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Creating an Audiobook – Working with a Narrator

When an audiobook is recorded in a mainstream audiobook production facility, the studio time allocated is normally two hours for each hour of clean finished audio recording. When a narrator is working solo without a producer, generally the time required to record each hour of audio is significantly more. Then proofing, editing and mastering needs to take place.

Creating an Audiobook – A Guide for Authors and Rights Holders

There’s never been a better time for authors and rights holders to bring their work to audio. But where to start? Veteran audiobook .arrator / producer Helen Lloyd brings you a series of articles that aim to de-mystify the process of making an audiobook.

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Recording an Audiobook

When the prep is done it’s time to start recording. Most pro studios estimate that it takes two hours of recording to produce an hour of finished audio, and expect a narrator to complete around three to three and a half hours of finished audio per working day. This takes discipline, concentration and stamina. Of course the schedule can be more flexible when a narrator is recording in their own studio – but the concentration and need for consistency still applies!

An Audiobook Narrator Prepares…

Every narrator finds their own way to deal with the challenges of recording an audiobook, but I suspect if you were to ask twenty narrators twenty questions about how they prepare, you’d probably get twenty different answers! But I think that there are some universal truths that 99% of narrators will observe…

The Challenge of Audiobook Narration

Of course the audiobook narrator is telling a story – but that is really only the beginning. Each person in the book must live vividly in the listener’s imagination as a believable and unique person with a separate and clearly identifiable ‘voice’ that not only fits their character as described by others, but also allows the listener to understand each character’s motivation, feelings and emotions and their role within the story.