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The web-based Pediaphon service uses speech synthesis to generate MP3 audio files and podcasts of Wikipedia articles in different languages. Note that it is highly discouraged to use this software for creating recordings for others as nothing can replace the user's voice and it may also miss words. If this is used, you will not be awarded any ...
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
For help playing Ogg audio, see Help:Media. To request an article to be spoken, see Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests. For all other information, see the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia page. Spoken articles marked with were featured articles at the time of recording. Similarly, spoken articles marked with were good articles at the time of recording.
Guidall says many narrators are "just reading out loud. They don't have an emotional underpinning. There’s a rhythm to speech in terms of what's implied. If it's raining in the book, there’s got to be something about the voice that evokes the rain." [1] Guidall says audiobook narration "expands the author's intent, brings it into an immediacy.
In 1999, Brick began narrating audiobooks and found himself a popular choice for top publishers and authors. After recording some 250 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy," [1] and proclaimed him a "Golden Voice," a reputation solidified by a November 2004 article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. [3]
Michael Kramer is an American audiobook narrator. [1] Kramer has recorded over a hundred audiobooks for trade publishers and has participated in the Library of Congress's Talking Books program. [ 2 ]
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Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace for professional narrators, authors, agents, publishers and rights holders to connect and create audiobooks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ACX was launched by Audible on May 12, 2011 by Don Katz and ran by Jason Ojalvo.