0024: Hands On Demo Of Pozotron + 6x Bigger Free Trial Link

(The link is
https://www.voheroes.com/get-pozotron )
we are on the downside of the summer
solstice a few days past the longest day
of the year the most days of sunlight of
the year and so as we head towards
December we have fewer and fewer hours
in which to pack all of our work in the
day and so I thought this would be a
great time to give you one of the best
time savers I’ve found when it comes to
my workflow for audiobook recording
it’s the joys of positron and I will
share all that with you plus a six-hour
free trial six times the number of hours
that they normally give for a free trial
just for you for paying attention to
this the vo Heroes podcast well hey
there it’s David H Lawrence the
seventeenth and today I want to show you
positron poz o TR o n what it is is a
service that will find all the errors
that you may have made and may have
missed when you listen back should you
have listened back to the narration that
you did for a chapter in an audio book
it’s designed specifically for audio
book quality control and it’s used by
narrators it’s used by proof errs it’s
used by engineers
it’s used by publishers and you can use
it as well and how it works is pretty
simple what you do is you record your
chapter or passage whatever and then you
upload that audio along with the
manuscript that you read from and then
what positron does is it compares the
two and then produces a list of any
errors that you may have made and not
just a list but an actual marker file
that you can bring back into audacity
and it shows you right where you need to
make the the corrections so it’s really
great let’s show you how it works so I’m
in positron right now and by the way
don’t go to positron comm just yet
because at the end of this I’m gonna
give you a link that will take you to a
very special page that they’ve created
just for me and my clients
we’ll give you six hours of free
positron use rather than just the one
hour that they normally give as a trial
so to get started what we want to do is
create a new project and this is usually
the title of the book that you’re
working on I’m currently working on a
book called burying the lede and yes
it’s spelled led so let’s go get the
manuscript first this is the written
version that I am working from and so
this is burying the lede by Joseph La
Valle and I’m going to upload this to
the site by simply clicking on the
create button so it uploads the file it
happens to be a PDF so it’s really
really fast so now we have burying the
lede and if I click on burying the lede
I now I’m being presented with a screen
that says hey drag and drop your audio
files here to upload automatically I can
also click on that and I will go back up
into the hierarchy here let me go back
to Joseph’s Lavallee where are you there
there we go Joseph Lavallee and then in
my wav files I just finished doing a few
chapters I want to start with chapter 2
I’ve actually already done chapter one
used positron to correct all the errors
so I’m gonna open up chapter 2 it’s
going to upload it and we’ll wait for it
to upload a hundred and eight megabytes
worth of audio and maybe 30 seconds
later we’re just about at the end of the
upload it’s just about finished and when
it’s finished it will then show that
it’s part of this process it also
processes for it the book is going to
process and when we’re done we’re going
to be able to actually marry these two
together so let’s wait for it to take a
look at the wav file and the actual
manuscript it takes a bit of time to do
it maybe a few minutes but what it’s
doing is its transcoding what is in the
audio into what it can recognize as a an
audio file I actually don’t know what
format they use but they take the WAV
file that we’ve uploaded and
transcoded into something else and then
there are four more steps that actually
are involved in this process the second
step is processing the audio to get it
ready to marry with the script and this
is kind of a long step this could take a
few minutes depending upon how long your
audio is this is about a twenty-one and
a half minute long piece and it probably
takes about five minutes to do this step
and then step three it’s now processing
the text it’s getting it all in shape so
it can marry it up with the audio as
well and then in step four it begins the
proofing process this is where it’s
comparing the audio with the manuscript
and finding all kinds of things that you
might miss including things that are to
the world of narration unique in
everyday language you might say that is
is the same as that’s you know
contractions versus the separate words
but when you’re narrating an audiobook
as you know that’s not the case and so
it’s looking for things like that it’s
looking for double words it’s looking
for all kinds of things and that’s what
it’s doing in the proofing right now and
when it’s done with that it is done and
basically you’re looking now at a
finished file ready to go and to look at
and as you can see it found 18
annotations so let’s open the proofing
and find out what I’m in for so it shows
you the script and then on the left-hand
side here there are the annotations the
18 annotations errors that it found or
things that it found that you might want
