Why is there a background sound?

Once you start reading, you can’t change anything. ACX wants their chapters and segments to match. The beginning and ends of the book should match, too. There is a New User effect. You start reading the book an amateur and you finish a seasoned professional. That’s when you realize how bad the beginning of the book is and want to read parts of it again.

Some of the changes and settings we’re using are married to your room. If you change the room, we may need to design new settings.

Now you know what a nice, stable, quiet studio does.

There is a way to send a short voice test to ACX for evaluation. Read through this post.

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-send-a-test-to-acx/49588/1

Koz