Your voice, like a thousand times over. You've got intonations the computer can't replicate. Just in that sample, I heard undertones of emotion in the dialogue that I didn't detect when I read it. Not for the fault of the writing, but there definitely exists an appeal in listening to it.
Definitely agree with the consensus of real human voice. The glitches and lack of emotion on the computer voice jumped out at me right away -- I couldn't listen for more than a few seconds.
Don't knock your reading skills, either; your bardic retelling of FFX is still one of my favorite fanworks ever.
Pippin's Song in Elvish -- my translation ("Home is behind / the world ahead / and there are many paths to tread / through shadows til the edge of night / until the stars are all alight / mist and shadows / cloud and shade / all shall fade, all shall fade" )
It makes me wistful to hear those recordings now, even though I was embarrassed about them back then. I had no training, and I had crackle pops and made all kinds of amateur mistakes, but dammit, I had a pleasant voice once!
These are lovely, particularly the story, and I enjoyed them, so thank for the links! But I'm not hearing whatever comparative faults I'm supposed to be hearing in the newer readings. I like them just as well.
(Now I'm sure you're going to be tempted to enumerate them ;) but many years of choral singing lead me to advise you not to do so. Of course the performer is going to know where the flaws are, but the audience doesn't know what to listen for, and chances are they went right by... unless you point them out.)
Also, I often prefer audiobooks of author's reading their own work, even over professional actors/readers, because they know things about the intended emotional impact that a reader might not.
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Don't knock your reading skills, either; your bardic retelling of FFX is still one of my favorite fanworks ever.
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This is what I've lost. I had lousy mikes and too much reverb, but LISTEN to what my voice was like before all those years of sinus infections:
SIlly little song written for the bards' guild in Rivendell in the style of The Hobbit elves
Pippin's Song in Elvish -- my translation ("Home is behind / the world ahead / and there are many paths to tread / through shadows til the edge of night / until the stars are all alight / mist and shadows / cloud and shade / all shall fade, all shall fade" )
Bread and Roses recorded in 1996 in a noisy apartment
Tale of Two Jackals - my retelling of an ancient Egyptian folktale
It makes me wistful to hear those recordings now, even though I was embarrassed about them back then. I had no training, and I had crackle pops and made all kinds of amateur mistakes, but dammit, I had a pleasant voice once!
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(Now I'm sure you're going to be tempted to enumerate them ;) but many years of choral singing lead me to advise you not to do so. Of course the performer is going to know where the flaws are, but the audience doesn't know what to listen for, and chances are they went right by... unless you point them out.)
Also, I often prefer audiobooks of author's reading their own work, even over professional actors/readers, because they know things about the intended emotional impact that a reader might not.
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