Here’s a three-minute video about The Lutheran Missal.
Please don’t be overly critical of the Latin pronunciation. It’s Billy Joey’s first project with us, and he did his best.
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This is amazing. I like your regular voice better. What voice software did you use?
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It’s called Speechelo. Since my computer can’t work on the missal without supervision, I put it to work making videos. But I ended up needing to supervise that too…
This is awesome lol God bless