Kendra Winchester discusses the challenges audiobook narrators face when performing Appalachian dialects. She’s joined by special guests Monica Brashears, Jeanette Illidge, Idra Novey, and Christina Delaine.

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Things Mentioned

• “Better Than Nothing? Exploring the Limitations of AI-audiobooks from a Disabled Person’s Perspective” (Book Riot)
• “10 Audiobook Narrators You Need to Follow on TikTok” (Book Riot)
• “We Need to Stop Asking the Question, Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?” (Book Riot)
• Ronnie Butler Jr’s TikTok
• “Novelist Idra Novey on the Places That Made Her” (Belt Magazine)

Books Mentioned

GUESTS
Monica Brashears
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Jeannette Illidge
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Idra Novey
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Christina Delaine
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