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The Book Before the Booth: How Audiobook Narrators Prep, and What Happens When the Pickup List Arrives
Character lists, pronunciation lists, the 15 minute checkpoint and the pickup list: how audiobook narrators prep a book and fix it.
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Opinion: ARC Raiders Says Actors Would “Go Crazy” Reading Every Line. Have They Met a Voice Actor?
ARC Raiders' audio director says recording every ping line with real actors would drive them "crazy." Voice actors read thousands of tiny lines for phone menus, courses and audiobook pickups every week, and stay sane. The hard part was never the reading. It's the booking, the budget and the contract.
Somewhere right now a voice actor is reading "Press two for billing" for the fourth time, in a slightly warmer way, because the client felt the third one sounded "a bit billing-ish." Nobody has gone crazy yet. Give it till lunch.
So it was hard not to smile at the week's most quotable line about our trade. In Embark Studios' own behind-the-scenes series, The Evolution of ARC Raiders, audio director Bence Pajor explained why the game's ping system, the bit where your character calls out an item or a place when you mark it, leans on voices generated from the cast's recordings. "To record the training data for the ping system becomes too impractical to record every possible version of something," he said. "I mean the actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that."
