RE: The Earthship Chronicles audio book is coming! ... but I need YOUR opinion on my chosen narrator!
Why don´t you do it yourself? Don´t you like your voice in recordings?
I don´t like mine, that´s why I ask.
Your own voice would be the most authentic, also because there is the occasional I-perspective in the book.
If you don´t want to do it yourself, get David Attenborough to do it, that´s the kind of voice you need. 😘
Her voice is a bit too high pitched for my taste, and I also think she speaks a bit too fast.
There is this general advice to speakers:
"If you think your speed is ok, go half of it."
I´m not saying that she needs to do half her speed, but a bit slower.
The reason people like to listen to audio books and podcasts is that they can do other things at the same time, cycling, jogging, ironing etc., so it is necessary that the speaker speaks slowly and clearly enough, so that the listener does not need all his concentrational capacity to follow the audio, but has a few brain cells left for other stuff.
welll.. i did actually try it myself.. i was a good diligant geek and did a tonne of research how best to do it, and did even start making the first chapter to see how it went.
man its hard! my home is not acoustically suited to it, and any noise causes problems, so that already meant i have to do it at 5am or after dark when the birds and bees stop making noise!.. then also my breathing is not good, and with these sensitive mic's it was doubly hard to deal with.. i even found an audi plugin called debreathe which helps to alleviate that problem,, but i soon realised i not only have to read but i have to kind of ACT it out.. and its a pretty skilled and major job.. i think it would take me 2 months and even after that I may not have the quality of audio that i need..
THAT said, i could just GO FOR IT and make it amazing but i havent found that flow..
nice blooming idea to get David Attenborough on the case.. that IS inDEED the kind of voice i need.. i think most of the negative comments are probably right really.. BUT finally i have to decide who my target audience is.. and maybe it is young women rather than men.. Fook knows.. ill meditate on it!
as for the speed, OK, ill have listen again.. i didnt find it fast but I hear what you are sayin
Some of the Yoga guys I know do audio and they have, with modest means, constructed some kind of sound cabin to reduce/eliminate reverberation and disturbing back ground noise.
Not exactly with egg cartons, which would be the punk way, but with some foam and stuff.