Partner Charlesberry Productions was asked by Houghton Mifflin Company to record chapter summaries for its Social Studies program in six languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Khmer and Hmong. It would be a daunting task- approximately three hundred hours of finished audio would be required.

Charlesberry's Susan Boer did an outstanding job of locating professional narrators in the Asian languages by searching through the leading universities in the region- Harvard, MIT and Brown. Because of the difficulties inherent in recording a language that the engineer and producer can neither read nor speak, readers in these languages were divided into pairs, with one of the pairs "producing" the other. All edits were done during the recording- when a reader made a mistake the correct word was quickly punched in on the Sonic Solutions. This turned out to be an excellent way to work. The only drawback was the tremendous quantity of sound files that needed archiving- in excess of 100,000. A high capacity Digital Linear Tape drive was purchased for the project, and served perfectly.

Because of the deadline, Soundscape's Studio B was booked seven days a week. Two producers- Susan Boer and Charlesberry's Kit Morse- alternated as various teams of readers came in. Safety DAT's were carefully recorded and logged. As the months passed, goals were met, original music was mixed in; masters were prepared and shipped. The project ended with Soundscape and Charlesberry on schedule and within budget.