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Have to add Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. Did not expect to like the book as much as I did, and the audio book is a great performance! Everyone I have recommended it to has loved it. I have a new respect for the man also.
Text-to-speech goes by a few names. Some refer to it as TTS, read aloud, or even speech synthesis; for the more engineered name. Today, it simply means using artificial intelligence to read words aloud be; it from a PDF, email, docs, or any website. Instantly turn text into audio. Listen in English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or more and choose your accent and character to personalize your experience. Learn more
Listening experience heavily depends on the app you use. Speechify is the newest player in this market and brings modern features and offers the best listening experience. You can get a premium audiobook for just $1. So, try it out today!
There are audiobook apps that are now decades old and are clunky and were the only options. Speechify however, is the newer app that offers the best experience and is rapidly becoming popular in the AppStore and GooglePlay. The listening experience and care for users makes this one of the fastest growing audiobook apps.
Wow, this is so nice. I was referred to e-Audio Productions -AudioProductions.com (do you know them?) to help me self narrate my audiobook. I got so much information from them (that is also mentioned here) and help on my gear setup and settings. I am about to start reocrdings. The thing is that the audio will need editing because I believe I will be making a lot of mistakes during my reading and also cleanup and mixing to meet the technical requirements for audiobooks otherwise they tld me it can get rejected and that is basically why I am going with this company. The before and after examples were amazing!
One idea that comes to mind is to include a link to a page on my web site where the listener can access all the models and follow them while listening to the audiobook, and/or which could also be downloaded for free as a PDF. Your thoughts on this?
Hey, Rob. Just a quick thank you for this post. Recently published my first book and this post on how to do an audio version was supremely helpful. I pretty much copied your file as a model and duplicated it in Garageband. All new stuff for me so your step-by-step really helped Thanks much!
Hi Rob, thanks for all that you do for us novice audiobook authors. This is my fifth audiobook and when I downloaded my first file I got an error message from ACX. Under the category AMS (dB) which is greek to me, it has a red -38.6. What do you think I did wrong? Everything else in the ACX report is okay.
Great Article ! thanks for sharing . Can you advise on the following. I have a lot of books that I have kept from childhood. I would love to record to an audio book and share them with the world. What would you suggest ? where should i start ? should i inquire with the author and publishing company? .. I would appreciate your suggestions and insight . Thank you!
My son and I co-authored a non fiction real estate investing book. We have it on Amazon and would like to distribute on Audible. The tone of the book contrast my 35 years of self taught experience with my sons economics degree and millenial views. I think it would require two seperate voices to effectively narrate. We have done lots of video and have recoeding equipment, however we stay very busy and would like to get someone else to narrate. Do you have any idea how much we should budget for 220 pages?
Very informative article. My father is a writer from India with many books to his credit. He writes in Nepali language, a language which uses Devnagiri script. I am planning to re-sell some of his titles in Amazon and then get an audiobook of the same, and may use ACX. I was wondering if ACX provides services for audiobooks in languages other than English. Any idea on that?
Great! Nice stuff!After some research I found some online services that provide audiobook productions. At first I was thinking of narrating my own and then have -audioproductions.com/audio-book-editing do the post production (they have better rates and gave great tips for self recording) but I am thinking of doing a full production with a pro narrator with them now instead. Has anyone had any experience with such services?
Hey Rob, great post and video, thank you. I have a book (in paperback and ebook) but its not for sale on Amazon. Do i need to get it on Amazon before I can set up an ACX account and make an audiobook?
My friend wrote a book. He gave me permission to record it as an audiobook and then we plan to split the proceeds. Can we do that in the manner described above? Or does the reader and the author need to be the same?
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Nayyar's unlikely trajectory from an ordinary life in Delhi to starring in the second most-watched show on American television serves as fodder enough for his first book, Yes, My Accent Is Real. Released last month, the collection of autobiographical essays is earnest when it's not breezy: part subcontinental "Sandlot," part transcontinental Horatio Alger, full of recollections of childhood crushes -- on real and fictional girls -- and a litany of crummy jobs all too real for any aspiring actor.
If you decide to put the book on Audible (the leader in audiobook production) or other sites like Findaway Voices, you will still get sales from people who never took the time to visit your Amazon (or other) page.
SPS has a great post here about how to make an audiobook. It includes tips on prepping your content, recording, hiring narrators, equipment, uploading to ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) for Audible, and more.
Recognizing speech requires audio input, and SpeechRecognition makes retrieving this input really easy. Instead of having to build scripts for accessing microphones and processing audio files from scratch, SpeechRecognition will have you up and running in just a few minutes.
There is another reason you may get inaccurate transcriptions. Noise! The above examples worked well because the audio file is reasonably clean. In the real world, unless you have the opportunity to process audio files beforehand, you can not expect the audio to be noise-free.
Thank you! Listening is what I have problems with. So I really try to surround myself with useful resources and practice more often. I really like The British Council website, there are a lot of different tasks not only for listening. And it is really user friendly.And what do you think about videos on YouTube and social media? (For example from this list: -hub.blogspot.com/2019/08/816-free-time-hobbies.html) I understand that these are not special tasks to prepare for the exam but it is a good practice during leisure time.
Lisa and Rob co-host this podcast, which has dozens of episodes. Even the very first levels are conversation-based, and all episodes include transcripts. Rob is a learner and Lisa is native speaker (from Colombia, which tends to be a good accent for beginners in my opinion). Though the audio is sometimes not top-quality hey have a nice pace and a relaxed way about chatting together.
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