Executive summary about book to audio by Guy McDowell
Step 1: Get a Good Free Text to Speech (TTS) Program
The first step to convert e-book to MP3 audio is getting a good Text to Speech (TTS) Program. Of the three Text to Speech software apps I tested with my text file of tongue twisters, the one I liked best was Spesoft’s Free Text To MP3 Speaker. I also tried Speakonia and Ultra Hal Text to Speech Reader. Unfortunately, those two do not convert the text directly to Mp3 format – just .wav. Other than that, they didn’t have as many choices on recording quality as Spesoft’s.
Step 2: Get a Good Book
The second step to convert e-book to MP3 audio is getting a good book. Project Gutenberg is probably the best known. Go on over, search for a topic and find the book you would like to read. Now download it. Please consider making a donation to Project Gutenberg if you can. It is really a great resource that has been going for about 30 years now.
Step 3: Edit the Text as Necessary
The third step to convert e-book to MP3 audio is editing the text. Keep in mind that older book often has different spelling or curious characters that might not be read properly by your TTS program.
Step 4: Open the Book in Your TTS
The next step to convert e-book to MP3 audio is to open the book in Text to Speech program. Click on the Load Text from File button:
From there, navigate to the text file you want converted. Select that text file, and click on Open.
Now, your text should appear in the main part of the program, just like this!
Step 5: Let the TTS Do It's Thing
This is the time saver part. Just hit Record and Create Audio File, save it with the file name you want.
Now you have finished converting e-book to MP3 audio. Spesoft TTS software also allows you to choose different voices, adjust the speed, pitch and volume of the voice as well as tweak the recording quality.
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