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My wife puts on RyconRoleplays or ChristopherOdd in the background sometimes when she’s having trouble sleeping. Rycon might have the voice you’re looking for; Odd’s narration depends on the game he’s playing, he likes to set the mood in more atmospheric games, and he reads out every bit of lore.

Clarkesworld is a sci-fi magazine with free audio versions on their site, plus on Spotify as a podcast. I’d recommend “The very Pulse of the Machine” personally as an intro. It was adapted into a great episode of “Love, Death + Robots”.

I listen to my favorite British game show (QI and "8 out of 10 cat's does countdown") or the 10 hour loop of Joe Pera talks you to sleep https://youtu.be/91wX0NRjJqg?si=aMDe0U0oyoNmAbVR

James May, reassembler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jgBrUdtEg&list=PLyl5ty6OTbcoHPEVeH8k2Ke1DVcYwqELa

Noah Caldwell-Gervais is my go-to for just relaxing audio. He does very in depth coverage of game franchises talking about how they evolved and the ways the mechanics support the narrative or run counter to it. Very chill and hypnotizing voice

https://youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic?si=r1mXzscOKAAZCNsI

Madseasonshow. I found him when World of Warcraft Classic launched a handful of years ago. Thinking about it, he and Joe Pera have a very similar speech style.

My current go-to is Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations Podcast

I've heard there are a lot of people who listen to PBS Space Time to fall asleep.

Cracking the Cryptic always lulls me to sleep. Specially Simon.

No idea about YouTubers, but I sometimes put on Nemo's Dreamscapes to sleep. It's just a music ambience but I like it.

For gaming I'd go with 'Midnight Snap' long let's plays designed for being on while you sleep. No shouting, no loud laughs or anything, just chill rambling

Not a "youtuber", but Jason Stephenson - Floating Amongst Stars might help you.

Hardware Haven is very calm and articulate. His (home made, I think) background music is really zen.

I go to sleep with the History of Philosophy: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-of-philosophy-without-any-gaps/id396903391.

Everyone has different things they want for going to sleep, and this might not be right for you. But for me this is perfect because:

• its just the right level of boring. If it were any more interesting id stay awake to listen, if it were any more boring I’d turn it off.
• its not multiple people talking, because my brain thinks it needs to stay awake to be part of the conversation.
• i cant do video, needs to be audio.
• his voice is reasonably relaxing.

I seriously can barely get through 1 or 1 episodes before going to sleep. Another similar one is Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

Especially their podcasts and audio dramas.

Whisky.com! Smooth, German! Very serious about quality whisky.

I like ! He's a Dutch fella that does videos of him playing Doom levels with live commentary, all done in single takes with no saves. He also does Doom analysis videos, which are fantastic deep dives into the code and mechanics of the old Doom games, but I love his play throughs as sleep aid since he keeps the game volume low and has this low, soothingly calm voice and laid back quality.

https://m.youtube.com/@sea_space

This one is my favorite. It's mostly 30 minute videos about astronomy. I recommend starting with the newer ones.

I like brutal moose, he has had a whole slew of different content through the years from video games, cooking and shopping outings that are all funny, meanwhile his second channel moose2 has streams that are calm and great to sleep too.

Real calm voice, jazz in the background usually, still entertaining. Just don't put on any point and click adventure games to go to sleep because all the noises will be clicked repeatedly lol.

The Librarian for me, no competition. He analyzes horror games/stories so well and the dude has a very pleasant voice.

Warlockracy, but I don't think that's normal.

Wristwatch revival is a go to for me !

Wolfpack345 plays naval war games and has a voice like that. He usually does slow and strategic submarine stuff. Puts me right to sleep.

Ozzyman reviews. I sleep violently.

Danooct1 was this for me, though I've no idea if you'd be interested in old computer viruses.

Posy.

I've slept with each of these before:

LockpickingLawyer (lockpicking videos)

Trent Lenarski (multi content. specifically his Stardew Valley playlist is nice and relaxed)

Pekinwoof (streamer. Keep to his first channel for sleeping. Channel 2 is louder)

Talking Feds with Harry Litman (lawyer who talks law in politics)

Sean Carroll (podcasts. Various science topics)

Sam Harris (podcasts. Some episodes can get loud when he's playing recordings of news events.)

Dan Worrall

Have you tried ASMR videos? I'm sure there are lots of creators there that will hit all 3 for you.

Purge (https://youtube.com/@PurgeGamers) is pretty good. He typically posts full, un-cut dota games, and is lower energy throughout. There's not big volume or tone changes, and they're long enough that you should always be able to fall asleep during them.

Gopher, I found his channel learning how to mod various Bethesda games over 10 years ago but he has let's plays for various games that are great and put me to sleep when I'm tired

Don't know if they're on the tube, but I never made it through an episode of Brian Cox's Cosmos without nodding off.

Wirtual - trackmania streamer and ancient Egyptian expert

The guy who makes the vita carnie series and his art tutorials might not fit the second criteria

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