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Tran11 primetime, tonight 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Lets more people expense great stories. For people who cant read yet. You are off the reason that 50 of americans listen to an audiobook in 2019, so heres to all of you, heres two amazing audiobooks and heres to 25 years of the audio world. Ladies and document, we are thrilled to introduce this evening im a master of ceremonies, the witty and wonderful mr. Rocca. A correspondent for cbs sunday morning. Frequent catalyst on npr show, dont tell me. Is the author and narrator of the recent New York Times bestseller, obituary. I audio. Hes also the host of the podcast. We are excited to have him as our host this evening. Without further ado, mo rocca. [cheering] [applause] thank you, thank you. This is kind of a dream for me, i have to say. [cheering] here i am in this fabulous venue in front of this crowd and stephen king is here. [cheering] [applause] i feel like carrie when she was asked to prom. [laughter] anyway, i think given the
Theres something elemental about speaking the story that puts it to a different task. Narrators bring stories to life in countless ways. The works of shakespeare, toni morrison, Jason Reynolds and Michelle Obama are ace are richer experience heard rather than silent we read. Because of an intimate experience youre not performing per se. You are narrating it. And constantly listening and now get out my iphone and make a recording of someone that might have some characteristic. I feel like its less of myself as a poet who performs and now its myself being let me hold your hand and tell you this thing i heard was so inviting people but its in a different way. If i dont give everybody the utmost respect and understanding and compassion and the im not doing justice to this book. Studies have shown that listening to audiobooks is a more Emotional Experience and tories shared through other mediums. Its not a movie. Its not a book but it has the best of both worlds. Its a very intimate form of
But it has the best of both worlds. It is a very intimate form because you have an actual human being giving the story to you and i love that i love listening to the audiobook it is sharing the feeling of how that person is telling the story sparing. To be transformed into an audiobook it is an honor and a privilege with that in titled experimentation. And often times the way also let people experience Great Stories you are the reason 50 percent of americans listen to an audiobook 2019. Here is to amazing audiobooks and 25 years of the audie award awards. Ladies and gentlemen we are thrilled to introduce the master of ceremonies mr. Mo rocca he is the author and audiobook narrator of the New York Times bestseller great lives were three living published by Simon Schuster and also the host of the podcast we are excited to have him as our host this evening so without further ad ado, mo rocca. [applause] thank you. This is a dream for me i have to say. Here i am in this fabulous then you a
A time in the near future im saying 10 maybe 20 years where. Everything that we do pretty much will be done better by the robots and we will be jobless. No i dont think were anywhere close to that because theres you know different kinds of things the humans are good for different kinds of things that robots are good for and right now. For our lives weve been a good at making robots to you know sort of very clear. Clearly structured logical progression like you can have a robot do the same thing over and over and over again what they werent good at is doing things where you know the logical progression was super complicated or difficult to define and so now that we have Machine Learning were able to have them do those kinds of things but there are so many other things the robots arent going to do theyre still not creative at all yet theyre still not good at talking about creative taking care of humans talk about creating a lot of theater wrists and scientists that i spoke luke like your