The Empress Sword

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Submitted by brandonyoung on Tue, 2010/02/09 - 6:07pm

A Prince, a Dragon & a Magic Sword – all the elements of a classic adventure story.

Unfortunately for Prince Aster of Caledon the dragon in question may not be the evil beast he thinks it is, and the magic sword might not even let the adventurous young prince touch it. When Aster discovers the price he must pay to save his kingdom, he’ll have to make a choice no self-respecting adventure book hero would even consider.

This is not your father’s epic fantasy story, but it might be you’re cousin Trudy’s.

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Hearing impaired

Submitted by grover on Tue, 2010/02/09 - 7:41pm.

I'm hearing impaired and have problems with things like this that doesn't have sub-titles. Is there a printed version of this because I love TG fantasy stories?

Grover

Hearing Impaired

Submitted by brandonyoung on Tue, 2010/02/09 - 9:55pm.

Sorry to say there is no printed version yet. I'm not involved in producing this. I just found it and liked it. I found this through a cross-promotion from other podcast novels. The authors provide the voices for each other's works. Some of the other authors have had their works published, so this story may get published sometime in the future.

--Brandon Young

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--Brandon Young

Would using the audio

Submitted by a-d on Sat, 2011/02/12 - 3:32pm.

Would using the audio version with a speech to text program make a written version of the story?

Or are they too expensive/not good enough yet/there's too much background noise for such a thing to work?

Speech to text isn't good enough yet

Submitted by brandonyoung on Sat, 2011/03/05 - 6:51pm.

I don't think Speech to text is good enough to make a good copy. just as an example, Google's voice transcription for their voicemail produces laughable results. And that is usually with nothing but just spoken text. This audiobook is also more like a radio play with sound effects and music.

EDIT: I just checked the author's web site. She managed to get signed with a publisher. Expected to be released on Memorial day. But that news was last summer. No update has been made since.

Authors blog post here

--Brandon Young

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--Brandon Young