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How to listen to a book that has no audiobook

The out-of-print novel, the academic monograph, the translation nobody recorded. If you have the ebook, you have the audiobook: drop it here and press play.

Plenty of great books never got a narrator

Audiobooks get made for bestsellers. Backlist titles, small-press fiction, academic books, translations, self-published gems and books in smaller languages often never get recorded. With Book2Speech, the copy you own is enough.

Make it in three steps

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Find your copy as a DRM-free file: EPUB, PDF, Word, MOBI, AZW3, FB2 or TXT.
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Drop it here. Chapters are detected and playback starts where the book starts, past the copyright page and the contents.
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Pick one of 265 narrators and press play. It starts in seconds.

Keep it

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Open the book in the Editor and choose Download audiobook.
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Pick a format: M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. You get one file with chapters, cover and book details.
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Play it offline in Apple Books, VLC or any audiobook app.

Listen anywhere

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In any browser, on iPhone and iPad, and in the Mac app.
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Your place follows you from device to device.
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Speed, sleep timer, bookmarks and read-along text in every player.

Questions people ask

What if my copy has DRM?

Store copies locked with DRM open only in the store’s own app. Many publishers and shops sell DRM-free ebooks, and every free classic is DRM-free.

Can I download books in any language?

Yes, in all 42 languages. Standard voices narrate English books free; Premium voices narrate every language, from your plan’s Premium hours.

How many books can I make?

Free includes 1 book of your own and 1 download; Listener 3 of each, Premium 15, Ultra unlimited.

Is the book I want already free?

If it is a classic, quite possibly: 70,000 public-domain books are ready to play in Discover.
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