to check and for each one you have three
options you can say oh no this is not an
error that’s what I meant to say or it’s
minor enough that it’s not a fix like
maybe you missed that I slid into a word
or something like that or it is
something that you need to fix so in
this case it says please check that the
audio starts at the beginning of your
chapter that’s not something that I need
to fix because I know my silences are
correct
so I’m going to mark that as not an
error so the next one here it says pause
detected 2.7 seconds that’s not an error
either because that’s the space between
Durr – when I say chapter 2 and the
beginning which is actually a cxas
standard so I’m gonna mark that is not
an error but the next one is aisle and
it’s down here it says I’ll bet and all
I have to do to actually hear what I
said was click on it and note that it
moves me to that space on the timeline
about a minute and 42 in and only have
to do is hit play I bet there’s more
than one good story there Tony okay so
it caught that I said I bet there’s one
more good story there let’s try it one
more time I can put my cursor anywhere
and start playing from that point them I
bet there’s more than one good yeah
I’m gonna say that’s an error so I’m
gonna mark that as need to fix the next
one let’s go to the next one and see
what it says
pause detected two point two seconds
that’s okay notice this is an actual
space where the pause should be two
point two seconds or so so I’m gonna
mark that as not an error and move to
the next one what does it say here
where’s my next one let’s see okay let’s
let’s play this and see what happens
it says inserted word inserted yearing
during tony’s sophomore year in high
school
ah as he his mother and his sister were
eating pasta and salads at the kitchen
table so I don’t know what would go in
there but I can go to the manuscript and
see what it says let’s see where is that
Tony and Rita yeah okay
so event during Tony’s sophomore what in
high school and I actually corrected
that for the author it looks to me like
there’s a word missing here the event
that most changed their both their lives
occurred one evening during Tony’s
sophomore in high school it should be
sophomore year so I’m just gonna mark
that as not an error as being inserted
properly see how it handles all these
different situations it’s looking for
something it uses pronunciation it uses
syntax it uses double it looks for
double words it looks for contractions
let’s see what happens when I’m saying
the bedroom
alright let’s see what did I say here he
and Rita
each had a bathroom on the second floor
yeah la made a mistake so I’m going to
mark this as a need to fix error and
then right down here is the next one
let’s see what this one is
let’s see what I said here at like high
school he had decided to stay down a
tenth so I should have said he decided
to stay so I’m going to mark this as
need to fix as well and as you can see I
can work all the way through all of the
errors that it found now if I had done
this myself likely I would not have I
would not have found some of the things
that I said because that’s what I saw
when I read it and that’s what I said
when I saw what I read so I’m gonna go
through all of these I don’t need to
show you the the the nature of
correcting all these and I’ll get the
ones that I need to do and then I’ll
come back here and I’ll show you which
ones are done I’ll be at the bottom and
be at the end so hang on one second let
me take care of business all right so I
am finished here I just wrapped up the
last few things I needed to record some
most of them were just simply moments of
silence that it detected but that were
part of a cxas requirements so let’s go
back to the project page and now that
it’s all finished it says all checked we
have six pickups out of those 18 let’s
download what’s called the pickup packet
when we download that pickup packet it’s
so cool we can download a number of
different things but the proofing report
the narrator proof sheet book full text
but what we really want is the pickup
packet and we want it to be relative to
the start of each audio file rather than
to the start of the entire project that
way we can get chapter by chapter
reports on what we’re doing and the
narration content we want the current
sentence that’s all well these are the
standards so I’m just gonna download
this and notice it downloads here
basically once it’s done it’s actually
pretty quick because what its
downloading is a list let’s show it in
the finder it’s in my
it’s in my downloads folder but I’m
gonna drag it into my project folder
that I have on my hard drive for the
project itself now when I double-click
on this when I open this zip file
something really cool is going to be
shown see this index.html file right
here it’s just index dot HTML that’s
actually a web page and these mp3s are
the audio of all the things that I need
to fix in there in their current state
so they’re not in the corrected State
obviously because I haven’t corrected
them but watch what happens if I go over
here and I choose a new tab and I just
drag this document on to my browser it
opens up this beautiful locally produced
web page that shows all of the errors
that I need to fix and it shows the copy
that I need to read so if I play this
