Audible Adversity
I thought, now that Amazon is offering AI narration for books, it might become easier to find good narrators for my Audibles, but that hasn't turned out to be the case. For whatever reason (that I haven't figured out yet), it's become harder, and that's frustrating.I don't like AI narration for novels because I like voice acting as opposed to just reading the text. I want the different characters to have different voices. I work hard to match things like the narrators' range of styles, accents, and voice age to the manuscript. Thankfully, I have some loyal narrators who have stuck with me and accepted most, if not all, of my offers to narrate a book. Douglas Birk, Jennifer Groberg, Jared Walters, Adam Skousen, Mark Wisehart, and LB Neibaur have been great. Others have dropped out along the way. Right now, I have a book posted on ACX that I'm having a difficult time finding a narrator who fits. South to Freedom is the story of slaves escaping from British owned South Carolina to Spanish owned Florida in 1739 to find freedom. It needs one of the secondary characters to have an African accent. I sent out almost thirty invitations to narrators who listed they could do it, as well as more general accents, and got only one audition. That audition didn't live up to my expectations, and I decided I'd rather not have the book in Audible than to have a subpar offering. Therefore, I'm still looking for someone to produce this novel, which releases on August 1. At this point, all I know to do is keep praying.________________________
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