August, 2010

LibriVox in AT&T commercial

Posted on August 26, 2010 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 4 Comments on LibriVox in AT&T commercial

The cover art to LibriVox’s recording of Moby Dick is currently featuring in an ad campaign by the US telecoms company AT&T.

You can see the ad by clicking here. It was directed by Dennis Liu for the ad agancy BBDO.

You can see the shot of the cover art, created by regular LV sleeve contributor Kate Delaney, a few seconds into the commerical, and if you are really keen-eyed, you can also make out the word “LibriVox”.

http://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/

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LibriVox Community Podcast #114

Posted on August 10, 2010 by | Posted in For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on LibriVox Community Podcast #114

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #114 hosted by Lucy Perry.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_114.mp3]

Duration: 1hr 47min

With contributions from hugh, kayray, Algy Pug, Availle, RuthieG, Rowland, ExEmGe, HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan, neckertb, Nicholas19, gloriana, Cori, tis, Gesine, annise, Jonathan Awesome, KathrynD, rf, Great Plains, Starlite, aradlaw, TriciaG, russiandoll, wdcallahan and Claire — along with a host of other LibriVox Voices. Sound effects mostly from pdsounds.org

Join us as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. Listen as our readers tell us about the parts of LibriVox that they love. And enjoy a lazy afternoon pondering the future of LibriVox.

Running order:
An interview with kayray (4:40)
Algy Pug gives a new reader’s view of LibriVox (14:13)
Some LibriVox statistics collected by Availle (17:22)
RuthieG and the Fifth Anniversary Collections (25:06)
Rowland on LibriVox Addiction (27:40)
ExEmGe on how LibriVox has changed his life (31:57)
LibriVox is Five Years Old, a poem by Lucy_k_p (35:32)
The Languages of LibriVox (37:14)
HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan and neckertb discuss the latest German, Tamil and French works (41:10)
The Language Learning Initiative by Nicolas19 (54:18)
gloriana talks about what’s new in the Dramatic Works Forum (56:47)
Cori reflects on Podcasts (1:04:02)
An interview with hugh (1:05:09)
tis gives us a look behind the scenes at the technical side of LibriVox (1:18:53)
Gesine tell us how to Thank a Reader (1:23:23)
annise and Jonathan Awesome discuss the making of M4B files (1:28:15)
How I create CD Covers by KathrynD (1:32:30)
rf on plain vanilla CD case inserts (1:35:23)
Some advice to new volunteers from Great Plains (1:39:18)
The LibriVox Fundraiser (1:40:31)
Happy Anniversary LibriVox, from all our readers (1:43:05)

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To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast

Or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Recent past and present LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on:
Archive.org

Archived shows for previous years can be found at:
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Archived shownotes for the Community Podcast can be found at:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/

And the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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LibriVox Turns Five

Posted on August 10, 2010 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 20 Comments on LibriVox Turns Five

On August 10, 2005 I put up a website, called it LibriVox, and posted the following:

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?

LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast every week (?).

Five years later, it seems as if the answer is: yes.

Our latest catalog statistics are the following:

* Number of completed projects: 3,656
* Number of completed non-English projects: 533
* Total number of languages: 31
* Number of languages with a completed work: 29
* Number of completed solo projects: 1676
* Number of readers: 3889

For the last six months, we’ve averaged 87 books a month, or just under 3 books per day.

Total recorded time: 76119522 seconds, or 2 years, 150 days, 12 hours, 41 minutes, and 10 seconds. Total of 76226 sections.

We’ve achieved all this in large part thanks to wonderful resources of our partners: Project Gutenberg, who still provide the bulk of our texts; Distributed Proofreaders, who help proofread Gutenberg texts; the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who help point us in the right direction on the rare occasions when we have legal questions; and of course the Internet Archive, who host all of our terabytes of audio files (for free).

Thank you also to those who donated in our first-ever fund-raiser, to help keep LibriVox servers (the non-audio ones) paid-for for the foreseeable future.

And finally: thank you to all the volunteers: the proof-listeners, and the readers, and the BCs and MCs and CD-cover makers, the coders and sysadmins, and all of you who help keep LibriVox going.

I’m looking forward to the next five years.

Perhaps you’d like to help us record more public domain books?

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LibriVox Community Podcast #113

Posted on August 4, 2010 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on LibriVox Community Podcast #113

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #113 with Gesine.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2010/librivox_community_podcast_113.mp3]

Duration: 25:04

In Community Podcast 113, Gesine explains the ins and outs of the new ‘Thank a reader’ feature on the LibriVox website. Clicking on the link in the right-hand sidebar, listeners can send their thanks to a designated email address, and an admin posts the messages in a forum thread and also notifies each reader by PM. From its conception in April to the date of the podcast, August 2010, we’ve received more than 250 thank you emails (approx. 90 messages per month).

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To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast

Or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Recent past and present LibriVox Community Podcast files can be found at our spot on:
Archive.org

Archived shows for previous years can be found at:
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Archived shownotes for the Community Podcast can be found at:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/

And the rss feed for those shownotes is:
http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

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