dohliam / audio-recording-guidelines

Guidelines for audio recording text narration

Guidelines for audio recording

Below are a series of guidelines for recording audio, developed during the process of creating freely-licensed audio versions of multilingual stories from the African Storybook and Global African Storybook Project collections.

The guidelines are divided into sections for readers and producers, with suggestions for those recording in a studio, as well as those who do not have access to a studio or audio engineer. They are being updated as we go through the process of recording additional audio for several dozen more languages.

Guidelines

Keep in mind that these are guidelines for recording with minimal (and inexpensive) audio equipment, and specifically without access to high-end peripherals, audio engineers, or audio processing tools, and often in the field rather than in a studio. The idea is to maximize quality while minimizing processing time under such conditions.

For producers

Read the guidelines for producers here.

For readers

Read the guidelines for readers here.

Links

• Audio recording guidelines for readers - Global ASP

• Audio recording guidelines for producers - Global ASP

• asp-audio - African Storybook Project Audio

• gasp-audio - Global African Storybook Project Audio

• gsn-audio - GlobalStorybooks.net audio recordings

License

This project is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence.