If you are like me, you probably wonder how audiobooks get recorded. Vox has done an investigative video on the process, which is probably a lot more detailed than you think.
Remember, they are recording hours, sometimes as high as 20-30 hours per book. They need to make this efficient. Further, reading the text in a monotone voice does nothing for audiobook sales, so inflection is important, which means you need to know the context of the whole section you are reading. Even more, if you do characters with different tones across a whole series, you’ll need to remember their weird names and intentional inflections.
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What has been your favorite audiobook to listen to?
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Dj says
Ok so to answer the question at the end, my all time favorite audiobook(s) is the Mistborn series. Michael Kramer is the narrator and he’s absolutely fantastic. He voices some 30+ different characters and each one is completely different. A couple hours into the book and you can recognize exactly what character is speaking. He reads most of Brandon Sanderson’s books so I’ve probably listened to him read for 300+ hours?
Also, a little disappointed in the video that they didn’t go into more detail about how they choose different voices for different characters and how they’re able to maintain consistency with those voices. I like her voice though!