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I have nearly no desire to have my book read my the author. They are good at writing, and an audiobook is not simply “reading” the words on the page. Maybe some
by joshstrange 3y ago
I have nearly no desire to have my book read my the author. They are good at writing, and an audiobook is not simply “reading” the words on the page. Maybe something like Descript that the author can use to tweak pronunciation after it’s narrated but I don’t want the author’s voice.
I would like train a model on Allyson Johnson’s voice (narrated the Honor Harrington books) and then use that to re-narrate the 1-2 books in one of the spinoffs (I think it was in the Saganami Island series?) where they used a different narrator (who was horrible).
I also might be interested in using it to clean up the Wheel of Time series where, while it’s the same 2 narrators, they change the pronunciation of various names/words book-to-book. “Moghedien” being the one that stands out most. They pronounce it at least 3 different ways:
* Mo-gid-e-on
* Mo-ga-dean
* Mog-a-din
- kornork 3y agoIt's curious, to me at least, why they didn't just go back and fix those themselves later. The early ones were on CD (or tape?), so maybe that's why.
- joshstrange 3y agoI also wonder that. I'm not an audiobook narrator but if I were I'd need a audio "library" of names/places/etc that I could refer back to before reading a passage with a word I can't remember how to pronounce. The source of that "library" could either be from the author and/or my previous pronunciations. Without that I'd have no idea how I would stay consistent.