How Amharic is written
Amharic is spoken in Ethiopia.
Amharic is written in the Ge’ez script (fidel), where each character is a whole syllable: a consonant with its vowel. Use Unicode text; older documents typed with legacy Ethiopic fonts look right on screen but store Latin letters underneath.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Amharic text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
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PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of Amharic in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Keep the text as Unicode, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
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No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From Amharic book to audiobook
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. If the book opens with the wrong language, for example because it starts with a long introduction in another language, choose Amharic as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Amharic: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
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Press play. Chapters, read-along text, speed, a sleep timer and your place synced between devices work as in every other language.
What Beta means for Amharic
Amharic is one of our Beta languages. Premium voices read it well, but the sound varies more from one narrator to the next than in our 42 main languages.
So play a sample with two or three narrators before you start a long book, and keep the one whose Amharic sounds right to you.
Keep your Amharic audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Amharic books are narrated with Premium voices, so a download uses your plan’s Premium hours. Play it in Apple Books, any audiobook app or the car, offline.
Questions people ask
Can Book2Speech read Amharic aloud?
Yes. Amharic is a Beta language: Premium voices read it, and quality varies more by voice than in our 42 main languages. Drop a book and hear it in seconds.
Is Amharic narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Amharic book. After that, Amharic needs a paid plan, from Listener at $4.99/month or $49.90/year. Standard voices, unlimited on every plan, read English only.
What if my Amharic book is detected as another language?
Choose Amharic as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Amharic.
Can I download an Amharic audiobook?
Yes. Download audiobook makes one file with chapters, cover and book details (M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV), narrated with Premium voices from your plan’s Premium hours.