VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:12 pm Post subject: Just about had a panic attack!

I've been team narrating a massive beast of an audio textbook on Christian Spirituality (massive amounts of Latin, French, and even African languages), and I have one more hour to narrate. *phew* almost done. I get an email from my editor.

"Hey," he says, "is there a reason that you are narrating all of the female sections and your female counterpart is narrating all the male sections?"

What?!? Now I'm thinking I just narrated almost 20 hours of the WRONG sections of an audiobook. Well....I ran home from dinner, checked everything twice...and I did the sections I was told to narrate. Again. *phew* I didn't mess that one up. That could have been BAD.

melissa eX · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:09 pm Post subject:

Did someone mess up - or was the email from the editor wrong?

Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:29 pm Post subject:

None of the above...the producer just wanted me to read those sections. Strange to have a man narrate a section about feminist studies on spirituality...written by a woman. Hey...I flow with it. It'll be ironic to the listener Smile

Jen Gosnell · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:54 pm Post subject:

That would have totally given me a heart attack too! Glad it wasn't the fiasco it could have turned out to be. Smile

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Bruce · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:53 am Post subject:

Here's an angina inducer for you: read a history book about the state of Virginia, where the first and most influential governor is named Berkeley. Halfway through the book you've said his name 70 times as BERK-lee. You know this is right because you've called a couple of places in Virginia with Berkeley in the name. You know this is how everyone there says it.

Then some historian who's QC'ing the book says no, back then (400 years ago) it was pronounced BARK-lee...it must be changed. (Dayumn!)

The only saving grace was it was a fairly easy change to make, replacing all the BERKs with BARKs, but still..... ugh.

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RAINVO · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:34 am Post subject:

cyclometh · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:54 am Post subject:

I just did one where half the book took place in a city called Cholon. I was pronouncing it "CHO-lahn", when it turns out it's "chu-LUHN".

Oy. I consoled myself with the fact that absent THOSE corrections there were very few other pickups in the entire book.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:18 am Post subject:

About halfway through the book I just completed, I thought to myself, "I'd better double check to confirm that I'm correctly pronouncing the name of the stadium where the team plays its home games." By then I had said the name around 70 times. I grabbed a couple of YouTube clips and listened to the way the ABC and ESPN guys said it. Fortunately, I had it right. Whew!
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AlannaOBrien · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:00 pm Post subject:

Not for voice acting, but when I was in 6th grade I was chosen to recite a poem about Arkansas to the representative of Arkansas who was visiting our school for some reason (I went to school in NY. No clue...)

The poem was about 25 lines long and each line began with the word Arkansas. "Arkansas and its beautiful trees. Arkansas, my home I love. etc etc"

Anyway, being raised Irish by Irish parents, I didn't know my states very well. I stood in front of everyone, my whole school, parents, teachers, this representative, etc etc *chosen* out of everyone and said exactly what the word looks like - Ar-Kansas. Like where Dorothy is from.

Ar- KAN - saw. I'll never forget how to say Ar-KAN-saw....
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sb4vox · Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 18 Location: Mid Atlantic

Jason, we must be on the same team. My current tome is Catholic Theology, thick as mud and jam-packed with Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew ... and a few in English I swear the author made up. Sentences so long they become paragraphs unto themselves ... whew. Almost done, deadline looming ... it's all good!

Steve

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:25 am Post subject:

also non-vo but i'll probably never forget the story a friend of mine told me about her young nephew, who was in 1st grade at the time, just learning to read. he waxed on about pork-uh-lain this and pork-uh-lain that, the history, the types, the end products, etc ... until his mom and aunt asked him for clarification.

turns out he was talking about porcelain.
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