u/juninhoofl

I’m about to purchase an ElevenLabs plan so I can use my wife’s voice to narrate children’s audiobooks for our daughter.
My wife will be traveling for a couple of weeks, and I thought hearing her voice while listening to bedtime stories might help our daughter cope with being apart from her.
Before I start, I’d love to know if there are any best practices for creating the audio files so I don’t waste credits.
I’ve seen people mention using brackets to indicate tone or emotions (for example, [whisper] or [excited]). Is this actually effective for audiobooks?
Also, is it better to generate one audio file per chapter, or should I generate the entire book as a single audio file?
Any other tips for getting the most natural and expressive narration would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I’m a 40-year-old engineer from Brazil, and my wife is currently finishing her psychology degree. She wants to specialize in psychological assessment and diagnosis, especially related to neurodivergent children (autism, ADHD, learning disorders, etc.).

During our daughter’s autism diagnosis journey, we had a very difficult experience finding professionals who were both technically competent and truly careful/ethical in their evaluations, we bumped into many professionals that mixed religion with psychology. Many assessments were extremely expensive and, honestly, not very good. That experience made us realize there seems to be a shortage of high-quality professionals in this area.

Because of that, my wife became very interested in this field, and I started wondering whether there is a meaningful way for me to work alongside her.
I am NOT trying to become a psychologist or do clinical work. The clinical side would be entirely hers. But coming from an engineering/data/measurement background, I became interested in psychometrics, testing methodology, statistics, data analysis, standardization, scoring systems, reliability/validity studies, and things like that.

What I’m struggling to understand is:

Does this idea actually make sense in the real world?

Are there non-psychologists working in psychometrics or assessment-related support roles?

What kinds of skills or education would make this useful rather than superficial?

If you had 2 years to prepare for this transition, what would you study?

Which fields should I focus on first? Statistics? R? Psychometrics? Cognitive assessment? Research methods?

Are there good online programs/certificates/courses you would recommend for someone coming from STEM?

I know psychology is a regulated and ethically sensitive field, so I want to approach this respectfully and realistically. I’m mainly trying to understand whether there is a legitimate path where my technical background could actually help improve assessment quality and accessibility.

I’d really appreciate honest feedback, even if the answer is “this is not how the field works.”
Thank you.