The holy grail for Audio books is Audible.com. Getting your book into them is a challenge. That doesn't mean that you don't have other options available.
In this idea, produced a 5 minute youtube with your audioclip. So the audience will have something to look at, display your book cover, any associated images. Occasionally, display a text message telling where they can find your ebook and/or paperback. In my example, I have a book give away contest going.
In this idea, produced a 5 minute youtube with your audioclip. So the audience will have something to look at, display your book cover, any associated images. Occasionally, display a text message telling where they can find your ebook and/or paperback. In my example, I have a book give away contest going.
Once the audio clip is live on youtube, go to Smashwords and add the URL of the video to your ebook. This is assuming Smashwords.com is one of the sites you have your ebook published through.
I have been finding my $50 Amazon Fire Tablet very useful. One of the voices in the free word processing app is really impressive. It just might be good enough to use to make audio books. I feel confident that it is better than my own reading voice.
To make my audio sample, I connected two computers together. The Amazon Fire tablet ran the text to speech app for five minutes. The second computer recorded the audio, saving it as an mp3 file.
If you decide to use a program to read your book, expect to program to mangle the occasional word. You can fix this by changing the spelling of the problem words. Sometimes, breaking the problem work into pieces can fix the problem. For example, spacesuit becomes space-suit.
Text to speech sometimes have problem with the timing of some sentences. They don't pause in the right places. This usually can be fixed by adding extra commas and periods.
I produced the video using Windows Live Movie Maker that came free on my Windows computer.
If you found this interesting, you might like my book, The Independent Author's Handbook, 2nd edition. It is available on Amazon.com (ebook), Amazon.com (paperback) and Smashwords.
