Pointing Out Errors?

[paraka]

I was wondering how useful it is for podficers to have listeners point out when they've made a mistake?
I know with fic many author's are ok with having typos or spelling errors pointed out, but how useful is it for podficers? It's a lot easier to edit an LJ entry then it is to go back and edit a podfic then re-upload and all that.
I could see it being really useful if it's a mistake they're likely to repeat in the future, like mispronouncing a common word or fandom specific term. But what if it's just a one off mistake?

As a follow up question, will mistakes stop you from listening to a podfic? Either by making you stop or by stopping you from listening to it again.

Personally, in the last two days I've re-listened to podfics that had mispronunciation errors. In one fic it's of a fandom specific term. I haven't really examined if that has made me listen to the podfic less, although the word is used often and I haven't listened to the podfic as often as my love of the fic should cause. In the second case, it's a podfic I really love, but a podficer I love and it's a one off word unlikely to ever come up in her other podfics, however it bothers me so much that I started cringing 5 minutes before the mistake happened in anticipation, the mistake was memorable enough for me to be able to anticipate it 5 minutes in advance and it prompted me to make this post.

Comments

[darkemeralds]

I'm having a tough time with this one. I recently listened to a long piece by a non-native speaker, and her particular accent affected her pronunciation of a major character's name. At first it was just kind of a "tomato, tomahto" difference, but after several hours it became a deal-breaker. To let the reader know about this particular error would seem to me to be a criticism of her accent, and that just seems too personal.

For myself, my podfic-making rate is so glacially slow that, while I would appreciate knowing that I mispronounced, say, an American place name, the likelihood that I'll ever podfic that specific word again is very small.

The correction would, however, make me much more careful to vet the next text for unfamiliar words BEFORE I come to them at at the end of an hourlong recording session.

[paraka]

Yeah, when it comes to non-canon words I'm willing to give a lot of room for dialects/accents but for things like names or canon specific words it's a lot harder for me to take. I know that I'm really hesitant to go in offering corrections or to let people know that something like this bothers. I think it really depends on the podficer. If it seems like they'd be open to it.

The correction would, however, make me much more careful to vet the next text for unfamiliar words BEFORE I come to them at at the end of an hourlong recording session.
And that's really what it comes back to for me on this. Once a podfic is out there, it's out there and it's very hard to get a corrected version on people's computers, however if you're planning on podficing more in the future, wouldn't you want to know?