I’ll hear my original Toni decided he
would walk over to the square one day
soon and get to know them I bet there’s
more than one good story there Toni
ok so that’s the deal I need to say I’ll
bet now here’s one more thing that you
download that’s really really cool I’m
gonna drop this menu again for the
import/export and I’m going to export da
markers and what that means is digital
audio workstation markers and it creates
da markers for any application you might
be using and we use audacity and it
creates them for audacity and reaper and
audition and pro tools
we want audacity and we want it relative
to the start of each audio file once
again so these doll markers are really
cool watch what happens when I download
these doll markers we open this up we
show it it’s a very short file it’s just
a text file we’ll show it in the
downloads folder we’ll drag it over into
the burying the lede project folder that
I have on my hard drive and when I unzip
this what I get is a text file and if I
show you the preview of this text file
it’s very short there’s six lines and
each one of those lines is an error and
watch what happens I’m gonna go over to
audacity this is the original wav file
that I pulled in this is what I recorded
this has all the errors in it but watch
what happens if I go up here to the file
menu and choose import and then choose
labels I’m gonna go to my burying the
lede folder positron packet there is
that text file that I talked about
chapter two burying lead text watch what
happens when I open it oh look it’s all
of my corrections placed exactly in the
track where I need them to be timewise
right so let’s go into this in a little
bit more detail I’m gonna zoom in on the
very first one that I’ve got now one
thing that you want to pay attention to
is I’m gonna actually do all my pickups
from left to right and the way to do
that we’ve told you in the past to do
your pickups from the end of the track
to the beginning because if you happen
to have to delete something and you’re
doing it from left to right if you
delete this watch what happens to the
label where the error is it stays where
it is but the other audio is removed and
so now all of those errors are mistimed
but with this with this marker track and
with the audio track here if I go to the
tracks menu and I choose either lock
tracks or sync lock tracks it depends on
what version of audacity you’re using
now if I delete something notice that
it’s it’s locked
to the bottom track and it’s gonna
delete that part as well and all of the
timing will stay the same let me undo
that let me know and let me just hear
what’s going on here I bet there’s more
than one good story there Tony thought
all right let’s do a pickup on that do
new and it’s all bet there’s more than
one good story there let me play it one
more time just so that I know what I
said I bet there’s more than one good
story there Tony thought I’ll bet
there’s more than one good story there
Tony thought
all right I think that’s pretty good I’m
gonna grab that copy it and I’m gonna go
back over here I’m gonna grab this and
paste it in let’s hear how that goes and
get to know them I’ll bet there’s more
than one good story there Tony thought
but not today so it looks pretty good I
like that and I’ll move on to the next
one I can just move on down the line to
wherever the next pickup is these the
bathroom won and all that so that’s how
easy this all is for positron and the
good news is is we’ve worked out a deal
for you when you start with positron and
you go to their pricing they give you a
free one-hour trial when you sign up now
one hour is okay you can do a few
chapters but I went to them and I said
look my people are professionals my
people are doing this for a living or a
hefty side hustle I want more can you do
anything for me and they said yeah sure
we can and they came back with something
that I was personally blown away from
instead of one-hour free trial six hours
you can do an entire medium length book
when you try it for free but don’t go to
positron comm instead go to the link
that is showing on your screen right now
that ends in get – positron you go there
and you’re not only gonna get the free
six hours but you’re also going to be
given options that are less expensive
than $9.00 per finished hour now $9.00
per finished hour is pretty good and be
the the finished our the the thing that
we just did was 21 minutes long that
would be about three bucks to be able to
create a really nice error-free item to
send off to your right shoulder or your
producer or your publisher whoever
you’re working for but you’re getting
you’re getting six hours and the
programs that they have for you as well
our less expensive than $9.00 per
finished our depends on what you pick so
go to the URL on the screen
that ends in get – positron and check it
out it’s absolutely free you can do
probably an entire book with the trial
that the that we negotiated for you and
that’s what I do when I want to look my
best and I’ve made it part of my stack
again it’s optional but it’s very highly
recommended I hope this helps I’m David
H Lawrence the seventeenth I thank you
so much for watching and for listening
and I’ll see you soon. The link again is
https://www.voheroes.com/get-pozotron