LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

Re:LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks by taylorwc on Saturday February 20, 2016 @09:48PM (#11143057)

University of South Florida has an amazing program called Lit2Go, in which they have public domain books narrated by professional voice actors[0]. I have had mixed results with the quality of librivox recordings, though I very much respect and appreciate people who are willing to attempt it. Lit2go is wonderful quality.

[0] http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

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Re:LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks by ericmo on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:32AM (#11150977)

I've listened to a few pieces of audio in this Lit2Go and also had some mixed quality. This is a very good one: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/220/a-defence-of-free-thinking-in-...

This other one seems to be missing a pop filter during recording, there are a lot of awkward mouth sounds, and the audio is muffled: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/

Still, audio quality is better than LibriVox. Are the recordings also public domain in Lit2Go?

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Re:LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks by taylorwc on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:03AM (#11151198)

Yes, all of the Lit2Go ones are public domain--it's how they are able to legally produce them.

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Re:LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks by unusximmortalis on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:51AM (#11144153)

I did listen to a few and I do not find them as higher quality. Of course there's a high degree of subjectivism as well.

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