Comments on: Character voices http://librivox.org/2005/09/24/character-voices/ free public domain audiobooks Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:45:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Greg http://librivox.org/2005/09/24/character-voices/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Greg Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=21#comment-132 <p>See, this is why I'm glad to be doing monologue ala Dostoyevsky next. I just can't do voices, as my last reading clearly indicates.</p> See, this is why I’m glad to be doing monologue ala Dostoyevsky next. I just can’t do voices, as my last reading clearly indicates.

]]> By: kristen http://librivox.org/2005/09/24/character-voices/comment-page-1/#comment-133 kristen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=21#comment-133 <p>Voices are challenging, but they are kinda fun, too. </p><p>I have ended up re-recording a lot of the dialogue bits in my readings to make them more consistent. Sometimes I print out the chapter, highlight the characters in different colors and record their speeches non-sequentially (all of Mr. A's dialogue from the story, then all of Ms. B, for example). Then I edit the speeches into place within the main narration. This makes the accents/tones more consistent. A little bit, anyway. I'm not very good at it.</p> Voices are challenging, but they are kinda fun, too.

I have ended up re-recording a lot of the dialogue bits in my readings to make them more consistent. Sometimes I print out the chapter, highlight the characters in different colors and record their speeches non-sequentially (all of Mr. A’s dialogue from the story, then all of Ms. B, for example). Then I edit the speeches into place within the main narration. This makes the accents/tones more consistent. A little bit, anyway. I’m not very good at it.

]]> By: Branko Collin http://librivox.org/2005/09/24/character-voices/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Branko Collin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=21#comment-134 <p>I had a couple of voices. I had to make those different, because from the dialogue itself wasn't always clear who said what. But I figured that I am reading this, not acting it, so I tried to keep any distinction to a minimum. </p><p>In two of three cases I used a high vs. low pitch, and in one I made the bad guy talk slower, as if he was taunting the other guy. (Which he was.)</p> I had a couple of voices. I had to make those different, because from the dialogue itself wasn’t always clear who said what. But I figured that I am reading this, not acting it, so I tried to keep any distinction to a minimum.

In two of three cases I used a high vs. low pitch, and in one I made the bad guy talk slower, as if he was taunting the other guy. (Which he was.)

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