{"id":64730,"date":"2024-07-06T03:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64730"},"modified":"2024-07-07T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T12:17:04","slug":"dream-quest-of-unknown-kadath-in-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/dream-quest-of-unknown-kadath-in-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath in audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something for the weekend? Here are some listenable choices for hearing an unabridged reading of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath<\/em>, in audiobook.<\/p>\n

* By the venerable HorrorBabble, free on YouTube<\/a>. Four hours. The closest to a British accent.<\/p>\n

* By Dagoth Ur, free on YouTube<\/a>. Three hours and 40 mins. Good, but you may want to de-echo it with iZotope RX 7 and then slow it down a bit in the player. Too fast, too much ballroom echo.<\/p>\n

* As the SFFaudio Podcast<\/em> #354<\/a>, freely online. Nicely paced in five hours, but still a difficult listen in terms of distinguishing the separate words. That may just be down to a variety of American accent unfamiliar to my ear, though. You may have more success. Download available. The discussion came later, in another podcast.<\/p>\n

* In paid-for there’s the HPL Historical Society’s<\/a> Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> audiobook. A clear steady reading by a professional actor. Probably the best choice if you can afford the \u00a340. Too fast for me, at four hours and 23 minutes. For the AIMP player I used a speed of 93%, ‘Voice’ preset in the Equalizer, and a Bass boost.<\/p>\n

* You might even pop the text into a Word .DOC, then make sure there is no text that flows across page-breaks. Then save it to a PDF, and drop that into the Microsoft Edge browser. Edge currently offers sustained text-to-speech reading of a PDF, with Microsoft’s advanced AI TTS voices. These are free in Edge, and would otherwise be paid-for.<\/p>\n

There is, as yet, no Phil Dragash-like unabridged ‘fully voice-worked’ reading, with music and environmental FX. Note that there are now AI sound FX makers to help things along. Another local one was released just the other day, Stable Audio Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something for the weekend? Here are some listenable choices for hearing an unabridged reading of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, …<\/p>\n

Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64730"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64769,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730\/revisions\/64769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}