The Squeee

Here be Chapter 2 of The Squeee production of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ! Go to listen/download the second chapter from Jellycast! In Chapter 2, Jane has been shut in the Red Room, where once her uncle Reed died, and she's not a happy bunny. Neither am I, I need to check the microphone settings better for next time. Kh. The whole Jane Eyre audiobook can be found at Jellycast: Jane Eyre Audiobook by Traxy

Okay, because I've recently downloaded an audiobook ( Villette by Charlotte Brontë) from LibriVox - and signed up to volunteer at the same site - I decided to try out the recording facilities of Arthur (my laptop - considerably newer than Marvin, my desktop, on which I made my last attempt - which didn't have very good sound quality and the reading was pants too). And boy, they are AWESOME! Windows 7 have better microphone settings (proper gain!) and this computer seems to have a decent onboard soundcard too. And the audio editing software recommended by LibriVox - open source project Audacity - has a good noise reduction tool. It makes my voice sound a bit warbly sometimes, but not a lot. I can live with it. So here we go, a second attempt. This time, I've at least tried to not talk quite as quickly. But umm, still a bit quick maybe? Can't help it. I'll try to slow down in chapter two... Go to listen/download the first chapter from Jellycast! The whole Jan

While I was cat-sitting the other day (her owned ones are on their honeymoon) and waiting for li'l miss puddytat to come back in, I decided to read some "Jane Eyre" aloud to myself. It was the chapter when she first meets Rochester at Thornfield, i.e. the "yes, you do play a little " bit. And from there, I think it's fair to say that the project of recording Jane Eyre as an audio book has been shelved. I got some great and very detailed feedback from a friend through Facebook, which I'll definitely use in future attempts, but I think it'll have to be something a bit easier than JE. The book is incredibly long, uses a lot of words which are difficult even for native English speakers (and I'm not one of those, as it happens) not just to understand, but for me, they're difficult to pronounce. That's okay, though, but the drawn-out prose does bore me... and, which is a very big contributing factor, I'd have to be speaking French .

Might I suggest you have a listen below, where you'll find Chapter 1 of Jane Eyre as a downloadable podcast. It's just something I'm trying out. Please give me feedback on what you think of it and how I can improve it. It's just a beta test, so depending on the comments I get, I might re-record the whole thing. No point in recording all 39 (?) chapters if I'm doing the first one completely wrong! ;) Powered by Podbean.com EDIT 30/8: Thank you to everyone who has given me feedback on the above. Much appreciated! Will be re-recording it as per the feedback I've received. :)