How Javanese is written
Javanese is spoken in Central and East Java, Indonesia.
Javanese is written in the Latin alphabet today; the traditional Javanese script, hanacaraka, is taught in schools and found in older texts. The language has speech levels, ngoko and krama, with different words for the same thing depending on who you speak to.
What to upload
•
EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Javanese text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
•
PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of Javanese in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
•
Keep the text as Unicode, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
•
No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From Javanese book to audiobook
1.
Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
2.
Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. A short or mixed text in Javanese can look like Indonesian. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Javanese as the book’s language in the app.
3.
Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Javanese: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
4.
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 Javanese
Javanese 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 Javanese sounds right to you.
Keep your Javanese audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Javanese 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 Javanese aloud?
Yes. Javanese 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 Javanese narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Javanese book. After that, Javanese 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 Javanese book is detected as another language?
Choose Javanese as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Javanese. It can happen when a passage looks like Indonesian.
Can I download a Javanese 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.
Which Javanese script can I use?
Javanese is written in the Latin alphabet and the Javanese script (Aksara Jawa). Upload the book as Unicode text in the script it was published in, and listen to a chapter first: results can vary from one script to another.