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Audible Member Rant
Ok so if anyone has any kind of contacts over at Audible" PLEASE SEND THEM THIS MESSAGE.
I am so sick of STUPID Authors like women who write a book with a Male lead character but insist on having a woman narrate the book!! STOP IT! Or the other way around a Male Author who's lead is a woman then has a man narrating it STOP IT!! And while I'm on the rant, If you as an author write a book about a lead character that is like in Los Angeles or New York DON'T have a bloody Englishman narrate the book!!! OR Someone with a Southern Accent!! PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESS if you want us to keep paying for your Audible Books!!! |
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the rook, bossing Never.
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Mostly it's not the authors, but either Audible or a publisher. It is stupid.
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Can't say I've ever come across it. Or noticed it if I have. Regardless, I can't see how the author's gender would enter into it.
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I do have to agree that if it is single person in the opposite gender of the narrator, that can bug me and draw me out of the story. I am picky with narration in general. I can't do strong English accents for a full book, just a personal thing because it's too unfamiliar to me and keeps drawing me out of the book. There have been exceptions where it worked.
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Alexa can read audiobooks,
you can choose male or female Alexa. Changed ours to male as I was fed up hearing the default female. Change it in the Alexa app. Probably you can set it by individual device so you can have both the sexes Not tested with audible specifically, only with general whats the waether and find my phone..?. |
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I don't think the sex of the Author matters but the gender of the narrator needs to match the main character. Sometimes a man will change voice for a female small part in the ebook but I like when there are several narrators in a book. |
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?? When i use alexa have he voice in the actual audible, not the alexa voice? |
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i think that when alexa reads an audible book, which does work, you get a playback of the original file, like playing back a music file.
so changing the alexa voice will only impact on reading non-audible audiobooks. that also works and is quite convincing though pretty sure its only for where you bought the kindle book from amazon. i did test it all, but my wife is the audiobook user and she was not interested - she would rather just use an app on her phone. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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fair point.
PS nessun dorma may be a stretch, but alexa does actually SING happy birthday |
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