Narrator for a political science audiobook in English (16 000 words)
Budget: €80 – €180 EUR
Hello, I am searching for a male narrator able to record an audiobook in English. The 16 000 words text is about the definition of Anarchy. The final recording should be around 1h45 mn. A male voice native of USA or England would be a plus.
Important notice : The audiobook is supposed to be released on the major digital platforms (Audible, Amazon, Itunes...) There will be no SPLIT REVENUES, which means you will be only paid for recording the audiobook. Furthermore, an INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT will be signed via freelancer.com.
The text, written by a 19th Century Political Leader, was intended for a wide audience and remains quite easy to read. Here is a sample :
"Anarchy is a word which comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people without any constituted authority, that is, without government.
Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a party (which party has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word Anarchy was taken universally in the sense of disorder and confusion; and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
We shall not enter into philological discussions; for the question is not philological but historical. The common meaning of the word does not misconceive its true etymological signification, but is derived from this meaning, owing to the prejudice that government must be a necessity of the organization of social life; and that consequently a society without government must be given up to disorder, and oscillate between the unbridled dominion of some and the blind vengeance of others.
The existence of this prejudice, and its influence on the meaning which the public has given the word, is easily explained.
Man, like all living beings, adapts and habituates himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when he began to think, believed that slavery was an essential condition of life; and liberty seemed to him an impossible thing. In like manner, the workman, forced for centuries, and thus habituated, to depend upon the good will of his employer for work, that is, for bread, and accustomed to see his own life at the disposal of those who possess the land and the capital, has ended in believing that it is his master who gives him to eat, and demands ingenuously how it would be possible to live, if there were no master over him?
In the same way, a man who had had his limbs bound from his birth, but had nevertheless found out how to hobble about, might attribute to the very hands that bound him his ability to move, while, on the contrary, they would be diminishing and paralyzing the muscular energy of his limbs."
Feel free to contact me if you need more information or if you want me to send you the text.
Regards
Daniel
Important notice : The audiobook is supposed to be released on the major digital platforms (Audible, Amazon, Itunes...) There will be no SPLIT REVENUES, which means you will be only paid for recording the audiobook. Furthermore, an INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AGREEMENT will be signed via freelancer.com.
The text, written by a 19th Century Political Leader, was intended for a wide audience and remains quite easy to read. Here is a sample :
"Anarchy is a word which comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people without any constituted authority, that is, without government.
Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a party (which party has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word Anarchy was taken universally in the sense of disorder and confusion; and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
We shall not enter into philological discussions; for the question is not philological but historical. The common meaning of the word does not misconceive its true etymological signification, but is derived from this meaning, owing to the prejudice that government must be a necessity of the organization of social life; and that consequently a society without government must be given up to disorder, and oscillate between the unbridled dominion of some and the blind vengeance of others.
The existence of this prejudice, and its influence on the meaning which the public has given the word, is easily explained.
Man, like all living beings, adapts and habituates himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when he began to think, believed that slavery was an essential condition of life; and liberty seemed to him an impossible thing. In like manner, the workman, forced for centuries, and thus habituated, to depend upon the good will of his employer for work, that is, for bread, and accustomed to see his own life at the disposal of those who possess the land and the capital, has ended in believing that it is his master who gives him to eat, and demands ingenuously how it would be possible to live, if there were no master over him?
In the same way, a man who had had his limbs bound from his birth, but had nevertheless found out how to hobble about, might attribute to the very hands that bound him his ability to move, while, on the contrary, they would be diminishing and paralyzing the muscular energy of his limbs."
Feel free to contact me if you need more information or if you want me to send you the text.
Regards
Daniel