Sentences with phrase «as audiobook narrators»

In fact, we listeners have our own celebrity narrators, actors who are better known — and whose voices are certainly more recognizable — as audiobook narrators.

She recently started working as an audiobook narrator for Tantor Media, with Carol J Perry's «Caught Dead Handed,» a Witch City mystery — Cooney's first book - length narration — now available for purchase.

They work directly with the drama departments at those Universities to organize events in which Audibles producers, joined by seasoned narrators, offer a presentation about the challenging and creative medium of audiobook narration, how to find work as an audiobook narrator, and performance tips.

As an Audiobook narrator, I find this quite interesting.

I'm assuming this question refers to my rate as an audiobook narrator.

She's been a professional singer and news anchor and currently works as a video host and voice actor as well as an audiobook narrator.

An interviewer once asked me what I learned while working in information technology that helped me in my profession as an audiobook narrator.

Once you acquire the library cards you need, their benefit to your career as an audiobook narrator can be immeasurable in at least 4 ways:

Not exact matches

Freeman, as is his wont, does a lot of explaining; he's not a character so much as the narrator of the audiobook of your stereo instructions, telling an audience (and, subsequently, us) how the brain works, what it does and doesn't do, and why dolphins have amazing abilities based on their usage of 20 % of their brains.

A best practice, though, is to pay a narrator up front, and keep all rights to your audiobook, as well as all royalties due.

Simon's an author and voice talent and audiobook narrator, as well as a podcaster, running the very popular — RockingSelf Publishing Podcast.

The narrators function as producers — they edit and upload the audiobook for review.

Normally, contributor names are limited to those who made very significant and visible contributions, such as an illustrator for a children's book, an audiobook narrator, a translator, and so on.

Synchronized eBook and audio titles provide access to the professionally recorded voice of the author or narrator as if the eBook and audiobook were published together.

Therefore, the group is dedicated to the discussion of romance audiobooks including romance authors and narrators as well as the audiobook industry in general.

Not every reader or audiobook narrator will hear your words in your head exactly as you wrote them.

I've seen authors argue that narrators shouldn't be making as much on an audiobook as the author — who spent months if not years writing — does.

As a veteran audiobook narrator, I am always impressed when the writing just flows smoothly without choppiness or a staccato pattern.

So remember to download your actual audio file from ACX to get the full feel for the audiobook production before asking your narrator / producer why the audio quality isn't as crisp as you might expect.

I chose to enjoy it as an audiobook and really found the narrator to be engaging and charming, she did a fantastic job of keeping Penn's writing lively.

I'm also a narrator through ACX, the Audiobook Creation Exchange, a subsidiary of Amazon created in 2011 as a sort of matchmaking service between rights holders (authors or publishers) and audiobook producers (narrators and studio professionals like sound enAudiobook Creation Exchange, a subsidiary of Amazon created in 2011 as a sort of matchmaking service between rights holders (authors or publishers) and audiobook producers (narrators and studio professionals like sound enaudiobook producers (narrators and studio professionals like sound engineers.)

If an author wants to go through the rather steep learning curve of audiobook production on their own, they can browse and listen to more than 4000 narrators and send messages to as many as they wish.

To all those who believe Ice - T has had a tough time recording Dungeons and Dragons audiobook, given the wide ranging expletives he used to describe the experience, the rapper has now stated he actually enjoyed his stint as the story narrator.

Audio publishers and audio studios — as well as individual narrators with home studios — can search for titles that interest them and then audition to turn those rights into audiobooks.

We'll coordinate with the narrator and let you know as each chapter of your audiobook is uploaded.

Macmillan Audio narrators include Meryl Streep, Lorelei King, Stanley Tucci, Simon Vance, Gwyneth Paltrow, Katherine Kellgren, Holter Graham, and Cynthia Nixon, as well as President Jimmy Carter, Billy Crystal, Rob Lowe, and Bill O'Reilly, who have read their own audiobooks.

Each time I try to log - out and then register as an audiobook publisher to create a new account, I'm taken directly to my narrator / producer page.

Just as it takes time, focus, coaching, and practice to become a skilled writer, the same is true of becoming a proficient and efficient audiobook narrator.

Most platforms, such as Audiobook Creation Exchange and Infinity Publishing, connect writers and narrators.

ACX's innovative production financing options meant narrators, producers and audio book professionals had the opportunity to audition to produce these Random House titles for distribution as digital audiobooks.

Findaway Voices is an audiobook production service from Findaway built to empower authors and narrators as they perform their crafts and find a global audience.

The Kindle Fire HDX can synchronize Kindle text with companion Audible audiobooks, highlighting the text as it is read by a professional narrator.

As a full - time and Audible Approved audiobook narrator, I love interpreting your words on the printed page and creating a pristine recording that allows today's ultra busyRead More

There are services for hire like the Audiobook Creation Exchange, ACX, which even allows you to create your audiobook for free as long as you share profits with the Audiobook Creation Exchange, ACX, which even allows you to create your audiobook for free as long as you share profits with the audiobook for free as long as you share profits with the narrator.

Last week, I looked at the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX.com) as a matchmaking site between indie authors and narrators.

The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 - inch can synchronize Kindle text with companion Audible audiobooks, which highlights the text as it is being read by a professional narrator.

As the demand for audiobooks increases, so does the need for talented narrators.

The narrator compiled the individual audiobooks that she'd already produced into a file and added some narration to distinguish it as a boxed set, including text such as «Book 1, Chapter 1... Book 2, Chapter 1...» etc. at the beginning of each set.

In answer to another question, she said that the association is seeing an increased number of celebrity narrators at work in audiobooks, some of whom are attached to their own projects (memoirs, etc.) and some of whom are simply able to raise a book's profile, as in the case of Reese Witherspoon's narration of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman for HarperCollins.

(Note: on ACX, narrators are generally referred to as «Producers» because they not only narrate the audio version of your book, but they produce a retail - ready audiobook).

Key findings: Buying habits of Audiobook shoppers prove that British accents are favoured by American listeners according to an Audiobooks.com study Americans are almost three times as likely to buy a book read by a British narrator, and rate British voices higher on average Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of audiobooks in North America, launches...

«How to self - publish audiobooks with ACX,» «Working with a narrator,» «Narrating your own book,» if you fancy doing that, as I have done with one of mine, so far, «Audio programs, and how to sell direct.»

Once you've chosen your audiobook narrator, you may feel as though your side of the work is done.

Royalty share allows you create an audiobook without any upfront costs as long as you agree to split the royalties 50/50 with your narrator.

I have recently contracted with a narrator to produce the first Reed Ferguson mystery, This Doesn't Happen In The Movies, and as I've read more about this move by ACX, I've wondered about how viable it will be for me to move into more audiobook creation.

That's a fancy name for a customized audiobook experience, where Edge will highlight words as the narrator reads them.