How audiobooks are recorded

An audiobook narrator explains her process - and reads our writing.
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To investigate how audiobooks are made, we sat down with a professional audiobook narrator, Suzy Jackson, to break down her work. And to make the audiobook recording process even more apparent, Vox's Phil Edwards wrote one for her. According to Suzy Jackson, the hardest part of recording an audiobook isn't acting as different characters, it's the long hours. And random esophageal noises.
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[@ionaf9]

The only acceptable video to be sponsored by audible and it's not...

[@LordMarlle]

She's too humble. This is legit voice-over acting

[@ashlynnmcquire8292]

That book low key sounds interesting.

[@snatched.8135]

I always wondered how they could read for hours on end without messing up a single time

[@grimr34p]

Vox has the answers to things we never knew we wanted to know

[@hashikdonthineni2863]

She's very charismatic.

[@joannaporebska6280]

In Poland there was a situation in which an audiobook narrator said something like "Im going to puke" while ending reading a chapter of 50 shades of Grey... It wasnt noticed by sound editors, so... it got published like this.

[@metfan4l]

She's very good.

[@HelgaCavoli]

A Reese Whiterspoon kind of voice.

[@biancacezara2427]

Seeing how much time and effort are put in these ....i want a audiobook so bad now

[@Shyshy-sb2rt]

I can't even read in the class room without messing up

[@nik3727]

such crisp clean microphone quality

[@JoeChalk]

Wow this is mesmerizing, I might actually go buy an audiobook now...

[@BanditRants]

I always struggle with audio in my videos. This sounds phenomenal.

[@ultrakwon]

How does your voice maintain the consistent bubbly/crispness even when you're doing this all day? My voice starts off hoarse in the morning and then get progressively scratchier.

[@IDontWantThisStupidHandle]

The way she describes prepping the book and having to be in the present to emote, but always hae one eye slightly ahead -- that's music. Even if we've rehearsed for weeks on end (when we are usually only given a few days notice for the sheet music, sometimes much less than that), we always have to be in the moment, feeling the music, but keep a part of our mind on the next few measures so we (literally) don't miss a beat.

[@johnbouttell5827]

Book narrator: Bookarrator

[@VARIOUShorses]

Major props to VO artists, I find it hard enough to get through a sentence in my own scripts, let alone paragraphs of someone elses novel.

[@blythetroke]

Her voice is so smooth 😩