V12 Studios recording facilities provide the ideal environment for professional audiobook narrators. Our engineered sessions provide accurate and efficient support to any narration project.
We deliver clean punch-edited files for recording sessions or roll record at your request.
Producing an audiobook consists of a narrator sitting in a recording booth reading the text, while a studio engineer and a director record and direct the performance.[30] If a mistake is made the recording is stopped and the narrator reads it again.[30] With recent advancements in recording technology, many audiobooks are also now recorded in home studios by narrators working independently.[31] Audiobooks produced by major publishing houses undergo a proofing and editing process after narration is recorded.
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as “unabridged”, while readings of shorter versions are abridgements.
Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of cassettes, compact discs, and downloadable audio, often of poetry and plays rather than books. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays.