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Is there a natural way to address the crispness and piercing you hear Like dropping a flannel rag over the microphone? Not that I know of. The makers build in the effect in such a way that it's rough to remove. If you do anything wrong, the voice becomes muffled and dull. The object is carefully re...

Using MP3 or any other compressed files in production is not recommended. Their sound quality gets worse and worse as you edit. Use WAV or uncompressed/lossless filetypes and send through a file sharing service (DropBox??) rather than email. If you're sending a simple voice file, use Mono (one blue ...

ACX does not allow reading public domain books.

https://www.acx.com/help/200878270

Koz

I think I got it.

https://www.acx.com/audiolab

I'll dig around in there a bit later. I like their optimism:

make sure your sound meets our submission requirements every time.

Unless you can't read out loud. Then that's a problem....

Koz

I followed the amazon login system and I'm at the Playground page. I don't see "Audiolab." Audiolab-Playground.png Does the analysis only appear after you have an ACX account? Do you have more 'things' on that page than I do? I did find several places that reference the reader already havi...

Both pass the technical standards checks, but in my opinion they're a little too crisp and piercing. "AliSS felt thiSS could not be denied." Screen Shot 2020-07-28 at 4.35.01 PM.png That little haystack between 3500 and roughly 8000 (along the bottom) should not be there. That produces the...

Before you do that.

That's not useful. It's far more valuable if you post a clean, dry, raw reading. Don't do anything to it.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Tes ... _Clip.html

We will marshal our forces and master it for publication. If we can't.......

Koz

Where are you in the production and publication process?

ACX has changed their acceptance process and made it much harder for new readers. Are you reading out loud a book I can buy on Amazon?

Koz

There's two ACX Checks. The legacy one had troubles with longer files. The new one is here.

https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqu ... #ACX_Check

Koz

so I clicked okay and the file closed. The Prompt closed. And then you closed the lid on the laptop or shut down the machine or put it to sleep? If it was a long show, it may have still been saving and had everything open when you closed the lid. Did the multiple saves all have the same show name? ...