Yes...between words of sentences and with pauses you would want the ambiance. That's why I initially suggested he just drop the ambiance where he wanted it and mix it all back down to one track.
I wasn't sure what he really had going on, I'm not into ebooks all that much. It looks like he already HAD the ambiance to begin with....then edited it out between the words...? Also, the way he was saying it, talking about "each link", it sounded like they were individual audio clips for different sections of the ebook and not flowing together with ambience in-between.
Don't they do spoken word for books mostly inside of dead vocal booths?
How much ambiance was there?
Like anything audio, without hearing what we are talking about, it's not always clear what the answer is..
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I've heard about it a LOT for movies, but not as much for eBooks. I guess it makes sense why they do it that way though.
I would think with movies they do a lot of ADR, and then create whatever ambience and specifc background noise is needed for the right feel ....plus foley
effects and
special sound design stuff....
...unless they keep/use
the original dialog they shot on location, then I would think the ambience would be vital.
Always found that kind of stuff interesting, but never had a chance to really get into it....other than some basic audio for video when I worked in TV produciton for a short time, but it was moslty about doing spoken word with canned background music against the video footage we shot.