Perhaps the jest went too far. I wound up producing the entirety of the work, consuming much more time and energy than if I, or some other carbon-based unit, had simply armed ourselves with microphone and recorder, then intrepidly hacked our way toward throat cancer, through all 120-odd hours of the reading. But that's water under the bridge. I took the (immense) trouble to teach the well-meaning but naive programs improved pronunciations of over 4.000 words, mostly proper names, British spellings, and 18th century archaisms. Having some background in Catholic Church Latin, and two years of (forced) Latin in high school, but no classical scholar, I can only vouch that I did the best I could within my hobbyist limitations. In cases of extremely obscure items such as "Goisvintha"--a Gothic queen; or "Geougen"--a collective noun, like "herd" or "squad", to describe a certain group of Tartaric barbarians, I've settled for what sounded, to my part-time poet's ear, euphonious and consistent with the flow of the line. I've heard tapes of classical scholars rendering academically correct Latin, but, to venture arrogance, neither they nor the Church ever convinced me that anyone except prelates, scholars, and perhaps an affected upper crust ever actually spoke that way. How else explain French? I'd give a lot to bounce through Latium once per century from 600 B.C through the first millennium of our era in order to hear authentic village or "street" Latin. One notices that at Chapter 39 a different voice takes over through to the end of the work. For this there are two major reasons. Firstly, the product of the original voice required some extensive, and excruciatingly time-consuming digital audio processing to remove crudities of the speech engine, such as a harsh rasp, which even yet breaks through on occasion. Secondly, the production of all six volumes occupied the occasional parts of three or four years, during which time a much improved speech engine became available. Back then I did not envision a public audience for the work, and so was not hobbled by considerations of consistency. The new voice was smoother, endowed with a much more "intelligent" engine, AND DID NOT CRASH EVERY TWENTY MINUTES! For those interested, the softwares are the two final versions of Monologue, created by First Byte Software. I do not believe it is any more available to the market.