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.
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Topic: Lake of Fire Series on MP3 Audio. (Read 11866 times)