Well, I speed up the playback of my audio books, and I don't find that it keeps me from enjoying a well read book at all. I don't speed it up much, and I'm definitely not trying to crank it up as fast as I can comprehend it, but I do find some readers, even good readers, to be a bit slow. I agree about synthesized speech though, and I also don't speed up my music or movies, but I don't think I'm being hypocritical in this sense.
On 31/08/12 14:40, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Hi Wayne and Chuck, > > I am always amazed when people speed up audio book playback especially when > the readers are as good as most of the Audible readers are. For me a large > part of the enjoyment is the reading itself, of course also the story, but > speeding up a well-read audio book to me would be the same as speeding up > playback on a movie so that instead of the movie being 90 minutes I could > listen to it in 30 or 40 minutes. The same goes for books in electronic > text, I listen to Jaws and Voiceover all day and it's fine for work, but > there is just no way in a thousand years that I listen to a good novel using > a synthesized voice and there isn't a voice out there that is even a tenth > as good as what a good reader can do. But to each his or her own I guess! > > Regards, > Sieghard > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
