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Listen to Becoming

A short excerpt from Becoming by Michelle Obama, narrated by Vivienne. Try other narrators below, then bring your own DRM-free copy to hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Vivienne
Inviting, folksy Southern female voice, perfect for cooking shows, heartwarming family tales, and cozy radio ads.
I SPENT MUCH OF MY CHILDHOOD LISTENING TO THE sound of striving. It came in the form of bad music, or at least amateur music, coming up through the floorboards of my bedroom—the plink plink plink of students sitting downstairs at my great-aunt Robbie’s piano, slowly and imperfectly learning their scales.

About this sample

A memoir about a Chicago childhood needs warmth and steadiness. Vivienne’s folksy Southern voice gives the piano scales on the floor below a lived-in feel.
The excerpt is the book’s opening passage, a few sentences long, generated with the same narration pipeline the app uses for whole books. Every narrator you can pick above is available for your own files, in this and 40+ other languages.

How to listen to all of Becoming

1.
Get a DRM-free ebook of Becoming (see the guide on where to find DRM-free ebooks; store purchases with DRM cannot be opened).
2.
Drop the file above or open Book2Speech and choose it. Chapters are detected and front matter is skipped.
3.
Pick Vivienne or any other narrator and press play. The narration streams within seconds and your position syncs to the iPhone app.

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Yes. Tap any voice above to hear the same passage; 260+ narrators are available for your own books.

Is the sample the real product?

Yes. It was generated by the same pipeline that narrates whole books in the app.
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