Section 03 of the register
Audio
Narration for an accessible edition is a delivery of the book rather than a performance of it. Most of the studio’s rules follow from that, and the rest from the fact that a listener cannot see the page being described.
- What it holds
- Voice, pacing and the sense of the sentence, at whatever speed a practised listener chooses to run it.
- What it does not
- The page. Footnotes, tables and captions have to be announced, moved or dropped, and the decision holds for the whole book.
Entries in Audio
Filed by format, not by title- A Recorded Book Is a PerformancePacing, character, and the decision not to act.
- What a Narrator Does With a FootnoteTables, footnotes, captions and diagrams have no obvious spoken form.
- The BoothFoam, a stand, a chair that does not creak, and takes measured in hours per finished hour.
- Synthetic Voices, Honestly AssessedWhere text-to-speech is now genuinely good, where it still fails, and why the answer differs between a thriller and a chemistry textbook.
- Readers Listen FastExperienced listeners run well above natural speaking rate.