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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I can't remember a lot of names because I don't see a lot of commercial audiobooks. Sissy Spacek is really good. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/438252/#p438252 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Yeah, Simon Vance also reads Fire and Blood, the Targarian history book, and does a really good job. That neutral tone he used is very good for that kind of stuff.Also, Harry lloyd, the guy who plays Joffri in the TV series, is a very good narrator

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Yeah, Simon Vance also reads Fire and Blood, the Targarian history book, and does a really good job. That neutral tone he used is very good for that kind of stuff. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/438223/#p438223 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Aww man! Michael Cramer and Kate Reading. They're awesome. Not always consistent, but awesome. They also read the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson, and both do their own work. Reading also goes by the name Jennifer Mendenhall, which I believe

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Yep, if you're a Red Dwarf fan, Chris Barrie's readings were like having extra episodes. I stumbled upon Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers one night on the radio back in the 90s. I didn't know the book even existed. It was such an unexpected treat. URL

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I also loved Chris Barrie as a narrator. He narrated the Red Dwarf books after acting in the TV series as Rimmer, and puts enthusiasm into the narration as well as remarkably well-done impressions of the other characters that almost sound true to the voice

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? with Childrens audio books in particular, and especially the disney ones, I like when they are narrated by the actual characters with the original VAs reprising their rolls. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/438159/#p438159 -- Audiogames

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Roy Avers does a great job generally. He really shines when he reads books by Hunter Tompson. like the great shark hunt, so freakin' funny some of those tales, I swear, he does an awesome job of putting you right in the moment!Also the wheel of time

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I really liked the NLS Narrator Roy Avers. He reads the first 3 ASOIAF books as wella s books 4-13 of the wheel of time, and does a great job. Really gets the emotion of the books down, though his character voices aren't super great, but they're still

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Well this topic was about favorite narrators, I didn't think of mentioning TTS voices, but now that we're into it, I read most books with NVDA with eloquence. It's easier for me to grab a book I want to read from bookshare, and read it. I try to hear

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? The team who narrates the Wheel of time and the Stormlight Archive. Michael Cramor and Kate Redding?I'm sure I spelt those names wrong. Oh well. I think they're pretty good. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/438033/#p438033 -- Audiogames

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? William Roberts URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437975/#p437975 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I too have grown to prefer reading ebooks with my screen reader. I only like eloquence though. I couldn't listen to an audio created by a TTS voice. I like to read sentence by sentence to stop the synth from just droning on causing my brain to switch off

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I too have grown to prefer reading ebooks with my screen reader. It took a bit of getting used to, but it's worth it because most books still aren't available in audio, and this is even more the case for non-fiction. Not so long ago, I would have thought

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I can read with TTS much faster than with any other method (literally up to 15 times faster than with braille). I've grown to almost like it more than human narrators because I've had to use it for fanfic, because nobody is narrating that. It's grown on me

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? For example, NLS shouldn't have tried to rethink the magic tree house series. Yes, I read them. I can't just stop and leave holes. I've had to read a lot of them with tts, which I hate for those. The author gives the characters such personality, although

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Honestly, I love audible and like listening to books. I mainly read fantasy and romance. However, one narrator that stuck out was  Simon vance, who read the unhewn throne series. And the other one was tim gerard reynolds. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Has anyone heard R. C. Bray do the martian? To me, it came off a bit better than the one doing that book for the nLS. Over all, I usually like it better when the author reads the book. Usually comes out the way the author pictures it, but you do run

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? A text-to-speech synthesizer? Heh! I only listen to books read by a text-to-speech engine as a last resort. The more human sounding voices make the experience tolerable, but not pleasant. Listening to Eloquence or eSpeak reading a book for leisure? No

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? A text-to-speech synthesizer? Heh! I only listen to books read by a text-to-speech engine as a last resort. The more human sounding voices make the experience tolerable, but not pleasant. Listening to Eloquence or eSpeak reading a book for leisure? No

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? My favorite narrator is Eloquence. I've read millions of words in books and fanfic with Eloquence. I suppose I have to reiterate what other people have said though, Jim Dayle, Luke Daniels, Dick Hill, Tim Curry are all awesome. URL: https

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Bob Askey, and David Palmer, have a similar flat delivery that works for consistencys sake. Yes, it's not great for character voices, but if you just want the material you kind of forget about the voice because it's so consistent. Sanvold isn't bad

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Let's see here. Rupert Degas is awesome! I've only listened to him read the first four Skulduggery Pleasant books and for Lyra's Daemon in His Dark Materials, but he's awesome!Stephen Hogan is also very good. He reads Skulduggery Pleasant books 6-9

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Let's see here. Rupert Degas is awesome! I've only listened to him read the first four Skulduggery Pleasant books and for Lyra's Daemon in His Dark Materials, but he's awesome!Stephen Hogan is also very good. He reads Skulduggery Pleasant books 6-9

