How Neapolitan is written
Neapolitan is spoken in Naples and Campania, in southern Italy. Books in Neapolitan use the Latin alphabet.
Neapolitan softens unstressed final vowels to a neutral sound that writers mark in different ways, and much of its written tradition is song, theatre and poetry. A short text can pass for Italian.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan can look like Italian. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Neapolitan as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Neapolitan: 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 Neapolitan
Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan book.
Keep your Neapolitan audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan aloud?
Yes, as an Experimental language. Premium voices read Neapolitan as a best effort, and quality can vary widely, so listen to a few minutes of your book first.
Is Neapolitan narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Neapolitan book. After that, Neapolitan 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 Neapolitan book is detected as another language?
Choose Neapolitan as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Neapolitan. It can happen when a passage looks like Italian.
Can I download a Neapolitan 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.