When I read a blog entry written by someone I know from “real life”, I perceive it as being read in their voice, complete with their inflections, phrasing, facial expressions and hand gestures.1 If you’ve met me, you might “hear” cardboard.nu in the same way.
But what readers that don’t know me? What do they hear when they read my blog?
My sister Kate recently had a snippet from her blog voiced by none other than Diver Dan. She accomplished this simply by placing faux-XML ‘ddv’ (meaning Diver Dan Voice) tags around the text. Worked for me. Pretty clever, really.
Well, if Kate can have a celebrity voice, then so can I. But who? It has to be somebody who (a) has a solid, pleasant voice, (b) is well known to the typical cardboard.nu reader, (c) has a reputation worthy of the weighty topics discussed here and (d) won’t charge royalties.
Any suggestions?
1 Charles Miller once did an audio blog entry. Casey’s blog cracks me up, because I hear it in his Pirate Song voice.
Comments
I find it disturbing that my default voice is that of a pirate. If we meet again, you'll feel the pointy end of my cutlass! Yarr!