Peak and Floor levels

TJB · Post by **TJB** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:54 pm

Thanx .... ACX is not user-friendly, as least as far as I'm concerned. For instance, a month ago my initial 15 min test failed because of RSM issues. Since then, you've fixed that. I tried to upload another 15 mins but it doesn't seem to go through ... I've also attempted to upload two complete chapters ... but I have no idea if they went through. Obviously, this is a simple issue ... but not for a simpleton like me.
How do I know WHAT they've received and whether or not I've 'passed'. Aaaarrgh......

Post by **kozikowski** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:55 pm

It was a sentence that ... I skipped over somehow and it was lost.

While reading? People find ways to gussy up their scrips such as double spacing and putting extra spaces between paragraphs. On some stories, they change their voice for different characters and they mark up the scrips to keep track of who they are.

You can put special characters in the words to help you with pronunciation and emphasis, Your English teacher is never going to see this, so it's just for you.

I may be the only person on earth who reads from paper, so my only problem is page turning noises. If you're reading from a device you have to work with the display system and text program. I don't know how people read from a phone, but I guess they do.

Did you get turned down? What was the exact complaint? Post it.

Koz

Post by **kozikowski** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:59 pm

How do I know WHAT they've received and whether or not I've 'passed'.

I think their note about responding to you in five or so business days is a fairy tale. Since the virus scare, everybody on earth is trying to read for audiobooks and I'm not shocked if the response time is going into weeks.

Koz

Post by **kozikowski** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:08 pm

-- A Message to the ACX Community --

Employee Safety – All of our associates are working remotely at this critical time. You may experience delays in response times as we make this transition, but we are striving to maintain an outstanding creative experience.

Koz

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:59 am

I see. You did post a live link.

"Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morgan, the liveried footman called out as they entered...."

I didn't pull it down and inspect it for waveforms but it doesn't appear to have anything theatrical broken. It's a good voice for reading. That explains why the client wanted you.

"His glasses riding on the end of his nose forced him to tilt his head back..."

It's all up to poor, overloaded ACX.

Koz

TJB · Post by **TJB** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:29 pm

Thanx, Koz .... what I can't figure out is whether I'm to submit each completed chapter to ACX singly ... or wait until book is completed and then upload ALL the chapters. I tried to upload the two completed chapters but have no way of knowing if they went through.
Frustrating .....

Since , because of your expert tutoring,I know I'm within acceptable ACX ranges I'm going to go ahead with recording individual chapters, submitting each to the author to see if he has any hiccups, and then just park them all on Dropbox until I learn when (and how) to upload to ACX.

Koz, is that a reasonable approach?

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:43 pm

Without being too much of a voice from the heavens, I would probably wait until one test succeeds. You do still have one pending test, right? The first test failed from simple volume and technical standards issues. We got that. Then you posted a corrected one and that's where it's sitting, waiting for review.

Reading the whole book, besides giving you something to do, runs the risk of failing, and failing in a way that you can't easily correct and so flushing days of work.

There's a more sinister version. I can't prove this, but I strongly suspect they will occasionally complain about "noise" problems, when they really just hated your reading style. We have had posters who were rejected and arrived on the forum with cartoon question marks over their heads because they couldn't resolve the reading with the complaint. We couldn't either, except their presentation was painful to listen to from simple theater problems. One clinically asthmatic reader comes to mind.

How do you tell someone their voice sucks?

Audible is in the business of selling audiobooks and they want a desirable product. They're not in the business of fixing your reading style, microphone, or studio.

Koz

TJB · Post by **TJB** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:12 pm

OK ... WILL WAIT ... BUT HOW DO I KNOW THE UPLOADED TEST WENT THROUGH ... I DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY CONFIRMATION

TJB · Post by **TJB** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:40 pm

Author approved the test and now good to go .... question remains as to whether I submit Chapter at a time or wait until end and then submit all the chapters.

TJB · Post by **TJB** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:01 pm

This seems to be never ending ...

As you know, we already recorded Chapter 1 with opening credits, etc. and put it 'on the shelf' awaiting further instructfions.

So today, the author approved it and we thought we were good to go until we noticed in the new instructions that in the opening credits you do not read any dedications or acknowledgements, etc ......... both of which I recorded.

Short of re-recording the entire Chapter 1, is there a way to go into the wav file and simply delete those two items ... and then save again as a new wav and export again as v2 of Ch 1.

Hope my question makes sense

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