How to make audio book


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I've a lot of books that needed to be converted to audio format.

Please how can I do so!?

Note:- no copy right violation as it is a very old books and here in Egypt it is not violating any law.

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  • Get a recorder.
  • Push "record."
  • Open the book at the first page.
  • Start reading out loud.
  • Stop recording when you have finished reading the last page.
  • Rewind to the beginning of the recording.

There, you've created an audiobook!

While that might come across as being a bit sarcastic, if you go to Google and try to find alternative options you appear to be hard-pressed. The only other thing I could think of doing would be to see if there is a program that can interpret the words on a page and translate them in to audio, but even if the computer understood what it was reading there would be no emotion (try getting your computer to read your word document back to you) and you'd also have to scan the pages one at a time on to the computer.

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I tried the normal microphone but always got a lot of noise and distortion.

So please advise :)

You will get noise, it's pretty unavoidable with an amateur setup. The trick is the post-processing after you've finished reading. You'll want to put the audio file through a program (as lunamonkey suggested, Audacity can be pretty good and it's free) and mess around with the levels until you've cancelled out the background noise.

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What do you mean by levels?

Since Audacity has been suggested, we may as well stick with that. See here and here for an idea of what I'm talking about.

Basically (and this might not be correct, it's just the way that I see it) audio records at multiple levels to capture as much sound as possible. Your job after recording will be to remove or lessen the levels that are causing background noise to occur.

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Since Audacity has been suggested, we may as well stick with that. See here and here for an idea of what I'm talking about.

Basically (and this might not be correct, it's just the way that I see it) audio records at multiple levels to capture as much sound as possible. Your job after recording will be to remove or lessen the levels that are causing background noise to occur.

Yes this is what I exactly need because all kind of voices being recording in the back ground.
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Yes this is what I exactly need because all kind of voices being recording in the back ground.

You won't be able to remove other voices. Background noise removal is best when it's a constant, specific noise. Like a low rumbling, or static due to interferance.

The only way to remove noise from other voices is to remove yourself and sit in a cupboard or something.... that or some very good editing where you blank the noise manually by inserting emptyness over the top.

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Does there is any software that do this job well?

The best software to find a cupboard? It's difficult to say since they discontinued support on ClosetCompanion 2.3.

Try Audacity though... it's best becuase it's free

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You can reduce noise by using a shielded microphone, many amateur singers do this.

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Note the shielding around the head of the microphone, this reduces its sensitivity and hence blocks most sound quieter than your voice. You can also get shields that wrap around your current mic, rather than buying a special shielded mic.

Audacity is excellent free software that can fix most post processing issues. I've had troubles using it with with more than 7 or 8 channels (timing seems to mess up) but that's unlikely to be an issue if your not recording audio.

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