In other news, I just finished When Jackals Storm The Walls, and while I don’t find myself frothing to grab up each next volume (they’re a daunting commitment at 20 hours each!) this epic middle-east-coded fantasy is VERY compelling!! @KateReadingVO is 🤌🏽
Two more days!
The audiobook of Mistlight comes out on the 7th, with the incomparable @KateReadingVO narrating!
Very excited for you audiobook folks to hear the next step in Kate and Venn's journey to find the missing aenigma box!
Thank you to @podium_ent for producing it!
"Oh, you've never read The Odyssey???"
Your timing is perfect. Emily Wilson's translation is the best one in literally ages, has that sweet iambic pentameter to give it a "bouncy" feel, & makes dudebros cry that the classic has "gone woke". 😁
Parents, take your kids to all those birthday parties. Here's why.
Once upon a time, a million years ago, in a San Fernando Valley far, far away, my mother had a birthday party and nobody showed. Not a single kid.
With school starting, I wanted to share the story.
A thread 🧵
Today is the day! Thank you so much for your support. I hope you will enjoy this new installment too!
For your copy: books2read.com/LS8-ARoS
(For the Lady Sherlock-curious though, please start at book 1, you will be glad you did 😘)
🎧 New Ep: We’re celebrating #GoldenVoice narrators all this week, and today we’re thrilled to honor @KateReadingVO. Listen to Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discussing Kate’s many talents in the narrator booth. bit.ly/AFMpodcast
.@KateReadingVO has the ability to transform the written word into a compelling listen. Reading’s rich, warm voice, attentive pacing, and ability to inhabit anyone from a young girl to an old man make for transporting listening experiences. #GoldenVoicebit.ly/3XlC7Hn
🎧 Bonus Ep: #GoldenVoice narrator @KateReadingVO joins Jo Reed to discuss her career in audiobook narration. They discuss her process, particularly the importance of embodying both characters & narrative prose, & explore her theater background. bit.ly/AFMpodcast
#GoldenVoice🎙 narrator @KateReadingVO joins host Jo Reed to discuss her career in audiobook narration. She shares the fun & challenges of mastering different voices, & opens up about the changes she's seen in the industry. Tune in below!
bit.ly/3XzBqu9
This would be theft. If it’s a @sagaftra narrator, our union has protections in place, so don’t do it. Librivox narrators are fair game, public domain, clone away!
@librivox@LibriVoxateers
LibriVox readers: did you know your voices were used to train AI speech for Microsoft’s Vall-E, which used Meta’s audio library Librilight, and drew from Librivox narration? 60k hours of narration from 7k readers. Did anyone ask for your permission?
It has been trained on 60,000 hours of English language speech from Meta’s audio library LibriLight.[3]”
“We introduce a new collection of spoken English audio suitable for training speech recognition systems under limited or no supervision.
It is derived from open-source audio books from the LibriVox project. It contains over 60K hours of audio, which is, to our knowledge, the largest freely-available corpus of speech.”
#Librivox#audiobooks#AIspeechtraining#yourvoicewasused