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That's USB whine, frying mosquitos, "Yeti Curse." You can change it from now until next Thursday, but it will never go away. Your microphone and computer hate each other. We publish Mosquito Killer that you can add to Audacity as an effect. Mosquito-Killer4.ny Tools > Nyquist Installer. Th...

Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments or sounds.

You should guard against a psychological effect, too. If the sound is really bad, three people listening to it hear three different things.

Koz

That's pretty far gone.

Sometimes you can help a little bit with the telephone filter.

Effect > Filter Curve > Manage > Factory Presets > Telephone > OK.

Koz

Glad to help. Did ACX make a big fuss about you being printed-word published before they publish spoken-word? There is forum posting from someone having the world's worst time navigating the Rights Management and Publication Process. Did you post an Audition and did you have any trouble with it? Did...

Visit the Audition Script tab that contains a brief section of the book—usually one or two pages—to record yourself reading.

...from an existing book. So no more performing a free-form story just to show off your reading prowess and technical conformance.

Did you see an Audition Script Tab?

Koz

no invitation to upload an audition for checking the sound quality. It seems very much as if it's the whole book or nothing. That's not good news. That's an enormous time waster for new readers. Maybe that's the point. The walls in the garden got higher. I'll contact ACX and ask about this Maybe no...

checks it for their basic technical requirements - exactly comparable to Audacity's ACX Check. Good to know. There as a rumor they had a tool like that. It wouldn't do me any good at all. I passed technical specifications and failed because I can't read out loud. https://sheet.zoho.com/sheet/excelv...

Doesn't look good. One of their audiobook examples, "Flirtasaurus" by Erin Mallon, is available on Amazon in paperback.


Koz

an existing projected project written by someone else I noticed that's much more of a concern now. It wasn't when I did it. I think too many people were "volunteering" to read somebody else's book without telling them and Audible/ACX got stuck with copyright issues—and attorneys. Is it a ...

Why are we doing this? What's the show?

If you go much over about two weeks struggling with this, the solution might be stop recording directly onto the computer.

Koz