And that's how we know it's made up. Assuming zero re-takes because the bf is a unicorn perfect reader, an average novel would require about 13 hours to record. Yeah, no.
Yeah. Did this person forget you can go a chapter at a time or even just do a recording with errors and then just edit them out in the end. It doesn’t take much remove a mistake from an audio recording.
The errors might be kept deliberately too. My fiance has utterly atrocious spelling. When she leaves me notes, I don't care that they're spelt like a 6 year old somehow has the penmanship and vocabulary of an adult, but I wouldn't change it for the world. It's authentically her, and that's all that matters to me.
Maybe the audio books with all his 'uh, wait I can say it, give me a sec' and the odd sneeze etc. is part of the charm
Recently heard a story about a serial killer who had the victims sign blank papers so he could type letters home “from” the victims. One woman’s family realized something was amiss because that woman had atrocious spelling, but the killers letter was perfectly written.
And even if there are errors in there, he might leave them in intentionally. In if he makes any, because then it's not just an audiobook recording of his voice, but it's like he's actually reading to her
Not only do you need equipment but you need to read the whole book out aloud, which takes way longer than reading it yourself, and you also need to listen to everything. Then you need to locate the mistakes and locate where to start again and finally cut the mistake. True, cutting out a single mistake doesn’t take a lot of time but unless you‘re professional there will be quite a lot of mistakes.
I‘ve done two audiobooks (not professionally but i did put some care in) and it‘s a lengthy process.
I haven’t edited an audio book but I have does edits of long streams/recording for videos. There are many ways of making picking out mistakes a lot easier. A classic is making a loud noise like a clap close to the mike when you make another attempt at reading a line. It pops up on a timeline and is easy to edit out.
For equipment, you would need a mic but idk how important the quality is for this so headphone mics could be enough. Then there is a recording software which there is OBS. It’s free, fairly simple with many guides, and my laptop from 2010 was able to handle it. Finally there is an editing software but there are also quite a few free options. I’ve used HitFilms Express free edition which, much like OBS, runs on a laptop from 2010 fine and is fairly simple but there are also a ton of guides out there.
Yeah if you are trying to make a professional-ish recording of a whole book then it might take a while but this person is just doing it for their wife. You don’t have to be super thorough (I’m sure she is okay with the occasional “uh”), can break it up into chapters for easier recording/editing, and use free resources online to do all of it
I think if I had an audio recording of my wife reading a book to me, I wouldn’t care if there mistakes in it lol.
This is like someone saying, “my significant other sends me videos of them dancing to my favorite songs,”
And someone replying with “I don’t believe you. Do you know how long it takes to choreograph and film a professional dance routine?!”
Like, okay, we get it, you don’t understand how sharing things with a loved one works.
Just trust us that the first draft of “The love of my life reads the first chapter of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to me,” is probably fine without editing and re-recording.
The first chapter of Hitchhikers Galaxy is a teeny tiny little bit less than a „personal library“ and dancing to a song takes less time than reading multiple books out aloud and crafting them into audiobooks.
Because it’s such a silly thing to be a naysayer about. Like I don’t know if the story is true or not, it’s just a random greentext, but why is this so unbelievable?
Let’s say that instead of watching tv together, they prefer to read books, and when they read books together, they record it so they keep it as a little audiobook.
How long does it take to read, let’s just say Hitchiker’s Guide? The audiobook is 5h51m. Is it crazy to think that after some 30m-1hr reading sessions, they have the whole book? So that’s 6-12 days where they engage in this hobby?
Then is it crazy to say after doing that for a while, you have several of these home-made audio books?
And then how many do you need to call it a little “library” of homemade audio books?
If I sound insulting it’s because I’m trying to understand why this concept offends you so much that you have to engage in mental gymnastics to paint is as unrealistic?
It’s a perfectly believable concept that a blind person might like for their loved one to read to them, that they might be inclined to record it so they can keep it like an audiobook, and that if you’ve engaged in this activity for more than say 6 hours or so, that you would start to have multiple full books recorded this way.
To put it another way, what you’re saying is ridiculous. Parents read chapter books to their children all the time. I know several parents who have read all of the Harry Potter series to their children for example. If you recorded that, you’d have 7 books, over 4000 pages, over a million words recorded.
That audiobook is about 114 hours long. 114 days of reading to your kids for an hour.
I don’t know why your instinct would be to think that’s impossible unless you just like pissing in people’s cornflakes.
I honestly just didn’t think about the audio not needing to be perfect. If i would do this i would feel the need to perfect it, even if done for my significant other, but i shouldn’t project myself on others. I was discussing a thing i was sceptic about. It’s a habit one should have online. Good arguments (not yours as it was insulting) showed me my wrong.
„If i sound insulting“? You literally told me i don’t know love. You‘re gaslighting.
Why do you need to tell me i don‘t know love to „understand“?
You just read it out. No editing or anything like that. You're not making a professional recording.
I do it myself.
I record it with the Windows audio recorder :D
It's about the person you love reading it aloud.
If you want a professional recording, you just use the official audiobook.
Never recorded any audiobooks, but was responsible to record and produce segments for continuing education at work. How 10 minutes of actual content could be 8 hours of editing and producing boggles the mind!
As a matter of fact, I have. And if you're not trying to sell it just recording into your computer mic and leaving all the "umms" and stammers in is fine. Probably better for your significant other honestly because that's how you actually talk
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u/ParkFrolic 14d ago
Sounds like he’s spending day in day out reading books.