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Stats Thursday

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

So for the past several weeks, we’ve been adding about 25-ish new volunteers to the forum a week. Then last week, an article came out in wired.com, and then got picked up elsewhere, including the German site heise online.
Well, the result was 85 new volunteers this week, and a hectic, busy time trying to manage [...]

LibriVox flickr badge

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

We now have a flickr badge … scroll down and look at the photos to the right. Any public photos tagged “librivox” on flickr will turn up here … so take a pic of your studio, some old books we’re doing, libraries … anything you like, and you’ll see it there eventually.
Oh if you don’t [...]

LibriVox – Poetry experiment

Monday, November 14th, 2005

OK, here’s an experiment. We’ve posted a poem in the forum (by William Blake), and we’re asking everyone and anyone to record a version of it. We’ll leave the poem open for a week.
This is a good way to cut your teeth if you haven’t recorded anything yet, and want to try. It’s [...]

Looking for Volunteers!

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

We’re always looking for new volunteers! Here’s some text you can post on your blog, or send to anyone you think might be interested in our project. In French and English… if anyone would like to make versions in other languages, please do so, and let us know! Thanks!
ENGLISH:

Volunteers wanted for LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record [...]

Forums Now Available

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Want to discuss the best way to record your chapters? Wonder about about how to pronounce character names? Are you eager to share a brilliant tip to help us all improve our readings?
Well now you can. We’ve added forums to LibriVox. We hope this will be a useful resource for all LibriVox readers, book curators, [...]

coming attractions & book suggestions

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

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 [...]

news of note

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

A few changes in the life of LibriVox, and some interesting developments.
First, thanks to Kristen for doing some organizational & design work on the site. We’ll be looking at moving to a more robust content management system soon, to make the book choice/chapter reservation process more efficient. A “call for volunteers” will be going [...]

project background-podcast

Friday, August 19th, 2005

While we wait for fling93 to produce chapter 3 of the Secret Agent, I thought it would be worthwhile to record a more detailed background on the project (with “umms” edited out!).
Also, stay tuned for an interview about LibriVox with Paula B of the Writing Show.
And here’s the latest librivox podcast, a non-chapter explanation [...]

librivox – on playlistmag.org

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

so we’ve made it to playlistmag.org! and got hits galore on the site. Thanks for the nice write-up, mat.
Chapter 3 is on its way, as is a more detailed audio intro to the project.
In the mean time, I’ve had some problems with the ourmedia.org uploader (won’t work on the PC, won’t work on the mac) [...]

Welcome to LibriVox

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Here is a brief intro librivox podcast.
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? Here’s how it works (for now):

A book will be selected by LibriVox from the gutenberg project’s database of public domain [...]