LOLOL!!! Yeah, I suppose once you ear is attuned....why go slower when you can enjoy that much MORE STORY?? I certainly read as fast as I can visually go because....MORE STORY!!
Ha - listen faster indeed :P As someone with a speed talking 15yo, I've had to develop that skill :P
Interestingly, in the course of recording thus far, I've experimented with how relaxed down I can get the pace of my narration - because it's an industry standard, yk? Audiobooks are paced slowly. I speak very quickly (you'd keep up!), and even my careful reading speed is a bit fast. So I slowed down a couple of chapters from my usual reading pace...and it sucked some vivacity out of my performance. It's probably not that noticeable to most people, but I can hear it, yk?
So I'm a bit faster than the industry standard - if it lets me give a better performance, well, no one is complaining yet... A substantial part of the refinement that's occurring is also more variation in pacing, and I suspect that *that* is much more important in preventing listener-fatigue than speed-per-se.
Arrrh - sorry!! I have had zero sleep, was up all night remastering 16 chapters to be volume consistent for the zip file and the Audiobook file AND I HAVE RECORDING ON THE BRAIN and i'll go away now :D
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Ha - listen faster indeed :P As someone with a speed talking 15yo, I've had to develop that skill :P
Interestingly, in the course of recording thus far, I've experimented with how relaxed down I can get the pace of my narration - because it's an industry standard, yk? Audiobooks are paced slowly. I speak very quickly (you'd keep up!), and even my careful reading speed is a bit fast. So I slowed down a couple of chapters from my usual reading pace...and it sucked some vivacity out of my performance. It's probably not that noticeable to most people, but I can hear it, yk?
So I'm a bit faster than the industry standard - if it lets me give a better performance, well, no one is complaining yet... A substantial part of the refinement that's occurring is also more variation in pacing, and I suspect that *that* is much more important in preventing listener-fatigue than speed-per-se.
Arrrh - sorry!! I have had zero sleep, was up all night remastering 16 chapters to be volume consistent for the zip file and the Audiobook file AND I HAVE RECORDING ON THE BRAIN and i'll go away now :D