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Originally Posted by moyogi2
I have listened to a couple of hundred audiobooks on my daily commute over the past few years. I don't really care if it is a female voice or a male voice, as long as they read it well, with differentiation so I can tell who is speaking.
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Agreed. I've been listening to audio books since the mid-1980's with Books On Tape. I've had male readers and female readers. Most have been good, a few have been great, some have been acceptable, a few might have been good for a different book, but were a bad fit for the specific book/author, and a couple have been simply awful. There is no correlation between good and gender. That being said, I prefer a male narrator for a lead character who is male, and a female narrator for a lead character who is female. But far more important is the ability of the narrator to forget about acting and TELL ME A STORY.
Which probably explains why I could listen to Donada Peters/Nadia May/Wanda McCaddon read the London Directory.
The same for David Case/Fredrick Davidson/Edward Raleigh.