0681 – Audiobook Narration

2022.11.12 – 0681 – Audiobook Narration

Audiobook narration

Audiobooks have become increasingly popular[1] as people consume books while commuting, exercising or doing chores and with the ease of listening via smartphones and Bluetooth.

There are broadly two different types of books: non-fiction and fiction, each with different skills required of the voice actor and also some cross-over themes.

Narrating your memoirs

Memoirs are not quite fiction or non-fiction, and it makes perfect sense for you to narrate your own ‘story of your life’. After all, you’re the expert on what happened!

Use your text more as a prompt than a script: live your words as you say them as though the memories are just occurring to you, and imagine you are telling someone what happened, someone who is sitting right there in front of you.

[1] 2019 figures suggested that 50% of Americans had listened to an audiobook (Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamrowe1/2019/04/27/for-the-first-time-50-of-americans-have-listened-to-an-audiobook/#46157dc97d52) 

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