What's a narrator's time worth? Run the math at $50 PFH it's $250 / 35 hours = $7.15 an hour. For a 5 hour book, it means that the narrator works around 35 hours to complete the job properly. Add this all up and it can take 6.5 to 7 hours PFH of audio. This typically would take around 7.5 to 10 hours for a five hour book. Finally, you listen to it one last time to review timing between sentences, remove hard to find clicks & defects, export it to an Mp3 format and upload it to the customer. This typically takes between 1.5 to 1.75 hours PFH. ![]() The next step I do is to visually review the file manually removing breath sounds and clicks that the software didn't catch. I do this as a background process in the computer so I don't allocate any time to it. Then comes the automatic processing of the file (background noise reduction, compression, normalization, click removal & ssss removal). Quite often the writer doesn't have an independent editor edit the manuscript and you get a lot of errors that have to be fixed by the Narrator on the fly. During a typical day, reading time varies with the quality of the writing vis-a-vis proper punctuation, concise sentences, misspelled words, misplaced words, missing words, hard-to-pronounce or foreign words etc. Then you listen to it again for the mistakes that you didn't catch and correct during the original reading which takes a minimum of 5 more hours assuming you caught all the mistakes during the reading. You correct mistakes when they're detected which takes more time. First you have to read it, which in a 5 hour book takes 5 hours, assuming you made no mistakes during the reading. The narration process has a number of steps. I record metrics for every project I do in a continuing effort to produce better quality audio more quickly.
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