What makes a good audiobook narrator?
Description
What makes a good audiobook narrator? Is it enough to have a good voice? To be a good reader? A good actor? Something else? What about on the side of the reader? There are certainly things that make the experience of listening to an audiobook narrator better or worse for people. But are some of these things objective and common to everyone? Or is this a totally subjective preference? Join us as we dive into this topic!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Blame It On The Brontes by Annie Sereno
Adam Bede by George Eliot
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Sources:
- Luis Daniel Gonzalez, How to Become an Audiobook Narrator, audible blog, August 23, 2021, https://www.audible.com/blog/article-how-to-become-an-audiobook-narrator.
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Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves.
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