h a l f b a k e r yYeah, I wish it made more sense too.
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The people who make audiobooks must be an unimaginative lot, as most of the time they have only one person reading the book out, and this can get confusing if you are hearing long conversations (or if you have the attention span of one of those annoying little dogs, like me), so would it really kill
them to make audio books with actors as separate voices. Or, if you don't like who is reading out an audiobook, you could change the voice, eg from male to female, or deeper voice or higher...
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There are definately different classes of audiobook readers. The best ones are quite good radio actors that use distinct voices. I just finished China Run read quite well by George Guidall. |
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Oh, but + for the idea. Bring back radio plays. |
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I've never listened to an audiobook precisely for this reason (I, too, have the attention span of a small annoying dog). But if they made them with different voices, I'd probably give it a go. |
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<bark> <croak> <meow> <hello! in tadpole speak> |
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<bark><croak><meow> back! [po] |
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I work at a talking book library and am constantly listening
to books on tape. I would much rather have a screen
reader like JAWS read the books to me than an actor.
The difficult thing about listening to an actor's tone of
voice is that it is always just good enough not to allow you
to use your imagination, which is the point of text -- to
allow you to use your imagination. Better even than JAWS
would be if they would employ people who cant read very
well to read the books on tape, reading one word at a
time so that there was very little thespian interpretation.
This would kill two birds with one stone, teaching
litteracy and making literature accessible. |
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AHA! Now we know! A froglet is an annoying little dog. It's been keeping me up nights... : ) |
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I heard "Dune" read this way once, with a narrator and different actors voicing the characters. |
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I heard a version of Hitchiker's Guide that had this, but I believe it was abriged (gasp). |
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just rent the dvd and put a towel over the TV with the sound up. or better yet sit in the closet with the door open slightly so you can still hear the audio. |
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[mumbles in tadpole speak] |
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