Flora a Book of Drawings by Pamela Bianco

Contents

• 1 LibriVox
  • 1.1 About
  • 1.2 Policies
  • 1.3 Copyright
• 2 Listen
  • 2.1 Listening to the files
  • 2.2 Finding Audiobooks
    • 2.2.1 Recommendations
    • 2.2.2 Searching
    • 2.2.3 Lists & Indexes
  • 2.3 Other resources for listeners
• 3 Volunteer
  • 3.1 Where to Start
    • 3.1.1 Types of Projects
  • 3.2 Proof Listener (PL)
  • 3.3 Reader (Narrator)
    • 3.3.1 One Minute Test
    • 3.3.2 Record
    • 3.3.3 Recording Resources: Non-Technical
    • 3.3.4 Recording Resources: Technical
    • 3.3.5 Dramatic Readings and Plays
  • 3.4 Book Coordinator (BC)
  • 3.5 Metadata Coordinator (MC)
  • 3.6 Graphic Artist
  • 3.7 Resources and Miscellaneous
  • 3.8 How to Edit the Librivox Wiki

LibriVox

About

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 volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

• LibriVox
• How LibriVox Works
• Donate
• How to Volunteer

Policies

• Language Policy
• Forum Policies
• Recording & Text Policies
• Music & Sound Effects Rules
• Community service / volunteering for credit

Copyright

• Copyright and Public Domain
• Why Public Domain and not a Creative Commons license?
• LibriVox and Ebay Resellers

Listen

Listening to the files

• Librivox Catalog
• The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection (Internet Archive)

See also: How To Get LibriVox Audio Files

Finding Audiobooks

Recommendations

• Staff Picks

Searching

• Catalog Page
• How to find a reader
• Readers' Accents Table

Lists & Indexes

• 52 Books
• Great Books of the Western World
• Recordings of Books on the Ambleside List
• Recordings of Books on the Ambleside List 2
• Penguin's Great Ideas Series
• Boy Scout Novels

Other resources for listeners

• LibriVox Community Podcasts
• Thank a Reader
• Beginner's Guide to Cutting Audio
• How To Split With Mp3Splt
• Slowing Down a Recording

Volunteer

(In another language: Français: Comment devenir benevole)

LibriVox volunteers narrate, proof listen, and upload chapters of books and other textual works in the public domain. These projects are then made available on the Internet for everyone to enjoy, for free.

There are many, many things you can do to help, so please feel free to jump into the Forum and ask what you can do to help!

See also: How LibriVox Works

Where to Start

Most of what you need to know about LibriVox can be found on the LibriVox Forum and the FAQ. LibriVox volunteers are helpful and friendly, and if you post a question anywhere on the forum you are likely to get an answer from someone, somewhere within an hour or so. So don't be shy! Many of our volunteers have never recorded anything before LibriVox.

The roles involved in making a LibriVox recording

Types of Projects

We have three main types of projects:

• Collaborative projects: Many volunteers contribute by reading individual chapters of a longer text.

We recommend contributing to collaborative projects before venturing out to solo projects.

• Dramatic Readings and Plays: contributors voice the individual characters. When complete, the editor compiles them into a single recording
• Solo projects: One experienced volunteer contributes all chapters of the project.

Proof Listener (PL)

Not all volunteers read for LibriVox. If you would prefer not to lend your voice to LibriVox, you could lend us your ears. Proof listeners catch mistakes we may have missed during the initial recording and editing process.

• Guide for Proof-listeners
• Prooflistening FAQ
• Listeners & Editors Wanted

Reader (Narrator)

Readers record themselves reading a section of a book, edit the recording, and upload it to the LibriVox Management Tool.

For an outline of the Librivox audiobook production process, please see The LibriVox recording process.

One Minute Test

We require new readers to submit a sample recording so that we can make sure that your set up works and that you understand how to export files meeting our technical standards. We do not want you to waste previous hours reading whole chapters only to discover that your recording is unusable due to a preventable technical glitch.

• 1-Minute Test

(In another language: Deutsch, Español, Francais, Italiano, Portugues)

Record

• Newbie Guide to Recording

(In another language: Deutsch, Español, Francais, Nederlands, Português, Tagalog, 中文)

• Instructional Videos
• Help! What if I Suck

Recording Resources: Non-Technical

• LibriVox disclaimer in many languages
• English Pronunciation Guides
• Foreign Words Pronunciation
• Voice Character Performance
• Storyteller's Recording Guide

Recording Resources: Technical

• Guides from a Sound Engineer

• Basic Principles of Audio Recording
• Basic Principles of Audio Processing
• Removing Mains Hum
• Questions and Answers

• Recording Troubleshooter
• Improve Your Recording
• Make a Portable Vocal Booth
• Improving Computer Performance
• Setting Recording Input Level
• What is ID3
• Podcasting and Streaming Audio

Dramatic Readings and Plays

• Dramatic Readings and Plays
• Editing a Dramatic Work
• Creating a Dramatic Reading Script
• Proof-listening a Dramatic Work
• Dramatic Work Resources

Book Coordinator (BC)

A book coordinator (commonly abbreviated BC in the forum) is a volunteer who manages all the other volunteers who will record chapters for a LibriVox recording.

• How To Become A Book Coordinator

Metadata Coordinator (MC)

Metadata coordinators (MCs), help and advise Book Coordinators, and take over the files with the completed recordings (soloists are also Book Coordinators in this sense, as they prepare their own files for the Meta coordinators). The files are then prepared and uploaded to the LibriVox catalogue, in a lengthy and cumbersome process.

More info:

• How LibriVox Works
• Bible Book MC Guide
• MC Drama Cataloging Notes

Graphic Artist

Volunteer graphic artists create the album cover art images shown in the catalog.

• CD Covers
• Volunteer CD Covers! Working Thread

Resources and Miscellaneous

Resources

• LibriVox in the News
• Promotional Material
• Banners and Buttons
• Book Resources
• Poetry FAQ
• Misc Q&As
• Glossary
• Archives

How to Edit the Librivox Wiki

NOTE: Anyone may read this Wiki, but if you wish to edit the pages, please log in, as this Wiki has been locked to avoid spam. Apologies for the inconvenience.

If you need to edit the Wiki, please request a user account, with a private mail (PM) to one of the admins: dlolso21, triciag, or knotyouraveragejo.

You will be given a username (same as your forum name) and a temporary password. Please include your email address in your PM.

Flora a Book of Drawings by Pamela Bianco

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