This is our first mention, as far as I know, in an academic conference. By Gary Cziko of University of Illinois, in an article called:
Exploiting the Internet for Foreign Language Input: Resources, Tools and Techniques for Accessing Text and Audio, presented at an Teaching English conference in Taipei.
His wee text on LibriVox notes:
LibriVox: human recordings of a small number of books
Guess we need to get to work!
Human recordings, eh? As opposed to chimp recordings perhaps?
as opposed to computer-generated … see:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2