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Proof-Listening

Posted on October 22, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, For Volunteers, News | Comments: 6 Comments on Proof-Listening

Many people who are not comfortable recording for LibriVox help out in other ways. You might consider helping as a Proof-Listener, making sure that there are no technical problems with an audio file before it goes into the catalog. This includes repeats, badly edited sections, major stumbles, long silences and the like.

Because of the quirky nature of LibriVox (all readers are welcome, and we don’t judge style or accent) PLers are not there to evaluate the more subjective quality of a recording, so:

What types of errors should I NOT be listening?
Text content, reading style, speed, pronunciation, or accents. The LibriVox community values a wide variety of reading styles; what one person finds difficult to hear, another person may really enjoy. The interpretation of the reader is not for our proof-listeners to judge. If you are uncomfortable listening to a particular voice, feel free to return the section to the pool for another proof-listener to claim.

Would you like to help out proof-listening? Read up on it here, and look for the Listeners & Editors Wanted thread in the Forum.

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iPod & Philosophy

Posted on October 21, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 2 Comments on iPod & Philosophy

Dylan Wittkower, LibriVox’s resident philosopher and reader of such gems as Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and JS Mill’s Utilitarianism, has edited a new academic/popular text, The iPod and Philosophy, which includes some contributions from the LibriVox community.

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365 Days of LibriVox Audio

Posted on October 15, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News | Comments: 3 Comments on 365 Days of LibriVox Audio

This past weekend, LibriVox reached an extraordinary milestone: our catalog now contains 365 days worth of free, public domain audiobooks. So, if you started to listen to the catalog today, spending 24-hours-a-day with your headphones, it would take you a full year to listen to our entire current catalog. By which time, you’ll have hours and hours of new audio from LibriVox to entertain and enlighten you. In our three year existence we have produced an extraordinary average of 8-hours-a-day of audiobooks, all read by volunteers, all made available for free. Our catalog is currently at 1,826 works, in 26 different languages.

In the past week alone we’ve released numerous wonderful recordings, including:

Perhaps you’d like to come help us record more?

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Problems with Archive.org – Stay Tuned

Posted on August 22, 2008 by | Posted in about LibriVox, News, site & admin | Comments: 6 Comments on Problems with Archive.org – Stay Tuned

Hello Everyone,

We host all our audio files with the wonderful archive.org. The last couple of days, we’ve been getting numerous reports of LirbiVox books being unavailable, unfindable, or undownloadable. We are looking into it with archive.org – but don’t panic! We’ve had similar issues in the past, and after some hiccups, we expect things will get back to normal. Eventually. Stay tuned … and watch this space for news.

All the best,
Hugh.

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