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auronluI've been toying with the idea of recording Love Her and Despair as a book on tape.
Once upon a time, I was an amateur bard performing songs and stories. But now, asthma and sinusitis have given me a nasal and breathless delivery. I never could manage reading dialog and action very well; I was better at a folktale delivery where one didn't have to indicate change of speaker.
Option 2 is to use NaturalReader software to create Mp3s artificially. The pronunciation editor is flaky-- rather than let me type phonics, I have to try various misspellings and hope it gets one of them right-- and sometimes it gets the emphasis in a word or sentence incorrect. But on the whole, it does a remarkably good job.
Either way, I have to do a certain amount of editing and processing to get a passable recording, snipping out my stammers and pops or beating on Heather's wonky pronunciations and pacing to the extent that I can.
So here's recordings for Chapter 44 of Love Her and Despair, broken into two chunks since it's a long chapter:
Live recording: Part One | Part Two
Text-to-Speech: Part One | Part Two
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Once upon a time, I was an amateur bard performing songs and stories. But now, asthma and sinusitis have given me a nasal and breathless delivery. I never could manage reading dialog and action very well; I was better at a folktale delivery where one didn't have to indicate change of speaker.
Option 2 is to use NaturalReader software to create Mp3s artificially. The pronunciation editor is flaky-- rather than let me type phonics, I have to try various misspellings and hope it gets one of them right-- and sometimes it gets the emphasis in a word or sentence incorrect. But on the whole, it does a remarkably good job.
Either way, I have to do a certain amount of editing and processing to get a passable recording, snipping out my stammers and pops or beating on Heather's wonky pronunciations and pacing to the extent that I can.
So here's recordings for Chapter 44 of Love Her and Despair, broken into two chunks since it's a long chapter:
Live recording: Part One | Part Two
Text-to-Speech: Part One | Part Two
[Poll #1651551]
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Date: 2010-12-01 04:34 pm (UTC)That being, your own reading isn't quite professional, but I feel your voice is much preferable to the computer, if only because you know how sentences should flow. But if it gets to be too tiring on your voice, I'm sure no one would fault you for falling back on Heather's yummy, glitchy voice. XD Just the fact that you're willing to do some matter of book-on-tape option for your readers is extremely awesome of you, I feel.
(PS: I've seen it before and never mentioned it, but I love that icon.)