There are various types of flaws in this rendering, some correctible, some not--at least not very easily or conveniently. Certain errors persist because I recall they exist, but not where. Now, I don't have the time or inclination to reaudit all 120 hours of the reading in order to flush them out. You are welcome to try, or even to email me, at the address below, their nature and whereabouts. I will collect such reports and maybe someday repair the faults. Better yet, do it yourself (See below)! There are a very, very few errors of garbled audio that arose during the conversion to .mp3. I do not believe they inhibit understanding of the contextual passage. But once again, you tell me. Other errors arise because the programs were not smart enough to recognize and discriminate among some of the tricky ambiguities and homonymic mimeses of English. Sometimes "lives" is pronounced incorrectly relative to context, noun versus verb. Other examples in this category are "minute", "rebel(s)", "lead", "read", and "present". There are occasional renderings of "...part i" -(roman numeral one) as "...part eye". I tried to eliminate that by reformatting the source text, but obviously missed in some cases. The historian Procopius' name is occasionally rendered "Procompanyius" because of an obstinacy about expanding abbreviations I could not completely--Gibbon's favorite term--extirpate. In some few other cases there are obviously erroneous or awkward pronunciations of words, especially of French proper and place names. Frankly, I'm proud the little beasts do as well as they do in the continental tongue. Let me say that although I tried assiduously, and even systematically to eliminate errors (having written a program that scanned the source text for words "new" to the speech software), the product of Gibbon's twenty year labor is in itself an empire of English, in which I have yet to travel every byway. Each successive chapter contained literally many hundreds of new words that had not appeared even in his own previous chapters! Finally, some deep errors arise because the source text itself, Project Gutenberg's Gibbon, contains some flaws. In sum, what began in levity, then developed into a protracted, private, and informal labor of love, is now offered to the public as a first draft, a Gutenberg "xxxxx10.mp3", mostly correct, of that rare entertainment, dramatic scholarship, rendered into the charismatic medium of the spoken word. The justification of its unredeemed state is that for now, granting the superiority of perfection, if available, there is yet much value in any reasonably integral creation especially if the alternative is nothing. To anyone who reads this, listens to the material, finds blemishes, and cares, I will be happy to send you, in your thousands, the software, gratis save cost of materials and shipping, enabling you to make your own corrections, which you can then share with us all.