Posts Tagged: audiobook

Audiobooks in the Hybrid Publishing Workflow

By reiniervriend, January 30, 2017

A bit if context This is the last of a series of posts that belong to a research aimed at automated production of an audiobook within the Hybrid Publishing Workflow. Previous posts revolve around the first audiobooks, text-to-speech software inquiries and a semi-automated approach to the task and its manual counterpart. The Hybrid Publishing Workflow [...]

Craft your own audiobook

By reiniervriend, July 12, 2016

Make your own audiobook using synthetic speech. You can follow the steps below for a ‘manual’ process or use these python scripts for a semi-automated version. You need python installed in your computer if you use the latter. The audiobook we’ll make consists of a m4b file, which is a container format just like mp4 [...]

Text-to-Speech Software

By reiniervriend, May 23, 2016

In this post, I presented an overview of the process to implement text-to-speech into the Hybrid Publishing workflow. The first step in this process requires deciding upon the text-to-speech (TTS) software. The choice of the software should take into account a few parameters: quality of available voices, ease of install and use, platform support, documentation, [...]

Mary Had a Little Lamb*

By reiniervriend, April 13, 2016

The PublishingLab is currently researching an experimental branch of the Hybrid Publishing Workflow: digital audiobooks. Nowadays, these are basically composed of audio files and meta tags and allow bookmarking, meaning that the reader can resume from the point they left the last reading session. Audiobooks make written work accessible to people with vision impairment but [...]