I recently did a fantasy book with a made up word in it. The made up word was almost identical to an existing English word (albeit one that isn’t used much), so the director and I agreed to pronounce it the same way.
A few weeks after recording, the producer reached out and asked us to re-record each instance of that one word (more than 500 instances) because the author requested a different pronunciation. We did it. It took hours.
The book got released with the corrected pronunciation, and almost every review mentions that I’m an idiot for not knowing how to pronounce the word.
Narrator here.
I recently did a fantasy book with a made up word in it. The made up word was almost identical to an existing English word (albeit one that isn’t used much), so the director and I agreed to pronounce it the same way.
A few weeks after recording, the producer reached out and asked us to re-record each instance of that one word (more than 500 instances) because the author requested a different pronunciation. We did it. It took hours.
The book got released with the corrected pronunciation, and almost every review mentions that I’m an idiot for not knowing how to pronounce the word.
You can’t win.