How Nepali is written
Nepali is spoken in Nepal, and Sikkim and Darjeeling in India.
Nepali is written in Devanagari. Older documents typed with Preeti and other legacy fonts store Latin letters underneath, so convert them to Unicode before you upload.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Nepali 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 Nepali 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 Nepali 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 Nepali can look like Hindi. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Nepali as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Nepali: 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 Nepali
Nepali 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 Nepali sounds right to you.
Keep your Nepali audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Nepali 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 Nepali aloud?
Yes. Nepali 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 Nepali narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Nepali book. After that, Nepali 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 Nepali book is detected as another language?
Choose Nepali as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Nepali. It can happen when a passage looks like Hindi.
Can I download a Nepali 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.