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

[Duran, Christopher@CSL]

I feel you pain Linden as I too act as Engineer, Monitor and Reviewer @ this point being how we are just getting off the ground over here in Cali.
I have noticed that in reviewing the books that are in the can, there has been hardly any errors in Narration thus far, I have been lucky.
And the book that I am presently doing I have been the monitor on  and I am pretty conscious of any errors made during recording ( can't have my first book out of the gate be a brick............LOL)
I wish you all the luck and I'm sure you will find the answers.

Christopher Duran
Audio/Visual Assistant
California State Library
(916) 657-3894
Christopher.Duran at library.ca.gov

From: studiotalk <studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org> On Behalf Of Coffman, Linden
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:46 AM
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Subject: [Studiotalk] To correct or not to correct, that is the question.

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
317-232-3683
E-mail: lcoffman at library.in.gov<mailto:lcoffman at library.in.gov>

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