The Hork-Bajir Chronicles - Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, part 22.5 of Animorphs Aloud, a fan-produced read-aloud version of the Animorphs series.

The trickiest thing with this book was deciding what to do with the Hork-Bajir voices. The official audiobook has the spoken language in the gruff, gravelly voice typical of the Hork-Bajri dialogue of other books, but of course, that would be murder on the voice of a human narrator, so the internal narration of Dak is an easier-to-speak, more normal voice. I think it works well, but I also wanted to maintain consistency with my own previous iterations of Hork-Bajir in Animorphs Aloud. I went with an easier voice for Dak that I could maintain overall (which was still hard - many breaks required!), and then had to decide whether I would apply my slight pitch and tempo drop on his narration. Those effects work great on a single alien line, but they do sound slightly off when listened to for an extended time (at least for me). But at last I decided to go ahead and do it because why not. It's not ideal for narration in general, but I'm already breaking the rules by including sound effects for the onomatopoeias, so why not. (I also did it for all the dialogue for Sub-Visser Seven in The Andalite Chronicles, so again, consistency). Hopefully it sounds okay to you all!

Thanks for listening!

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