I listened to Dubliners by James Joyce narrated by irish actor Andrew Scott (Moriarty in Sherlock) and it was hands down the best narration I've ever heard.
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Luke Daniels and Andy Serkis both really bring that extra to the books they narrate.
That's the guy! Luke Daniels performs the Magic 2.0 books (i made another comment about this).
Dude could do (maybe does?) voice over work and make bank.
No answer just curious as well, I’d love a good text to speech function. There are so many books I want to “read” but don’t have audiobooks for them, I have a hard time focusing on text for very long, so it hard to get through longer things.
Merlin Sheldrake reading his Entangled Life is one I've listened to numerous times. Delightful, educating. Always uplifting.
His pace is a little slow, so I listen to him at 1.10 or 1.15 speed.
That said, the content carries better with his voice as it is his experiences he's written about. And he's a decent musician
I'm going to be controversial.
I think the best audiobook is text to speech.
I prefer to not filter any stories through an other person. I want the raw data from the book, without any other feelings and impressions added to the original.
AI readings are demonstrably terrible.
More butchery of the English language I've never heard.
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