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Lake of Fire Series on MP3 Audio.
iamsaves:
Since this is my first time posting to this forum, or any other Christian forum for that matter, I’d like to thank Ray with all my heart for writing and posting his papers on www. bibletruths.com . I came across Ray’s writings a few months ago as a result of some Hebrew language and Biblical names research I was doing on google and after reading only a couple paragraphs I knew I’d never look back. After reading almost everything Ray had on his website (and including most of Mike’s papers as well), and then reading them a second and a third time I determined to give my eyes a break and instead listen to Ray’s words for a while. I emailed Ray and asked if he had any audios of his discussions or interviews but he basically said no, not yet. Anyway, I took some liberty and converted many the papers Ray had published on bibletruths.com to MP3 for my own edification.
I am blessed, I believe, to have a low paying job that offers me 10 to 12 hours per day of relatively boring office work. This means that I also have 8 to 10 hours per day of listening to Ray’s words on my (Nano) MP3 player while at work. Several of my fellow workers listen to music while they work either with headphones or with personal radios and so no one has yet asked me what kind of music I’m listening to.
The methods and technology that I used to generate these MP3 audio files cannot possibly generate perfect audio renditions of Ray's texts as published on his website. Because Ray employed numerous abbreviations, punctuations, and archaic languages like Greek, Hebrew, and Old English in his writings, much of his texts cannot be correctly interpreted by the inexpensive computer reader program that I employed. Errors in pronunciation, inflection, and cadence are occasionally obvious. So as to correct or ameliorate these errors I have two principle methods. First, I can use the pronunciation editor provided by AT&T for their reader voices (I am presently using only using the computer voice of “AT&T Mike�), and second, I can modify the text of Ray's words to facilitate a more natural and correct reading. Because of the volume of text that Ray has written it is most practical for me to employ global search and replace operations to make many of these corrections or modifications. It is likely, therefore, that I will thereby unintentionally, and unknowingly, introduce errors into the texts and audios that I generate. Some of these errors are simple to fix while others are considerably more challenging. I am constantly listening for these human errors and computer reader's errors and correcting them. I will continue to correct and improve these audio files as I listen to them and as time permits. However, I ultimately have no way of knowing the usefulness of these audios unless and until I can receive some feedback from others that may also have an interest in listening to Ray’s words.
I have sent daily emails to Ray for the last week hoping to receive his permission to share these audio files with others but I have as yet to hear back from him. So, I’m wondering what I should do. I wouldn’t want to make these available to anyone, save my wife, without Ray’s permission, and yet I don’t seem to be able to reach him via email to ask his permission.
Any thoughts?
Blessings of Peace and Grace be with you,
Timothy
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
love_magnified:
Freely recieved freely given. By all means, share them! :D
gmik:
Hi. and Welcome. At the bottom of Ray's home page he gives permission to copy etc. Refer back to that for assurance. Also at www.aionos.com they have things to listen and watch.
iamsaves:
--- Quote from: gmik ---Hi. and Welcome. At the bottom of Ray's home page he gives permission to copy etc. Refer back to that for assurance. Also at www.aionos.com they have things to listen and watch.
--- End quote ---
Yes, I had read the statement to which you refer...
"Everyone is welcome to copy the material on this site and freely distribute it to others. You do not need permission from us to do this. All we ask is that you do not in any way, CHANGE, PLAGIARIZE or SELL any material from bible-truths.com."
My concern about the statement above is that in converting the text of Ray's words to audio facsimiles of his words it is necessary for me to edit the text of his words to facilitate the automated computer reading of his words so that the reader can better understand them in the medium of the spoken word. If I were to take Ray at his word, I can only infer from his above statement that I CAN IN NO WAY CHANGE HIS MATERIAL. Not only am I spelling out his abbreviations, altering spellings, altering punctuation, converting Roman Numerals to algebraic numerals, altering the delineation of parenthetical and personal narratives, among many other things, but I am also changing his written word to spoken word. Another concern that I have is that the audios that I’m creating are in no way perfect and that occasional or even frequent errors, omissions, and intelligible utterances are inevitable.
I do appreciate your referral to the website that you mentioned, www.aionos.com , but when I attempted to take a look I found the following:
"Thank you for visiting http://www.aionos.com We are currently re-engineering our website to serve you better. We apologise for the temporary inconvenience"
I suppose that my principle reason in posting this thread in your forum is that I feel I have been tremendously blessed to listen, contemplate, and comprehend Ray’s words and I am hoping that I might share these audios with others that also appreciate Ray’s words.
I’ll be updating and improving these audios as time permits, and I’ll also be including my source text files and technical methods in case any of you get the prompting to help me correct problems in reading and pronunciation.
You’ll find the MP3 files at this website" http://iamsaves.com/
May our Savior's Peace and Grace be with you.
Timothy
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
jerreye:
Cool stuff, Timothy (even though at times it is kind of like listening to a robot from the 70's!). I have been hoping to have Ray's material in audio format for over 2 years now, but he "seems" to be against the idea (??). This is just a thank you note to you for all of your labour. I will be putting these on my iPod to listen to as I work!
Cheers,
Jeremy
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