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Posted on November 10, 2005 by | Posted in News, site & admin | Comments: 1 Comment on Looking for Volunteers!

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 chapters of books in the public domain in digital format, and we release the audio files back into the public
domain (catalog and podcast). We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

LibriVox is always looking for volunteers, to read and record chapters of books in the public domain, but also to help with other aspects of
this growing project: technical (cataloging, social networking, web design, communication); graphics; publicity; coordination of volunteers
etc etc… We have about 80 volunteers right now, more than 10 books finished, and we expect to have 30 done by the end of 2005. Right now all our titles are in English, but we hope to have other languages soon. Come help us out.

Info:
http://librivox.org
http://librivox.org/volunteer-for-librivox/
http://librivox.org/forum
info AT librivox DOT org

FRANCAIS:

LibriVox recherche des volontaires
LibriVox demande aux volontaires d’enregistrer des chapitres de livre du domaine publique, dans un format numérique. Nous cédons ensuite les fichiers audio au domaine publique. C’est un project complètement *open source*, volontaire, contenu libre, domaine publique. Notre objectif: avoir tous les livres du domaine publique disponibles, gratuits, dans un format audio, sur l’Internet.

LibriVox recherche toujours des volontaires, pour lire et enregistrer des chapitres, mais également pour aider avec d’autres aspects de ce
projet grandissant: gestion technique (cataloguer, conception web, communication); conception graphique; publicité; la coordination des
volontaires etc.. etc….. nous avons environ 80 volontaires en ce moment, nous avons enregistré 10 livres jusqu’à maintenant, et espérons
terminer 30 livres d’ici la fin de 2005. En ce moment tous nos titres sont en anglais, mais nous espérons entendre d’autres langues bientôt! Venez nous aider.

Info:
http://librivox.org
http://librivox.org/volunteer-for-librivox/
http://librivox.org/forum
info AT librivox DOT org

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Forums Now Available

Posted on September 26, 2005 by | Posted in For Volunteers, News, site & admin | Comments: 4 Comments on Forums Now Available

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, admins, and other volunteers.

Click on the forums link in the blue volunteers box to be directed to the new forums at mediatinker.com.

To participate in the forums, please register on the forum page.

Listeners, there’s a place in the forums for you to leave your suggestions, too.

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coming attractions & book suggestions

Posted on September 22, 2005 by | Posted in site & admin, upcoming titles | Comments: 6 Comments on coming attractions & book suggestions

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 the home front, we are fully-subscribed now for:

  • The Secret Agent
  • Psmith in the City
  • Notes from the Underground
  • Call of the Wild

Tolstoy’s Childhood, for some reason, still needs voices to go with it’s chapters! To hear why we chose Childhood, have a listen to Dale’s excellent rendition of chapters 7-9). To reserve a highly-coveted Childhood chapter, please comment here.

Two other points of note.

1. While we will only podcast sequentially one (or 2?) books at a time, we’ll post chapters as they come in to our LibriVox catalogue of books. So if you want to listen to not-yet-“released” LibriVox recordings, or to link to your recording, check the catalogue and it should be there.

2. We want your suggestions for LibriVox books. Please post your book suggestions below. Also, we would like the salespeople among you to go out and recruit volunteers to record books which you suggest … we’ll award special public domain prizes (yet to be determined) to anyone who can gather volunteers for a complete book. Spread the public domain audio gospel!

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news of note

Posted on September 15, 2005 by | Posted in site & admin | Comments: 15 Comments on news of note

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 out (soonish) for any techies out there interested in helping with that process. Please comment below if you would like to help.

Second, in the “nothing new under the sun” department, here’s a site from France, operating since January 2005, doing much the same thing as LibriVox: incipit blog … great titles too!

And: we’ve been in touch with Project Gutenberg (our source for public domain e-texts) regarding LibriVox and got an enthusiastic response from CEO Dr. Gregory Newby. We’ll be trying to figure out how to make that connection work, over the next few months. We’ll be doing the same with the Internet Archive , to try to streamline our audio file hosting process.

Finally, if you wish to record for LibriVox, Boyhood (Tolstoy) and Frankenstein (Shelley), still have chaps up for grabs. Reserve your chapters here.

In the mean time, get to your microphones, or just sit back and listen …

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