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| nonneb Pentaglot Groupie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4549 days ago 80 posts - 173 votes  Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French | Message 9 of 11 10 September 2013 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Helpful advice so far, thanks!
I figure the same thing, which is one of the reasons I'm tempted to start with something that is short or can be divided up into smaller parts. I've done some voiceover work before, but we're talking half an hour of total recorded speaking per project max, not hours like a book. And of course I'm not Garrison Keillor, but I figure if I sounded too unlistenably bad I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get paid to talk.
Very true, and this can be difficult, especially because different listeners want different things. Not that long ago, my wife and I were both listening to Game of Thrones audiobooks in Spanish (separately), and I got really frustrated by the narrator of the second book's intonation and that I couldn't tell which character was speaking by his voice, but my wife thought he was much better than the first book.
That's me listening to the Assimil Ancient Greek course. Ok. Time for the next word. Come on, now. I'm ready... As far as the mic, I have Shure SM58, which is better for live events than recording I think, but I figure it'll sound good enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
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I'd say, pick a style you find easy to listen to yourself, and be as consistent as possible.
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One of the features of Librivox is that potentially, each chapter can be read by a
different person. Because of the complications of arranging this online, and at a distance, and that it's all done by volunteer effort, the choice of people for chapters is somewhat haphazard. But anyway, the variety of readers can be an advantage over a commercial recording, where normally it's only one voice (although I do have some where there are two voices). I think Librivox does a splendid job on the whole, and I certainly wouldn't want to discourage anyone from giving their output a try (and I almost certainly will again myself for some things). Given that the resulting "product" is free, no one has a right to complain, but there again, everyone has a right to choose to use them, or not. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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