[Trainer-Talk] Audio book production questions

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Sarah,
Audio recording is a real art / science. Even with as cheap as things
are.... it will involve a lot... a lot of work. I've done some basic
audio production using Audacity and a $50 microphone and it really adds
up over time.  I know Josh De Lioncourt has several of his books on
Audible and he's a self-publisher I believe. Also blind. I recently
listed to Pilot X by Tom Merrit on Audible; an he self-published on the
Amazon Kindle store as well. So I don't know if there was some sort of
profit sharing mechanism with Audible, a Amazon Company, or if he had to
put some money on the barrell to get them to professionally produce it. 
But if your really wanting to pour some time into it... There's tons of
Podcasting how to's online and Librivox use to have some great
documentation about microphones, setup, editing, and software. I just to
get my feet wet recorded a little 15 minute segment for Librivox just to
see how it went and get some feed back from the editors.  There a group
or company of blind trainers who give a tutorial on using professional
audio editing software; I feel like they were recently on MainMenu and
outlining what they used; I want to say it was Gold Wave or something. 
And the Training was very cost effective; as was the software.. 

I'm pretty positive this episode of Main Menu mentions the training program.
http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/file.php?method=stream&episode=2017-06-16

Hope that helps
-David

On 6/20/2017 3:40 PM, Sarah Harris via Trainer-Talk wrote:
>    Good afternoon. I have self-published the first five books of a series I'm writing and would like to make them available as audio books. What recording software works well with Jaws? Can I edit things such as when pages turn, which takes some time? What microphone and headphones would work? Thank you.        Sarah 
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