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>be me
>listen to Librivox audiobook, English
>narrator consistently pronounces "malevolent" as "mail-volent"
>"prodigy" as "progidy"
>"eksetera"
>"August" as "o-gust"

>listen to Librivox audiobook, German
>narrator speaks in ridiculous incomprehensible accent like no German accent I have ever heard (native speaker)
>sounds like a fucking human bagpipe

Why do Librivox volunteers do this? Audiobook recording is not a hard job: why do people without a literary grasp on the languages they're narrating choose to record them? Is it a prank? Are they recording audiobooks through fucking make-a-wish?

>> No.16201621

It's free. Either buy a professional audiobook, make your own recording, or get over it

>> No.16201639

>>16201602

This is a similar beef: 99% of oral poetry recordings/videos on YouTube, unless they are well-known poems like "If" that get celebrities, fall into one of three categories:

>1. Read by a wheezy ancient Englishman with over-enunciation.
>2. Read by an Indian with an accent so thick you can barely understand them.
>3. Overlaid with sappy, inspirational, or ambient music that totally ruins the poem, especially Poe for the last type.

For people in category 2, I have to say you give me hope though. Nice that there's so much enthusiasm for your English language heritage, even if it is colonial.

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16201661

>>16201621
>It's free. Either buy a professional audiobook, make your own recording, or get over it
Hey buddy, I'd like to hear you say "et cetera"
https://vocaroo.com/
give it a shot, I'm not paying you, so I expect you to sound like you were lobotomized twenty five seconds ago.

>> No.16201723

>>16201661

https://voca.ro/hxZqnWmet2I

Not OP, judge me.

>> No.16201751

>>16201723
I didn't pay you AND you didn't fuck it up
Librivox BTFO

>> No.16201764

look for stories narrated by Gesine. I think she did some of the Sherlock Holmes stories. her voice really got me worked up.

>> No.16201783

>>16201723
It's "et ketera" brainlet

>> No.16201811

>>16201764
nice taste anon, I got a new crush now

>> No.16201913

>>16201751

https://voca.ro/hxZqnWmet2I

https://voca.ro/oMMA7DiLBAS

https://voca.ro/kakAbZxqYlC

>> No.16202044
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16202044

>DRAMATIS PERSONAE
>Prospero, by an Indian guy with such a heavy accent you suspect he works at the call center your IT support was outsourced to
>Miranda - you think, as it's so muffled she apparently she covered her microphone with a wet felt bag
>Ariel, by a middle-aged woman with a dried-out crackling voice with faint hints of Texan
>Caliban, by a working-class English guy - you can smell the cheap lager through your headphones
>Alonso, by an older Jamaican-sounding guy who is almost certainly high
>Sebastian, by a Canadian teenager whose voice hasn't entirely broken
>Antonio, inexplicably by an older Jewish woman straight from the Bronx
>Ferdinand, by what is probably Ice Cube(from the gang called Niggas With Attitude)
>Gonzalo, by an old man who is stretching at all three vowels so painfully he's probably having a stroke
>This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org.

>> No.16202113

Post your favourite librivox archetype. I'll start.
>the gay drama student who overacts