Vennela Veta - Unedited Part I

Hello folks,

I have made an audio recording of a part of Vennela Veta by Yerramsetti Sai. It runs for about 52 minutes.

Please bear in mind that I started doing this as a test for a just a few minutes, and then continued on to record for nearly an hour. So, there are some background noises initially, and some mistakes in pronunciation, reading, etc. I will correct these, and try to improve the overall quality of production in general.

Now, regarding the copyright. It's obviously owned by Yerramsetti Sai, one of my most favorite writers in Telugu. I made this recording without his permission. I don't intend make any profit out of this effort, and I hope to send him my completed audiobook to him. Perhaps, there is some potential here generate some revenue for him via such audiobooks. I don't see any harm in my effort yet, but please leave me your comments if you disagree.

Yerramsetti Sai can be reached at (I obtained this from a google search):

YERRAMSETTI SAI

Plot 68, L.B.Nagar HYDERABAD AP 500963

(40) 4037781,4031049

Technical details about the recording:

I recorded this audiobook in two ways. I have intially used the portable Sony Digital Audio Recorder, copied the files in Sony's own proprietary format onto my PC, converted them into WAV format using Sony's software (Digital Voice Editor 2). I then started to record directly on my PC using a microphone Creative Recorder software, and ended up with WAV files directly.

I then used Adobe's Audition 1.5 (30 day trial version) to combine all the WAV files together into a single WAV file. I then used Free CD to MP3 Converter 1.5 to convert the WAV file into an MP3 file. I intend to use Audition for editing the recording. I am not expert on Audition, and have never edited any sound file in my life. So, if any of you have more experience on how to do this, please let me know.

Here are the WAV file characteristics:

• Length: 52:19
• Size: 528MB
• Format: PCM
• Frequency: 44.1 KHz
• Channels: 2
• Bit: 16

Here are the MP3 file characteristics:

• Length: 52:19
• Size: 47.9 MB
• Frequency: 44.1 KHz
• Channels: 2
• Channel Mode: MPED 1 Layer 3
• Bit Rate: 128 Kbps
• Compression Ratio: 11 to 1 (9%)

Note: The amplitude of the WAV files generated from Sony recorder was consistently higher (2+ times) than the amplitude for the WAV files recorded directly on the PC. I will normalize them using Audition in my edited release. For now, you need to crank up the volume of your mp3 player when you see a sudden dip in sound at approximately half-way through the recording.