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There’s a nifty little audio editing app called TwistedWave, which is adequate for such first-pass tasks as adjusting pauses or deleting coughs and false starts, but to clearly see and hear all the little pops and clicks, tweak the equalization, and so forth, I still need my computer’s trusty editing software.

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At the moment, the iPad’s recording capabilities don’t appear to be at the pro level. In my perfect world, I’d be able to ditch my laptop and use the cool, silent iPad for all my recording and editing, but that may take a few more years. If you’re working in a small, poorly ventilated booth - yeah, you in the bedroom closet, I’m talking to you - you don’t need any lights, so you don’t wind up drenched in sweat. But perhaps the best perk is the most low-tech. (I used to use the iKlip, which attaches the iPad directly to the mic stand, but found that that produces a rumble during scrolling.) Another benefit: as the session proceeds and your eyes get tired, you can keep making the text bigger. With a device called the Standzfree, you can mount the iPad in front your mic stand, then use your finger to scroll smoothly from one screenful of text to the next. In the recording booth, the most obvious benefit of the iPad is the absence of rustling pages (and dropped pages, and misplaced pages).

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If the PDF you’ve received has extra-wide top and bottom margins, which can make smooth scrolling a challenge, you can trim them through a handy free service available at. Fortunately, you can convert a “bad” PDF to a “good” one by opening it in Adobe Acrobat, using the OCR Text Recognition command, then saving the file in a congenial format such as PDF/A or Optimized. The others look identical, but are actually just pictures of pages (like a photocopy) and not computer-readable as text.

Some but not all of the scripts that rights holders upload to ACX fit that description. Note: To use many of these apps, you must have a script in PDF format consisting of actual text, recognizable as such by an iPad or other computer. Or, if a minor character I thought I was done with back in Chapter 3 suddenly shows up in Chapter 12, I can quickly locate his previous appearances, go to the corresponding spot in my sound file, and check the voicing. Back in iAnnotate, I can use the Find function to quickly gather every occurrence of the name or other tricky word and ensure consistency. In two taps of my finger I could go to YouTube, and find a news or interview clip of the person. What about names of cultural figures less famous than Lady Gaga? I recently narrated Fool’s Paradise, a chronicle of South Beach and its culture of excess, and had to deal with the occasional paragraph that was essentially a guest list for a fancy party: architects, bankers, rappers, athletes, models. That’s especially useful for preserving the nuances of foreign pronunciations that I’ve cadged from a native speaker.Īnother great pronunciation resource is an app called Howjsay: I type in a word and hear it regally enunciated by what sounds like the ghost of Sir Laurence Olivier. I can finger-write or type the pronunciation in the script’s margin or even embed a little sound file there for later reference. When I encounter an unfamiliar name or term, by holding my finger on it for a moment I can go straight to the corresponding Wikipedia article or a choice of online dictionaries. And I can map my way through the contours of the text, using my finger to insert multicolored underlines, highlights, marginal notes, and customizable rubber stamps. Now I can work almost anywhere - including in bed, while my wife is sleeping, without turning on the light.

In the old days, once I’d downloaded a script, I had to run to Staples, pay to print out 300 pages, then lug that brick of loose sheets around on planes and trains, to Starbucks or my backyard or the (windy) beach, or wherever else I wanted to sit and prep. Now - especially as an independent narrator-producer - I can barely imagine working without it. In the course of using it to produce several audiobooks, I’ve discovered a number of advantages, some of them quite unexpected. But, as things have turned out, the iPad has become an indispensable tool of my trade. “I need it for narrating” was a convincing-enough justification.

The truth is, the iPad looked like such a supercool toy that I really just wanted an excuse to buy one. If you have ideas or opinions about this, please post a comment or let us know on Facebook or Twitter. Below, actor Dean Sluyter explains how the iPad can be a narrator’s best friend. It’s easier than ever to set up a home studio, and new devices continue to inform the way actors and producers get audiobooks made on ACX.

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As many of our professional narrators know, technology has created a new paradigm for audiobook production.