the “Community” in “LibriVox Community Podcast” and consider contributing to one or more of the podcasts planned below.
11th December: LibriVox and the Daily Commute — travel tips for literate listeners
I’ve noticed people talking in the forums about MP3 players [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #89

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #89
Duration 35:07
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Bloopers contributed by various individuals with great senses of humour, via this thread.
sjmarky reviews the new Audio-Technica USB mic.
Ductapeguy introduces a new project using LibriVox files – the Narrative and Sound Project.
A Character Voices Special – Part [...]

Librivox Community Podcast #88

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #88 – 31st August 2008
Duration 25:00
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
Quotes from A.P. Herbert and Dale Carnegie, read by kayray.
I quote Clay Shirky’s presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 — watch the excellent video, or read his transcript.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, [...]