Do you ever listen to them? If you do is it usually one narrator or more?
I always felt it'd be weird listening to a book and I would never be able to concentrate on it.
I've recently downloaded audio book of The Hobbit, and the BBC's LoTR,
it's been helping me to fall asleep, but I dunno if I'd be able to just sit down during daytime and listen to it

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Originally posted by bananas Do you ever listen to them?

All the time. I even bought a text-to-speech thingy so I could listen to the books I've got on pdf/txt.

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Originally posted by bananas If you do is it usually one narrator or more?

One. I don't think I've ever heard an audiobook with multiple narrators.

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I figured if I had any responses to this thread it would come from you

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Originally posted by Lira All the time. I even bought a text-to-speech thingy so I could listen to the books I've got on pdf/txt.

doesn't that feel weird? I imagine it sounds like a robot

edit: then again I bet you mostly listen to academic books, which are robotic

Some of the voices do sound clunky and unnatural, but the ones this program offers are actually quite good:

www.ivona.com

The two only voices I use (Amy for RP and Joey for General American) don't sound at all artificial. Brian (yet another English voice) sometimes talks as if he was dictating notes during a colonoscopy, and I don't really care much for the other voices. I want to try the new Aussie voice to see if it sounds as dreamy as Stu's

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Pick up the phone mate, come on

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Hmm, I might try that out, thank you.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Pick up the phone mate, come on

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Pick up the phone mate, come on

I totally need a "Read the message mate, come on" to match the phone ring

I used to have zeJayman reading a text as my alarm tone, but the background music I mixed it with terrified Kaoru

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Originally posted by Lira I totally need a "Read the message mate, come on" to match the phone ring

I'm charging my mp3 player now, I'll do it in the next couple of days

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Pick up the phone mate, come on

Audio books: no, never. Dunno why. For me a book is to be read. I can't and don't want to concentrate on it when it's read to me. The whole thing feels somehow wrong, but it's probably just a matter of getting used to it.

Oh wait... I do know why I don't like them. Cause it's the opposite of what Lira says!

Also, this seems to be the proper place to repost this:

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^ movie will be released in 2012. Directed by the same guy that made Phantasm. wtf?!

trailer
http://www.cracked.com/article_1947...er-trailer.html

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Yeah, but the trailer really doesn't look so promising to me. It somehow fails to convey all the -awesomeness of the book.

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