I also listened to a few minutes of your version afterwards to compare and my conclusion is that I prefer the Nonlinear Library’s version by a significant margin. The quality of the text-to-speech software they used by the Nonlinear Library is the best I’ve listened to.
And to be clear, I’m mentioning my preference for their version to your reading here just in case there is anyone else there who hasn’t tried the Nonlinear Library’s readings yet due to having a cached belief that TTS is still really bad, but who actually would enjoy the quality of their readings a lot / enough to want to listen to their content more in the future.
Cool, thanks for doing this! I haven’t had a chance to listen yet (my writing time is currently being spent on writing something new), but I’m glad that someone is doing podcasts for forum posts. For me, at least, I find it a lot easier to find the time to listen than the time to read.
Yeah, that sounds plausible. When editing, I find it really helpful to read my writing out loud. Listening to someone else read it might have many of the same benefits, and some additional ones besides.
I read this story into the EA Forum podcast HERE
The Nonlinear Library also has a reading of this story. I listened to their version (Spotify link and really liked it.
I also listened to a few minutes of your version afterwards to compare and my conclusion is that I prefer the Nonlinear Library’s version by a significant margin. The quality of the text-to-speech software they used by the Nonlinear Library is the best I’ve listened to.
And to be clear, I’m mentioning my preference for their version to your reading here just in case there is anyone else there who hasn’t tried the Nonlinear Library’s readings yet due to having a cached belief that TTS is still really bad, but who actually would enjoy the quality of their readings a lot / enough to want to listen to their content more in the future.
Updated: the audio was a bit low, I boosted the volumes
Cool, thanks for doing this! I haven’t had a chance to listen yet (my writing time is currently being spent on writing something new), but I’m glad that someone is doing podcasts for forum posts. For me, at least, I find it a lot easier to find the time to listen than the time to read.
It might be helpful for your writing to “listen to how people hear it”? (Well not people, just one person, but still…)
Yeah, that sounds plausible. When editing, I find it really helpful to read my writing out loud. Listening to someone else read it might have many of the same benefits, and some additional ones besides.