Book of the New Sun Audiobooks?

Steve Taylor · 15 Jun 2007, 00:13 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: steve.taylor at majitek.com (Steve Taylor)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:13:21 +1000
Subject: (urth) Book of the New Sun Audiobooks?
In-Reply-To: <2c58e76b0706141658m4f0761fbjd0445006cae95b3d at mail.gmail.com>
References: <931576.36291.qm at web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>	<819755.57969.qm at web32407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<2c58e76b0706141658m4f0761fbjd0445006cae95b3d at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4671D9A1.1070308 at majitek.com>

As to the origin of the audiobooks, a wild guess:

A friend showed me a CD he'd bought from somewhere or other of readings 
of H.P. Lovecraft which were entirely computer generated - text fed into 
a text-to-speech program. The results were just about as awful as you'd 
imagine. I can see this as being a great assistive technology for blind 
people who are sick of the relatively restricted pool of available 
audiobooks, but I can't imagine anyone listening to it for any other reason.

Unless they're a *really* big Doctor Who fan and just plain like the 
sound of Daleks talking.

Anyway - just guesswork on my part.

                                             Steve

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net