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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
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As usual, LibriVox recordings range from really good narration to downright horrible. Frequently, there'll be more than one recording for a book; so if one recording is bad, another one might be great. YMMV
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Download the ebook. The audiobook link is in the first few pages.
Beware - the audiobooks are from LibriVox.
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I was looking very recently for an audio of an obscure book called
The Acts of Peter, one of the apocryphal non-canonical "Acts of," books of the Bible. I looked everywhere, but could not find an audio, even for sale, except at LibriVox. And they had just one choice of this book there.
I tried listening to this LibriVox recording. The narrator was not the worst that I had ever heard, but he certainly wasn't the best, either. On top of that, it sounded like he was speaking two or three feet away from the microphone. And the room that he was in was not well suited for acoustics. After listening to it for a few minutes, I ended up deleting the file.
Artificial narration (I don't know what the correct name is for it, I hope that people understand what I'm talking about) will get good enough one of these days to use. But the examples that I've heard lead me to the opinion that it's not quite ready yet for prime time. I was listening to an audio with artificial narration the other day and I ended up giving up on it, too, after a few minutes.
My view of a good narration is one that
you never think about while you're listening to the audio.
I've done my share of bashing LibriVox. But what they lack in quality they have in depth of selection--you can get an audio seemingly of just about everything that has ever been written in English. So, I grudgingly admit that they do fill a need. At least for now.