How Santali is written
Santali is spoken in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha in India, and Bangladesh and Nepal.
Santali is a Munda language, unrelated to its Indo-Aryan neighbours, with its own alphabet, Ol Chiki, created by Raghunath Murmu in 1925. It is also written in Bengali, Odia, Devanagari and Latin scripts.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Santali 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 Santali 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 Santali 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. If the book opens with the wrong language, for example because it starts with a long introduction in another language, choose Santali as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Santali: 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 Santali
Santali 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 Santali book.
Keep your Santali audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Santali 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 Santali aloud?
Yes, as an Experimental language. Premium voices read Santali as a best effort, and quality can vary widely, so listen to a few minutes of your book first.
Is Santali narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Santali book. After that, Santali 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 Santali book is detected as another language?
Choose Santali as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Santali.
Can I download a Santali 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.
Which Santali script can I use?
Santali is written in Ol Chiki, Devanagari, the Bengali script, the Odia script and the Latin alphabet. 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.