How Levantine Arabic is written
Levantine Arabic is spoken in Syria and Lebanon.
Levantine Arabic (Shami) is the spoken Arabic of Damascus, Beirut and Aleppo. Books in the Arab world are usually written in Modern Standard Arabic; for those, choose Arabic, which has its own site. Choose Levantine Arabic for text written the way people speak, such as dialogue, plays and colloquial fiction.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Levantine Arabic 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 Levantine Arabic in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Right-to-left text is read in its natural order; keep the file as Unicode text, 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 Levantine Arabic 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 Levantine Arabic can look like Arabic. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Levantine Arabic as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Levantine Arabic: 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 Levantine Arabic
Levantine Arabic 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 Levantine Arabic book.
Keep your Levantine Arabic audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Levantine Arabic 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 Levantine Arabic aloud?
Yes, as an Experimental language. Premium voices read Levantine Arabic as a best effort, and quality can vary widely, so listen to a few minutes of your book first.
Is Levantine Arabic narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Levantine Arabic book. After that, Levantine Arabic 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 Levantine Arabic book is detected as another language?
Choose Levantine Arabic as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Levantine Arabic. It can happen when a passage looks like Arabic.
Can I download a Levantine Arabic 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.