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Journal Short Circuit's Journal: Voice Actors for Free Audio Book? 4

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The GRCC Computer Club is planning to produce an audio book this summer for release under a Creative Commons license. We went out to Project Gutenberg to find something that had fallen out of copyright. If we can find a male voice actor, we'll go with something by Mark Twain. If we can find a female voice actor, we'll go with Alice in Wonderland.

The problem is, we have no budget, so whoever we get will have to go unpaid. We've checked with the college's theater department and other performance classes on campus, but nobody has expressed an interest in our project. Where else can we look?

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    http://www.librivox.org/ [librivox.org]
  • Place fliers at other community schools. High schools, other colleges, and even places like Devry or Art Institutes. You might also want to call some local community theater groups.

    And depending on how bad you want it, check out some local Live Action Role Playing games. LARPs are often filled with theater type people.

    Just my two cents.
  • What kind of commitment is there? If it's not going to take up more than a few hours and you only need speaking, no sound effects or changes of gender (I can probably do voices well enough to get back, although I've got a fairly limitted assortment of accents and dialects), I'd be willing to help. Also, how good is your technology for eliminating basic background noise? I don't exactly own a recording studio, so it would be limitted to how much quiet I can achieve in my apartment.
    • Well, my audio editing capabilities are limited to whatever I can do with Audacity. Let me put together something, and we can hold an online audition. :)

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