Capt. Nemo's Communications - Audio Services

How It Works

Preparation

You begin by filling out the Web request form, describing your project, any special instructions, and giving the urls for the pages to be done. We study the pages to locate any problem areas or questions and send an email with observations and questions. Further discussions are done by email if necessary.

Recording and Editing

Then we record the segments. Longer narrations are usually done in several takes and edited together. The recordings are edited to remove glitches or errors. If there are problems, the recording is re-done until it's right. Then we tighten it up (shorten it) by removing long pauses, some breath noises and so forth.

Compression

If your application calls for raw WAV files the compression step is skipped. For Web page narrations, we compress using voice optimized mp3 compression at 24 or 32 kbps. These bitrates will stream over a 56k modem so anyone can listen to your webpages.

Delivery

The sound files are then delivered to you. They can be emailed but some files are too large for efficient emailing. Instead, we send you an email containing links you can click that will cause your browser to download the files directly from our web server to your desktop. When we deliver files using the web server, we put them up as zip files. There are two reasons for this: 1) A few larger zip files are easier to handle a lot of small mp3's. 2) If the files were placed on the server as mp3's, your browser would attempt to play the files rather than download them. Zipping the files solves the problem.

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