[Dtb-talk] voice at the beginning of commercial audio books

[enes]

hi,
well. for fantassy books erik sandvold is an amazing reader
he makes all the imitations right

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From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs at q.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:19 PM
To: "'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] voice at the beginning of commercial audio books

> It is Christin Allison.
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs at Q.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Gilmore
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:32 AM
> To: dtb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Dtb-talk] voice at the beginning of commercial audio books
>
> Along the lines of the voice at the beginning of NLS books talking about 
> how
> it used to be on cassette. I've noticed that as NLS has been adding
> unabridged audio books by Brilliance to its catalog, there's a female 
> voice
> at the beginning reading the title and Library of Congress annotation as
> well as the closing schpiel of when it was put into digital format. I
> believe this female voice to be Martha Harmon Pardi. What do you guys 
> think?
>
> Also, along the lines of Brilliance audio--I love the fact that there's a
> company out there reading the entire book instead of abridging it. I used 
> to
> hate that in the '90's when I'd purchase a book on tape. That's why I love
> NLS. Any reason why NLS is putting more commercial books out there than
> having their readers read them?
>
> The only good audio books that were abridged that I didn't mind purchasing
> were the Star Trek ones because someone from the show would actually read
> it. Plus, it was kind of a kick to hear one member of the cast perform 
> their
> cast mates' characters (e.g., Riker or Crusher do Picard or Worf; Sulu do
> Spock. Only one that was out of place was Scotty trying to do Wof and 
> Data.
> You could tell he'd never seen the show because he read Data like he's a
> robot; so I'm guessing he read the book before they filmed the episode.)
>
> Mike
>
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