LibriVox Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Can We Please Put an End to Overperformed Audiobooks?

  This reminds me that I've always wanted to just record my own versions of audiobook. For years now there's been a site where volunteers are creating free, public domain audiobooks... https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• WhisperSpeech – An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper

  Thank you. Is the Polish collection also a volunteer effort? Link to librivox for others: https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Old git here, if I narrate an old free book where is a good place to upload it?

  Go to Librivox- plenty of opportunities there and they need people like you. Source: 5 months ago

• Could I read books for authors to publish audiobooks for free?

  Check out Librivox you might enjoy doing it. Source: 5 months ago

• What do you do while you are quilting?

  Just FYI for everyone, Librivox is a project to make free, public-domain audiobooks of out-of-copyright books! Source: 5 months ago

• Project Gutenberg releases 5k free audiobooks

  There is also a separate project of humans reading public domain works, called LibreVox: https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game

  Https://libbyapp.com There's also LibriVox, which is mostly a volunteer project. As its volunteers, the quality of the reading can vary widely, but you can sometimes find audio versions of older literature here that can't be found anywhere else. It's also free. https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Please recommend some audiobooks. I only use Libby and my library is missing a lot of books I’d like to read. List included in text

  Try https://librivox.org/ their books are public domain and they are free to download. Source: 10 months ago

• Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

  There are already many more public domain books than people are inclined to read: https://www.gutenberg.org/ https://librivox.org/ many of which form the basis for an education: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34630153 And most of which, when in copyright, paid their authors quite handsomely in terms of royalties. If you believe that books should... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Is there an Arr (Radarr, Sonarr, etc) programm that can download audiobooks?

  My position is that there is tons of free or public domain content out there, probably more than any one person could get through in a lifetime, including audiobooks (for example, check out https://librivox.org/ ). Source: 10 months ago

• Does anyone listen to an audiobook ( in foreign language ) while following along with the text? Is it an efficient way to learn the language ?

  Librivox has open source audiobooks, and is a good source of classical, out of copyright books. Upside is it's free, and the classics in any language can give cultural insights into your TL. Downside is they're outdated, which means vocabulary that may not always be useful in today's world. And with French you'll start speaking with passé simple if you're not careful. But lot's of good stuff there. Source: 11 months ago

• What are the most interesting books you've found on librivox?

  Will be traveling soon and want some audiobooks - curious if the community has discovered any gems in the collection. https://librivox.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• Meta introduces Voicebox: state-of-the-art generative AI model for speech

  Assuming 10 hours a piece, 6k books feels a very achievable dataset. Even Librivox claims 18k books (with many duplicates and hugely varying quality levels). If you wanted to get expansive, you could dig into the podcast archives of BBC, NPR, etc which could potentially yield millions of hours. [0] https://librivox.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Audiobooks, Libby and the Public Library

  Https://librivox.org/ is a site for free audiobooks. The works are in the public domain, no library subscription needed. Has many classics hat you always wanted to read. Source: 11 months ago

• What Marxian concepts would non-Marxists be surprised to learn they probably already accept?

  LibriVox has an audio version I'm listening to, and I think they have text versions, too. And if you're in the U.S., you might check your local library through the Libby app. I think I went with LibriVox because I knew it would take me a long time to read, but I think my library has a few copies available. Source: 12 months ago

• Announcing PodFetch v3.5.0

  Audiobooks are books read aloud. Https://librivox.org/ is a source for libre ones. They come in mp3 or mp4(m4b) format which can be one big file or single chapters. Source: 12 months ago

• How to improve my financial situation?

  Https://librivox.org/ free public domain audio books. Source: 12 months ago

• How Do I Record Books for Loved Ones?

  Also, do check Librovox for free, public domain audiobooks. It won't be your voice, but there are a lot more books there than you could ever read yourself. Source: 12 months ago

• CA libraries with Libby that don't require physically showing up at the branch?

  Some suggestions in this recent post - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/13if0eg/free_library_memberships_for_nonresidents/ If you are interested in books in public domain, check out LibriVox - https://librivox.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Audiobook Subscriptions

  You could try the LibriVox project. https://librivox.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Urdu Audiobooks?

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks, as most libraries in the U.S. Allow you to check-out books (e-books, and audiobooks) online. Where do I listen to Urdu audiobooks? I don't want to listen to stupid Mooroo, and these dumb talk-show hosts. I actually want to be read quality books. Do we even have project like https://librivox.org/ ? I imagine we could simply contribute to LibreVox. The only thing up there right now... Source: 12 months ago