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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
In order for the audio to be accepted the book must follow 99 percent of the audio so that Amazon's whispersync works. This is actually a shame because you can do a lot with audio that you wouldn't necessarily want to do with the written work. You can add expressions such as shock, laughter, a door slamming--and then you don't need those exact words spoken.
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A book I listened to recently had a funny instance where the voice actor egregiously mispronounced a common word in a character's dialog. I was mentally tut-tutting at such shocking ineptitude, but a few sentences later the second character remarked on the mispronunciation, which I then realized had been deliberate.
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Originally Posted by issybird
I'm still shuddering at the biography of John Quincy Adams where the word "quay" was pronounced "kway." No, I'm not making that up. And it's not even as if the narrator got it wrong once and someone clued him in so he could fix it subsequently. It was consistent throughout the book.
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Well, in the narrator's defense, it is an alternate pronunciation, per Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary:
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Main Entry: quay
Pronunciation: 'kē, 'kā, 'kwā
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