How Bhojpuri is written
Bhojpuri is spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh in India, Nepal, and communities in Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad.
Bhojpuri is written in Devanagari, historically also in Kaithi. It shares the script and much vocabulary with Hindi, so a Bhojpuri book can be taken for Hindi.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Bhojpuri 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 Bhojpuri 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 Bhojpuri 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. A short or mixed text in Bhojpuri can look like Hindi. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Bhojpuri as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Bhojpuri: 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 Experimental means for Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri is one of our Experimental languages: we narrate it as a best effort. Quality can vary widely, from book to book and from narrator to narrator, and some words may come out with an accent or the wrong stress.
Listen to the first few minutes before you settle in, and try another narrator if one doesn’t suit your Bhojpuri book.
Keep your Bhojpuri audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Bhojpuri 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 Bhojpuri aloud?
Yes, as an Experimental language. Premium voices read Bhojpuri as a best effort, and quality can vary widely, so listen to a few minutes of your book first.
Is Bhojpuri narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Bhojpuri book. After that, Bhojpuri 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 Bhojpuri book is detected as another language?
Choose Bhojpuri as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Bhojpuri. It can happen when a passage looks like Hindi.
Can I download a Bhojpuri 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. Listen to a chapter first to be sure you like it.