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LibriVox
1.1
About
1.2
Policies
1.3
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
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
LibriVox and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Forum Policies
Recording & Text Policies
Language Policy
Music & Sound Effects Rules
Community service / volunteering for credit
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:
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
Proof Listeners or Editors Wanted
An Introduction to Proof-listening a Dramatic Work
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 precious hours reading whole chapters only to discover that your recording is unusable due to a preventable technical glitch.
1-Minute Test
(In another language:
Francais
Italiano
Portugues
Record
Newbie Guide to Recording
(In another language:
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
An Introduction to Dramatic Readings and Plays for New Readers
How to Edit a Dramatic Work
How to Create a Dramatic Reading Script
An Introduction to Proof-listening a Dramatic Work
How to Become a Dramatic Reading/Play Coordinator
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
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