
Award winning multilingual audiobook narrator. Bringing curiosity, joy and empathy to every story.
2022 Audie Winner: Best Female Narrator

Award winning multilingual audiobook narrator. Bringing curiosity, joy and empathy to every story.
2022 Audie Winner
Best Female Narrator

Words make my imagination soar.
Audiobooks I’ve narrated
Reviews of my audiobooks
The Parted Earth (Fiction)
Gupta moves us from India in the late 1940s to present-day Atlanta. Her narration is a gentle entry into a bloody past. She shifts between male and female characters, Indians and Americans, keeping the listener grounded throughout.All My Rage (Young Adult)
Her deep voice expresses the mature personality of Misbah. As the story shifts in time, listeners hear her perspectives as a young adult and as a mature woman who is caring for her son and adoptive daughter.Stealing Thunder (Fantasy)
She delivers an intimate and honest performance in this romantic tale of loss, love, and courage. Gupta accentuates the coming-of-age aspects of the story, elevating it to a powerful narrative that explores female sexuality and identity in ways that are rare in audiobooks.And The Bride Closed the Door (Fiction)
She gives life to all the fabulous characters in this story, translated from Hebrew. Gupta does a great job voicing all the characters, with their compassion and concern, as well as their disdain.Polite Society (Fiction)
Gupta does an excellent job bringing the members of ultrarich Delhi society to life, subtly distinguishing between old money and the nouveaux riches. The multitude of characters are never confusing or interchangeable, thanks to Gupta’s skill.I Remember Abbu (Fiction)
A girl’s feelings of loss and yearning during the Bangladeshi war for independence are captured beautifully by her melodic and mournful voice. Gupta infuses these moments of family life with a love so warm that it’s palpable. Gupta’s performance handles male and female characters in equal measure, especially as she portrays the playful relationship between Abbu, the narrator’s father, and his child.In Search of Safety (Young Adult)
Gupta stoically portrays Nyarout’s sufferings in a refugee camp, joyfully exclaims over her discovery of indoor showers, and determinedly recounts her transition to self-sufficiency. Shireen’s account of torture by ISIS in Iraq is difficult to hear. In a flat voice, she says, “I’ve seen women sold for as little as one dollar. I was sold five times.”A Place For Us (Fiction)
Gupta establishes the complex emotional landscape of a family transplanted from India to the U.S. in the subtle, tender tones of Layla. Listeners will appreciate the realistic sense of a family in turmoil created by the narrator.The Golden Legend (Fiction)
Deepti Gupta is an excellent choice for this story of diverse characters struggling to survive in contemporary Pakistan. She portrays Nargis as a gentle, pensive, and sympathetic woman battling increasing danger.KHABAAR (Biography & Memoir)
…a soulful voice for this feminist memoir about migration, food, and staying true to one’s choices. Gupta capably steers the listener through a complicated set of overlapping themes and evokes empathy for the author as we learn of her leaving an abusive marriage and navigating a career in the sciences as a woman of color.A SLIVER OF MOON AND A SHARD OF TRUTH (CHILDREN)
Deepti Gupta’s warm, expressive voice lends authenticity to this third volume of lively trickster stories inspired by traditional Indian folktales.Gupta’s enhancement of the narrative comes through in the individual characters’ voices; she is especially engaging in her delivery of the boys’ youthful enthusiasm and boisterous humor. An entertaining and thought-provoking listen.The Lady or The Lion (Young Adult)
The young adult story mixes intrigue, mystery, and forbidden romance, and Gupta’s deliberate performance pairs beautifully with Qureshi’s text. Listeners will be enraptured by palace intrigue, secrets, deception, and the nimbleness of Gupta’s flawless performance.
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Curiosity. Joy. Empathy.
My father was my first audiobook. When I was a little girl, my sister and I would tuck ourselves in thick blankets in the cold Delhi winters and gleefully look at our father, who would tell us stories he knew by heart. His eyes would grow bigger, and his hands would start painting pictures in the air as he told us stories of simpletons who outwitted the smart people or a little girl who outsmarted all the dangerous animals on her way to see her grandmother. His joy in telling those stories of adventures and adventurers inspired us to imagine worlds we hadn’t dreamed of before.
My mother never told us stories. She was a working mother who packed us lunches in the morning and made us dinner after coming home from work; she made sure my sister and I did our homework as she washed clothes by hand. When she found the time, she’d play badminton with us or jump rope with us. So, in a way, she did tell us stories. In her case, her actions told the story of working hard, caring for one’s family, and finding joy in the smallest of pleasures life has to offer.
I didn’t know then what a gift my parents had imparted to me; each in their own way. When my son cries for “one more last” story before going to bed and I have to tell him “no”, my heart skips a beat. I wish he didn’t have school in the morning. I wish we could tell each other stories all night; fictional ones and the ones that lie in our hearts. But I’m reminded that stories are as much in words as in actions. So, we must sleep in order that we may wake up tomorrow and tell, create, and share more stories from our hearts.

Studio Setup
Studio Bricks Studio One booth
Scarlett 2i2 preamp
Microphone: sE2200 a2C (large diaphragm condenser).
Software: Reaper and Twisted Wave.
I record punch & roll.
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