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I recently started recording some articles I wrote as audio. For the few I have tested, it made a significant difference. Some readers went out of their way to
by ibudiallo 7y ago
I recently started recording some articles I wrote as audio. For the few I have tested, it made a significant difference. Some readers went out of their way to tell me how much they enjoyed the audio version.
Most people get distracted too quickly to finish reading an article. But with audio, the story becomes the distraction that keeps them listening to the end.
- ccozan 7y agoThat is a very interesting observation. It seems that some neural pathways are way shorter over audio ( i guess because we have perfect hearing from birth , unlike vision ), so that the "effort" to read, comprehend and store !text! information is much less. I guess that's the reason we still have classes in schools. Orally teaching is very very old.
- philipkiely 7y agoOn my blog, I auto-generate a narrated version of each article using Amazon Polly. It doesn't sound nearly as good as listening to a person talk (the computerized voice is of about the same quality as Siri or Alexa) but I think its a good middle ground between doing nothing and the investment of time and equipment needed to record and edit my own narrations.
- petercooper 7y agoI would also prefer to hear your tone of voice because it will tell me a lot that your writing can't. For example, if you're saying something slightly contentious (as is common in tech nowadays!) I would be able to tell if you're joking, trying to provoke me, or are playing devil's advocate solely by your tone and the framing.. whereas in the written form, it could be hard to tell.