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*Video:how to turn your printed books into listenable audio books
I show you how you can LISTEN TO your HARD COPY books, none of which you had time to READ in the past.
You can convert your PRINTED books into natural AUDIO files and leave the reading up to your ears during your wasted time!
- Published by booklistener | Janos Nemeth in: How to Convert
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20 Responses to “Make Your Printed Books Listenable”
seems to be a liltle bit difficult process
Hi bkrder,
three main steps and only the first one needs your personal work:
1. Shooting book images (2 pages at a single shot), it takes 5-10 minutes for a complete book.
2. Character recognition
3. Generating mp3 audio.
I guess it is very simple.
Rgs,
Janos
Machine voices are all horrible
Have you heard my sample in the video at all? Send me a piece of text and I will send you back in mp3 as a trial.
I feel my read-up voice what I usually listen to as a friend. He is like a human in 95%. It takes only the first chapter to get familiar.
I’ve just driven a round to the city and listened to the first 58min of my new self-made audio book “Outliers: The Story of Success”.
1 hour fun instead of 1 hour nervousness.
Janos
if you do not have a camera to take a pictures of a book.
can you use a scanner to make a book into an audiobook?
if so what are the steps to do it?
thank you for your time.
yes, you can use a scanner also however it is far slower: a simple scanner takes several secs just for the scanning and then you need to open it up, turn a page, close the top of the scanner, etc. I tried but it is frustrating slowly. After the scanning, the process is the same to make it audible. Rgs, John / Janos
I have 3 books I need changed into audio. Please tell me how to go about getting this done.
Hello Eric,
Have you seen my video? Let me know what is not clear in that.
Rgs,
John
My friend owns 5 books that she wants to turn to audio. If I do that for her and not keep a copy for myself but for her alone, do you think it’s legal?
Great video, by the way!
Hi Kevin,
Based on my local (Hungarian) law it is not allowed to make copy for someone else. You can make for your own usage but not a third party. I do not think it could be checked or controlled any way but this is the law. Your national rules may be different. Personally I do not think it makes any difference who makes the copy if it is not for unlegal resale or distribution.
hi,
do you charge any thing for this conversation ?
Do you mean “conversion”? Regularly I do not make conversion to others I just show the way how to do it. However if you send me some book page images by email I make you a sample.
Hi,
Do you think it will be possible to get a professionaly edited audio book from the e-book version?
I’m an author by the way.
Kingsley
If you mean “professionally edited” to be well structured then yes it is no problem. It will sounds as the sample in my video, not a live human voice exactly.
Which program has a more accurate OCR technology for recognizing images to convert to text, Omnipage or Natural Reader? Why not get natural Reader since it has the entire conversion process in one program?
Natural Reader has no OCR function included. Omnipage has very sofisticated functions to improve accuracy.
do you need a software and download
Hi there, I am curious to know what kind of camera do you use? I may purchase the Canon PowerShot SX130 IS 12 Megapixel Digital Camera with 12x Optical Zoom, 3″ LCD, Optical Image Stabilizer, PictBridge, Blink Detection, Black
not sure if this will work or not, can you recommend a place to get a stand?
Virtually any camera is OK above 5-8 megapixel if you use it on stand (but even from hand in good light condtion). Try the process with any camera before spending a lot. PowerShot is excellent (I have an SX1 now) . If it has a remote controller (shooter) it makes the process much comfortable and quicker. I use a Giotto MT9340 stand, I am sure you can buy similar in any photo shop, ask for table-top tripod for document photo.
thank you for your suggestions, I used my camera and had success with your tips! thanks again,
David
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