<div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone! <div><br></div><div>We do try to fit the material to the narrator and not just by gender. We have a volunteer who goes through all of our books and fills out a pre-production assessment of the book so that we can have an idea of what is in the book before assigning it. We know we have certain readers who do better with non-fiction vs fiction because they don't handle dialogue well. Some do not handle foreign language well. Some don't have facility with long, complicated sentences. We do a lot of Red Sox books. We like to choose narrators for those books who are sports fans because it comes across in the reading.The style, vocal quality and delivery of the narrator all play into our decision about choosing books for them. We have heard from our patrons that the voice being suited to the material is important to them. </div><div><br></div><div>We usually give our narrators a choice of a couple of books that we think suits their voice best. We've run into problems with narrators choosing their own books because of some of the aforementioned things. We had a recent example of this, where the previous studio manager let one of our narrators do a book they really wanted to do, but it was full of long complicated sentences and foreign language, two things this reader does not handle well. So we ended up with many more corrections to do in post-production which took a lot of time and delayed the release of the book. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing this topic up. 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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Coffman, Linden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LCoffman@library.in.gov" target="_blank">LCoffman@library.in.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question concerning selecting books for narrator and in this case specifically westerns. As I have more females narrators available would you see a problem with having some of them reading westerns. I’ve always felt that the
male voice is what goes best with this genre, but I was wondering if it really matters that much. That also brings up another thought. Does gender matter that much in regards to what you have you narrators reading or not if the book is non-fiction or fiction
told in third person? Haven’t run across any guidelines on this. I’ve just been doing what seems to sound right. Suggestions? Advice?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1f3864">Linden Coffman<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:#385623">Indiana State Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:#385623">Talking Book & Braille Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:#385623">Indianapolis, IN 46202<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:#385623">317-232-3683<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:#385623">E-mail: <a href="mailto:lcoffman@library.in.gov" target="_blank">lcoffman@library.in.gov</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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