WHAT IS IT? pdsounds is like LibriVox for audio-other-than-text. Go there to find recordings of babies sneezing, cats purring and fireworks exploding. It’s all dedicated to the public domain, and therefore is available for people to use in all sorts of ways. Sounds from there make regular appearances in my LibriVox Community Podcasts, for example!

TAKE THE PDSOUNDS CHALLENGE!

A database of sounds is only as good as the sounds it contains. It needs more. LibriVoxers, by definition, tend to be audio-aware people, and many have microphones that could be turned away from the reader briefly to catch another noise. Or just upload your yawns, giggles and coughs as you snip them out of recordings!

BRONZE LEVEL: pledge to contribute one recording during May to pdsounds. Most files there are short (5-30 seconds) and are simple sounds. Every LibriVoxer with a microphone could do this. There is no sound too mundane!

SILVER LEVEL: pledge to contribute one recording a week. Come ON, the moment a yappy dog or low-flying plane interrupts your chapter, that’s your week’s contribution recorded!

GOLD LEVEL: aiming to upload a sound a day!

More info on the challenge, at the LV forum.

More info on PDsounds at PDsounds.

Your host this week is Cori Samuel.

Voices for the Addicted: musicmaiden, russiandoll, gypsygirl and Cloud Mountain. Please feel free to share your stories in that thread too.

New Projects Launch Pad - chocoholic explains all.

What are your favourite recordings? - Steampunk talks about this new thread — comments and suggestions very welcome.

Our most recently catalogued works can always be seen at: What’s New? — here’s a little sample.

Sound FX: Gong and Object Falling Noisily Off a Table found in the public domain at pdsounds.org.

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Dear Kayray ….I really am happy to send you this message ,since you are one of our favourite reader of the librivox.Me and my friends live in one of the nations in Africa,namely the proud and never colonized country Ethiopia.Though we are materially poor we enjoy here too much for the kind of calm civilization ,which exists here.We always listen,repetitevely,your recordings of “Letters of two brides” and we are impressed by your sweet and impressful voice which you arouse and ignite our passion for classic pieces like this.Please our dear lots people here in Ethiopia have started knowing you,we all are your fans and don’t hesitate to send us reply.We love you our dear sister!!!!! farewell
Voices from Africa

Your host this week is Cori Samuel.

Original thoughts by AmethystA and mlemmons.

Excerpts from:
Emma by Jane Austen - section read by kayray
Bleak House by Charles Dickens - section read by asy
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - section read by acrobatty

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters by Austen-Leigh and Austen-Leigh - read by gypsygirl

Snippets of music from Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ by Franz Schubert - played by Daniel Blanch.

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Some LV stat-stuff, admittedly more random than usual.

The oldest known recording of the human voice — from 1860.
Please note this is licenced under a Creative Commons copyright. Please refer their webpage to find out how you are allowed to use this. (Under the terms of the licence, I’ll be emailing them about our podcast. :)

An interview with Andy Minter, conducted by chocoholic.

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0:00 — Daniel rambles about acoustics
10:45 — Excerpt from Twelfth Night
11:02 — Stats intro
11:24 — Stats read by Helen Elsbeth
13:19 — New users
13:45 — According to Wikipedia (music: National Anthem of the Soviet Union as performed by the United States Navy Band)
15:08 — A message from Hugh (music: Má vlast from Musopen.org)
18:51 — Talmage On Miracles recited by Len Spencer (1902) from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California
21:03 — Daniel says good-bye

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Music by The Rogue Bluegrass Band, in the public domain at archive.org.

Starlite conducts an interview with johng. Part 1.

Hullo to some new folks, thanks from Katie12 (read by kayray) and stats by Great Plains.

Interview Part 2. Chicken sacrifices and utopia..? Listen on!

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Hi, I live in the Arctic Circle in Northern Sweden and we have some polish workers here and some of the guys are trying to teach them English.
They have been giving them Audio Books in English to listen to and someone suggested Audio Books and the EBook of same title so they could hear the words and see the text.
The only place I could think of for this is Librivox.
Do you have available the eBook text of your audio books so that anyone learning English could read along??

Dear Sir/Madam,
The service you are rendering to the teachers and students of English Literature is incredible. We would never forget ‘librivox’ for giving us such a beautiful audio books. We make use of these as teaching tools. And we get surprisingly magnificent results with our students.

First, I want to thank you for offering something like this. Second, I want to tell my story and how your site has affected me personally. I’m currently taking a class that has some pretty intense readings. With a full load of university classes, I don’t often have the time I need to invest toward this one class that has all these required readings. I found your site while looking for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in audio book form. Looking around on amazon and such, I found that I could easily get the abridged version, and not only that, but that it would cost me a pretty penny to not only purchase, but to have it sent so quickly.

I am writing to say thank you. Thank you for what you’ve offered. I spend the majority of my days in a car, commuting to work and school, and you have allowed me to be able to get a significant amount of “reading” done without having to lose so much of my day. Because of your site, I might actually get what I need done before test time. For that, I will be grateful. And because of your site, I’ve also been looking into seeing what I could do to volunteer to read some works, just to be able to give to someone else, what your volunteers have given me.

So thank you. Greatly.