So, interest seems to be limited. Which is okay. It was an experiment.
Thanks to those who did comment.
I'll probably come back and finish off this story in the next few days or so, but I don't think I'll be doing any more.
As for bitrate... I found the Audacity option. Seems it was set to 128 (k/sec, I'm assuming). I'll probably lower that for the rest of the story.
Jana, if you want to work with other stories, there are programs to do it. A quick web search for "text to speech" or something similar should turn them up. Alternatively, there's a
Wiki article with a good number of program links, including a bunch that are free.
Anyway, thanks again to those who posted their thoughts. I'll post back to this thread when I have the rest of the story recorded.
Paul