{"id":2292,"date":"2026-07-03T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:05:18","slug":"hearing-in-anothers-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/hearing-in-anothers-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing in Another\u2019s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you write a book, you internally hear the words in your own voice. You hear your<br \/>\ninflection, emotion, and the intensity of your feelings. But as my publisher plans to produce an<br \/>\naudiobook, I had to choose a \u201cvoice\u201d for my words.<\/p>\n<p>I could have recorded the entire book myself, of course, but I don\u2019t have a professionally trained<br \/>\nvoice, so I thought it best to select a voice from the publisher\u2019s voice library.<\/p>\n<p>How different it is to hear your words spoken by another. Is THAT how \u201cthe voice\u201d interprets my<br \/>\nwords? More than likely, AI is reading my words to me, but suddenly, AI becomes a partner in<br \/>\nthe process. AI doesn\u2019t have a personality, and yet, my words are assuming the personalities in<br \/>\nmy novel. My protagonist, Anne, is happy, perturbed, frustrated, excited, fearful, and all these<br \/>\nemotions come through. Amazing. I am excited to hear my words come alive through the voice<br \/>\nof another . Listening to my book gives it new perspectives and interpretations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you write a book, you internally hear the words in your own voice. You hear your inflection, emotion, and the intensity of your feelings. But as my publisher plans<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/hearing-in-anothers-voice\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joywinkieviola.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}