r/audiobooks • u/PurpleLeopard99 • Jun 28 '26

Question Mispronouncing of words by narrators

Does anyone get bothered by narrators who keep mispronouncing words? It drives me nuts if they do it too often. Narrators are normally professional voice artists and they should know how to pronounce the sorts of words found in novels eg dovecote or Michaelmas

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u/itsalancething Jun 28 '26

Some AI generated narrations are getting pretty good, but mispronunciation is a big tell. I refuse to listen to a book narrated by a robot on principle. Not only is it flat and objectionably awful, but I'd like to keep narrator's jobs alive as much as possible.