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]]> by: Branko Collin http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-39 Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:44:04 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-39 One more question. I notice that other files are 25 MB or less, but my 55 minute recording is somewhere in the vincinity of 50 MB. Do you save at a lower sampling frequency, bit depth, bit rate? One more question. I notice that other files are 25 MB or less, but my 55 minute recording is somewhere in the vincinity of 50 MB. Do you save at a lower sampling frequency, bit depth, bit rate?

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]]> by: Administrator http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-30 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:10:38 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-30 branko! -firstly, sorry, you were blocked by the spamguard (not sure why) but freed just now. -i asked fling93 to do chap 3 instead, because andrew needs to get his set-up sorted and i'm trying to avoid delays. -as for the rest: relax, read it as best you can, and know that you've done a great service to personkind...there may be better readers and may be worse. but we're all volunteers doing the best we can. stiff upper lip, soldier on, tally-ho etc. look forward to hearing chap 5!! best, Hugh. branko!
-firstly, sorry, you were blocked by the spamguard (not sure why) but freed just now.
-i asked fling93 to do chap 3 instead, because andrew needs to get his set-up sorted and i’m trying to avoid delays.
-as for the rest: relax, read it as best you can, and know that you’ve done a great service to personkind…there may be better readers and may be worse. but we’re all volunteers doing the best we can. stiff upper lip, soldier on, tally-ho etc. look forward to hearing chap 5!!
best,
Hugh.

]]> by: Branko Collin http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-27 Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:25:28 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/project-background/#comment-27 Wasn't Andrew going to do chapter 3, and fling93 chapter 4? I ask this with some apprehension, as I am only half way chapter 5. Here are some of the problems I am experiencing: - I suddenly realized I don't speak a word of English, none! - Everytime I feel like reading, I swallow a mouthful of milk or chocolate milk to get me going--oops! - I live in a city, which means that a very deaf, very 70-year old neighbour of what seems Chinese origin must broadcast what seem the speeches of chairman Mao till deep in the night. - I live in a city, which means that pizza delivery boys race their mopeds across town, but mainly through my street, at all manner of hours. - The cat excercises its freedom of speech, right near the end of a complex, 500 word sentence. - Ah yes, the verbious, cascade-like locquacity of the well-educated, well-groomed literate man of the end of the nineteenth century, convinced, as some of them were, although others--one need only to think of that marvelous North-American master of wily wit, Mark Twain--, disapproved of the practice, that a sentence... where was I going with this? - The author is either a facetious git, or has a really twisted sense of humour. Either way, of half the sentences I have no idea what he is trying to say, and thus no idea how to approach them. Yours trudgingonningly, Wasn’t Andrew going to do chapter 3, and fling93 chapter 4? I ask this with some apprehension, as I am only half way chapter 5.

Here are some of the problems I am experiencing:
- I suddenly realized I don’t speak a word of English, none!
- Everytime I feel like reading, I swallow a mouthful of milk or chocolate milk to get me going–oops!
- I live in a city, which means that a very deaf, very 70-year old neighbour of what seems Chinese origin must broadcast what seem the speeches of chairman Mao till deep in the night.
- I live in a city, which means that pizza delivery boys race their mopeds across town, but mainly through my street, at all manner of hours.
- The cat excercises its freedom of speech, right near the end of a complex, 500 word sentence.
- Ah yes, the verbious, cascade-like locquacity of the well-educated, well-groomed literate man of the end of the nineteenth century, convinced, as some of them were, although others–one need only to think of that marvelous North-American master of wily wit, Mark Twain–, disapproved of the practice, that a sentence… where was I going with this?
- The author is either a facetious git, or has a really twisted sense of humour. Either way, of half the sentences I have no idea what he is trying to say, and thus no idea how to approach them.

Yours trudgingonningly,

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