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Spanish HPMOR audiobook

I am interested in having a spanish-language audiobook of HPMOR so that I can listen to it, since I have not found interesting spanish audiobooks to listen to, and also because I want it to exist. Since there appears to be none available and I can't pronounce spanish well enough to make one, I'm interested in paying someone to do it. I am assuming that we can use the translation at https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9531118/1/Harry-Potter-y-los-m%C3%A9todos-de-la-racionalidad which is linked to from http://hpmor.com/info/ and possibly supplement it with help from duolingo? http://lesswrong.com/lw/lfp/using_doulingo_immersion_feature_to_translate/

Of course HPMOR is very long and audiobooks are usually about 9300 words per hour, so I commit to only about three hours of audiobook, each of which I am assuming would take about 2.5 hours to produce at an amateur quality (ums, coughing, minor repeats etc not edited out) for a total of 2.5 production hr/ finished hr * 3 finished hours * 20+ USD/hr ~= 150 minimum

I realize that this is an absurdly low rate for audiobook narration and this is negotiable but I am not interested in a polished product, just something read out loud by a student somewhere. Suggestions?

sources: https://www.acx.com/help/starting-your-audiobook-project/200474460 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1935275-how-much-do-the-premier-narrators-get-paid

I commit to making any spanish HPMOR audiobook (that I pay for the creation of / own reproduction rights to) available for free to anyone who wants a copy. I won't put much effort towards it but I'll put it online somewhere downloadable.

Please suggest people who might be interested in being paid to read this into a recording device. Send me a PM and then we can switch to email.

I am also interested in hearing about HPMOR-like (reading level similar, rationalist fic) spanish audiobooks.

Posted Sep 16, 2015, 7:03 AM UTC · edited

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