[Studiotalk] To correct or not to correct, that is the question.

[Philip Allen]

 Greetings, Linden.   PK Allen from Hartford, here.  Our reviewing is done concurrently with the recording.  Recording done one day, reviewing done before the next recording session.  The monitor and narrator correct the errors.  The reviewer then reviews the corrections to ensure the insertion is seamless.  Dealing with corrections in small doses seems more manageable than processing an entire book at once.  Also, the concurrent reviewing can nip in the bud any poor practices by the narrator/monitor team.

We do correct all errors large and small when possible. 

Best of luck to you.

PK





> On May 17, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Coffman, Linden <LCoffman at library.IN.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>          
>     Today must be the day for throwing out questions .  After finishing a title, sending it out for review, and then getting it returned I am trying to balance whether I correct the errors and finalize the book or just have it reread.  The  reason I mention this dilemma is I get some books back with just a handful of corrections to make and some others I get back may have as many as 200 to 500 corrections to make. (Some of my reviewers are very, very through!)  I know that according to NLS standards we are to make the recordings as accurate as possible and I can be pretty OCD,  but how far should I go with the editing the mistakes.  (i.e. narrator said “a” instead of “the”, or towards instead of toward).   As I am currently the only one doing the corrections and most of the monitoring as well, this presents me with this challenge, do any of you have any wisdom as to at what point you make the decision to not finish a title?  I hate the thought of having to spend several weeks finalizing one book, when I could be getting several titles done in the same amount of time  However, some of my longer titles will inevitably have more errors so I don’t want to just do short books.?  Suggestions?  Advice?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
>  
> Linden Coffman
> Director
> Indiana Voices
> Indiana State Library
> Talking Book & Braille Library
> 315 West Ohio Street
> Indianapolis, IN 46202
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