{"id":97,"date":"2025-12-04T21:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:51:07","slug":"getting-my-head-wrapped-around-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/getting-my-head-wrapped-around-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting my head wrapped around audio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m pushing like hell to get the next in the series out before the end of the year. For quite a few writers I know, the measly twenty thousand words I need could be knocked off in a week; unfortunately, that&#8217;s not me &#8211; yet. I hope to get to that point someday but there&#8217;s still too much other stuff rattling around in my head to accomplish those kinds of numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m probably going to have to push audio production back to next year, but I am seriously looking at getting it done. I was surprised at how many narrators there are with more than a passing knowledge of Thai, which you&#8217;d need, if you&#8217;re going to be able to genuinely sound like, Chance. If he sounded like most farang who speak Thai it would ruin the credibility of the books, and I&#8217;d like to get one narrator to do them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you guys think? Are audiobooks a thing for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pushing like hell to get the next in the series out before the end of the year. For quite a few writers I know, the measly twenty thousand words I need could be knocked off in a week; unfortunately, that&#8217;s not me &#8211; yet. I hope to get to that point someday but there&#8217;s still too much other stuff &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/getting-my-head-wrapped-around-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}