Audacity Forum

Has the performer read before? There are several nasty things that can happen to first time readers.

They hate the sound of their voice. "Is that really me? Is the microphone broken?"

The first book of any size is the class on theatrical reading. You can struggle to the end over days and then as a test, play your first chapter. Which may suck. It's not that unusual for First Time Readers to read the first work twice. Only the second one for publication.

Is the performer also the writer? If not, you will need to get used to the ping-pong of submitting for approval before publication. If the two people are in different cities, a file posting service is handy. Maybe something with the word "cloud" in it.

It is Very Strongly Recommended that you export each chapter raw reading as a WAV (Microsoft) as you go. Save it in a safe place away from possible damage. You should never need to read a chapter again because you accidentally destroyed a sound file.

Even though ACX requires posting in MP3, you should do all production in perfect quality WAV. Make their MP3 as a last step.

Koz

I have several microphones to choose from in Windows, one being M-Audio line something I think. I thought I should un-enable the Windows mikes. I'll do the scratch test tomorrow.

My wife, who does the recording, reads the books off the laptop from an organization called EasyBooks on their software so it has to be in front of her.

I'll look at it again and thanks again.

reads the books off the laptop from an organization called EasyBooks on their software so it has to be in front of her.

Can you sense the stormclouds? The EasyBooks hot keys can't conflict with the Audacity hot keys. Audacity does not play well with others to quote the grade school report card.

Do either of you have an iPhone?

Koz

Nope, we both have Android phones. I'll have to look at any conflict with EasyBooks but the same noise is heard in EasyBooks too,

the same noise is heard in EasyBooks too,

Did you do the scratch test to see which microphone you're recording from?

Koz

kozikowski wrote:

the same noise is heard in EasyBooks too,

Did you do the scratch test to see which microphone you're recording from?

Koz

No, not yet. I'll try to get to that today.