Hey everyone,
Maybe you might even be able to set how the breathing should be done
as well as inflection and gender. In fact it might even be called
the seduction menu. Wow!
On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, James Austin wrote:
Hey Travis,
You're view is respected here as are all of our views. Maybe Apple
will make this a feature that you can turn on and off.
Take care
James
----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Siegel"
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Subject: Re: New voice alex (was VO Leopard features)
Even if they do have other plans for Alex, and I'm sure they do,
I can tell you nothing irritates me more when listening to a book
than to hear the narrator breathing. This includes the quick
breaths between sentences. The really good ones don't do this,
and in my opinion, it makes the listening experience worlds
better. I actually had to can one book because the reader not
only kept taking breaths, but was talking with so much breath, it
sounded like they were trying to seduce you with every line of
dialog, and it wasn't a romance book. While I don't like the
breathing, it is possible to ignore it to a point, but after a
while if it continues, it just becomes too irritating for me. I
much prefer the readers who work breathing into the pauses
between sentences and paragraphs such that I can't hear them, or
perhaps the microphone doesn't pick them up. This for me is by
far more preferrable.
But again, I understand why they're including that, to make it
sound more natural, but as I said, in my opinion, it's
distracting and wholely unnecessary.
So, there's my two cents worth, for what it's worth to anyone who
cares.
Just figured I'd toss out my take on the matter, since I've been
listening to recorded books for more than 30 years. Again, not
that that means anything, only my personal view.