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Let's see here. Rupert Degas is awesome! I've only listened to him read the first four Skulduggery Pleasant books and for Lyra's Daemon in His Dark Materials, but he's awesome!Stephen Hogan is also very good. He reads Skulduggery Pleasant books 6-9

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? RNIB had a few dodgy narrators back when its talking books were read by volunteers. It's a bit ungrateful perhaps, seeing as how they were giving up their time free to make books available to people like me, but some of them were pretty funny, and some

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? RNIB had a few dodgy narrators back when its talking books were read by volunteers. It's a bit ungrateful perhaps, seeing as how they were giving up their time free to make books available to people like me, but some of them were pretty funny, and some

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Pam Ward is pretty good, I'll give her that. Although her accent and her method of delivery wander back and forth between homely country and too much anxiety, but that's just me. She's good, but not great.Then there's Lindsey Crouse, or however you

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I like Eric Sandvold too. He is definitely a narrator that adds charm to a fantasy. Some of the pirated library of congress stuff that is floating around was recorded at the wrong speed, and he sounds like a chipmunk, but I still like it. Back when I

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I like Eric Sandvold too. He is definitely a narrator that adds charm to a fantasy. Some of the pirated library of congress stuff that is floating around was recorded at the wrong speed, and he sounds like a chipmunk, but I still like it. Back when I

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Let's see, Jill Fox, Pam Ward, Kristen Allison, Erin Jones, I could go on and on with good narrators. This is just from my previous downloads list, when I didn't have to guess on spelling someone's name. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437641

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Jim dale is probably one of my favorite narratoers. The only books I have heard from him are the Harry Potter series. Ive heard the first book by Fry, and Dale is just better for me. I don't like how Fry pauses in places, and he just reads too slow for my

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Jim dale is probably one of my favorite narratoers. The only books I have heard from him are the Harry Potter series. Ive heard the first book by Fry, and Dale is just better for me. I don't like how Fry pauses in places, and he just reads too slow for my

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Here's a curve ball. What about Mary Pope Osborne? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437609/#p437609 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Well I don't read audiobooks anymore, but when I did I had a lot of favorites. Len cariou, read Michael Connelly's harry bosch books, his narration is very convincing, the only thing I don't like is that his voice is so low that he can't do children's

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I also like Loo Harpenal and Karry Kundif. Both have a background in voice over for assistive technology. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437572/#p437572 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? No argument made. Just a civilized discussion about differing opinions. I think most of those inconsistencies stem from the fact that there were changes made after the movies released, since he reads the American versions of the books. But everybody has

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Not trying to start an argument, but my thing with Jim Dayle is that he's over the top. Some of his pronunciations are inconsistent as well. Yes, he's definitely way, way more energetic than Fry, at least most of the time. I'll give him that. And some

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Jonathan Davis is the best star wars narrator, as far as I'm concerned, though mark Thompson is very good. Sad so many of the star wars books are abridged. I'm just going through my hard drive to spot good narrators. Whoever reads the red queens war series

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? January Lavoy is another good one. I'm not sure if I spelled that right, but same deal. She reads some of the Women's Murder Club books, starting with 11th Hour, and probably some other books, but I'm not exactly sure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? definitely agree on Williamson's version of the Hobbit, but it's a pity it was abridged. Wish he would've actually read LOTR as well.In contrast to Jade, Jim Dale is the voice of HP for me. I've read Fri's versions as wel and Jim Dale just... brings so

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators?

Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Talking of old-time narrators, I thought Nicol Williamson did a fantastic job of The Hobbit. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437301/#p437301 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I also Like Alexander J. Scorby. He was actually one of the first audiobook narrators, back in the 1950s. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437293/#p437293 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? Sometimes, books read by the author sound really great too, so if you find those, give them a try. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/436999/#p436999 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? James Masters. Aka. Spike. Reading the Dresden Filesyes please. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/436962/#p436962 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I have a soft spot for Laury Main. and RIP, Long John Bauldry. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/436958/#p436958 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? A few of my favourites:Frank Muller: I've listened to stuff throughout his career; he could do quiet and grave, and he could do spine-chilling too. Ran the table, really. Was a shame what happened to him.George Guidell: Dry, but actually really effective

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Re: Favorite audiobook narrators? I don't listen to audios as much as I used to, preferring ebooks these days, but when I did listen to lots of them, two of my favourite narrators were Sean Barrett and Frank Muller. I love Frank Muller's reading of Stephen King's Dark Tower. The motorcycle

Favorite audiobook narrators?

Favorite audiobook narrators? Ok, so a lot of us use audiobooks. I want to know some of your favorite narrators, since there are good ones and bad ones everywhere. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/436920/#p436920 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector