Sound Salad Podcast

06/12/2023

Tossing it with
🥬🎧🎙📚📻🔊 😊

I was delighted to be the narrator for Minnie's autobiographical book Blindingly Obvious which tells of her travels and stories as a partially sighted woman and access advocate, and her quest to build a more equitable and accessible world. The book was destined to be the countries ‘most accessible published book’ to date - which I believe it is, given that it's available as a printed text, an audiobook, it's the first full non-fiction book to be translated into NZ sign language, it is currently being released episodically as a podcast series and will be coming to a Braille and e-braille format as well. Next step is te reo Māori, other global languages and beyond! As always, thanks to Audiobooks NZ and our recording partners at

Check out her work at www.minnieb.co.nz and listen to the interview below and in bio:
https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-3-ep-3-tossing-it-with-minnie-baragwanath-new-audiobook-podcast-series

23/10/2023

Got another episode of the for yas!

We’re chatting about the impending doom that is the use of artificial intelligence and cloned or computer generated voices as replacements for narrators and actors in the audiobook industry.

Join me as I talk through the nitty gritty with Theo Gibson, founder and head of Audiobooks NZ who has a breadth of experience and opinion on the subject of AI and what it means for the audio publishing industry. We share some horror stories and what we can expect as we move ahead with the knowledge that AI is here to stay, we just have to learn to live with it and safely protect ourselves from being exploited as it continues to learn from the infinite melting pot of content and information available on it’s feeding ground; the internet. We’re hopeful the lay person - or indeed any human who enjoys listening to long form content, podcasts, audiobooks and stories can become advocates for continued use of human voices, instead of letting us be taken over by robots. Many thanks to our studio partners

I'm working on a sub-committee with Equity New Zealand to see how we can best regulate against the misuse of AI and our bodily IP. If you've got any concerns or issues to raise, please get in touch and we can air them collectively. ✌🏻✊🏻

Link : https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-3-ep-2-tossing-it-with-theo-gibson-ai-audiobook-production?fbclid=IwAR39gVT4NVFbDlXvLidnQT6AD-9SnOXn5RLLlhkif4HUW-WRr8KukqqwbEo

23/01/2023

Our first episode for 2023 - and season 3!! 🥳 features Rahul Rai with his new book: Repurpose Me, Your Path to a Contentment Mindset!

​​Do you take life too seriously even though you know it is so temporary? Have you found yourself postponing the things that you really want to do? Do you ever wish you could enjoy your work a little more or wonder where to find purpose, happiness, or just contentment? After a near-death health experience and living through the horror of the Christchurch earthquakes, Rahul Rai started to look at the bigger purpose of all we do. As always, thanks so much to Audiobooks NZ for making Sound Salad Podcast possible!

08/08/2022

Somewhat of a delayed upload, but better late than never!

Season 2's 3rd episode of has us tossing it with Rosy Fenwicke. She's made the shift from writing part time alongside a medical career, to working full time as a mystery and woman's fiction writer. (The Euphemia Sage Chronicles; Hot Flush, Switched Up and Empty Nest, among other solo titles) and is the esteemed author of 'In Practise: The Lives of NZ Women Doctors in the 21st Century.'

Her recent cryptocurrency thriller 'Cold Wallet' is stocked on the shelves of your local bookstores and on Amazon, with the audiobook available through Audiobooks NZ

🥳 🎧 📚🎙💎

https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-2-ep-3-tossing-it-with-rosy-fenwicke

13/06/2022

Episode 4 has us tossing it with esteemed non-fiction and children’s fiction writer Karen Mcmillan - author 😊🥳🎙🎧📚

Having published in 9 countries she has a number of titles under her belt already, - almost 20, not to mention her Elastic Island series for younger readers, comprised of 6 titles all set to be released as audiobooks with the first coming out this month, narrated by beloved children’s entertainer Suzy Cato 😀 ❤️ 😊
SWOON!

You can access the audiobook and the episode by following an old skool link. 😋

https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-2-ep-4-tossing-it-with-karen-mcmillan

03/05/2022

Sound Salad season 2 is live! 😁
Such a pleaure gas bagging with the incomparable Linn Lorkin who recently completed narrating her memoir ‘The Redhead Gets the Gig’ with
🥳💃🎙🎶 🎹 🎧 📚

Linn is such a local gem, and her novel is a musical jaunt through some of the high and low lights that make up the colourful life of a working musician, complete with her own original compositions and a narrative performance that shows off her innate charisma. Linn has certainly lived a life or three, and her stories take us all over the world.

Check out the book at www.audiobooksnz.co.nz

And the interview at
https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-2-ep-2-tossing-it-with-linn-lorkin

09/03/2022

First ep of the year is up! On the day that I'm allowed out of isolation too.. thank all the good things for that..

And thanks for your time David Whittet and the usual support of Audiobooks NZ 😁😁😁

https://www.audiobooksnz.com/soundsalad/season-2-ep1-tossing-it-with-david-whittet?fbclid=IwAR3pH4-pNwHQv7jdSyq8gaMpINpzu1qDUk5rsxW5xnNMTwjwAEBCKmei8DU

Romy Hooper, Audiobook Narrator, Actor, Writer and Podcast Host