How To Make An Audiobook In 10 Simple Steps
We recommend that you block out a significant amount of time to complete your self-recorded audiobook. You can also do a simple Google search to find those who have a career in narrating audiobooks. The next step in the creation of your audiobook is actually recording the book.
“When we’re reading, we’re using parts of the brain that evolved for other purposes, and we’re MacGyvering them so they can be applied to the cognitive task of reading,” he explains. Listeners, on the other hand, can derive a lot of information from a speaker’s inflections or intonations. Sarcasm is much more easily communicated via audio than printed text. And people who hear Shakespeare spoken out loud tend to glean a lot of meaning from the actor’s delivery, he adds. If you’re reading, it’s pretty easy to go back and find the point at which you zoned out. It’s not so easy if you’re listening to a recording, Daniel says.
“We found no significant differences in comprehension between reading, listening, or reading and listening simultaneously,” Rogowsky says. If you're wondering where to get audiobooks, you again have many options. Most online sellers will let you listen to the audiobook on more than one device.
“If you’re casting them for the right reasons, then a big name is brilliant,” says Barrett, who got Kenneth Branagh to narrate Murder On The Orient Express. Those were good reasons and he did a fantastic job.” But a celebrity narrator can present as many challenges as a first-time author. “I have had other experiences,” says Barrett, “where wiser heads such as mine did not prevail, and we went with a starrier casting.” She will not be drawn further. “You have to live with your recording for a long time,” is all she says. Many are finding books from the public domain and turning those titles into audiobooks. Patrons can conduct research using library databases or borrow and download music, e-books, and audiobooks from the library's website.
The Art of Writing a Non-Fiction Book is on sale on Kindle, print, and audio now. Occasionally, I found an error in my manuscript or a sentence that didn’t sound right. I took note of what these were in a notepad and keep going until the end of the chapter. Then, I opened up a PDF version and turned on my microphone. Print out the chapter you intend to Big Dawg079 narrate using a large double-spaced font. Prop the pages up on a document holder so you can transition from one page to the next without making much noise.
If you constantly have to delete apps and photos just to win a couple of extra bites, streaming is your way. You can stream Audible premium audiobooks on your computer or by using Audiobooks.com. Daniel coauthored a 2010 study that found students who listened to a podcast lesson performed worse on a comprehension quiz than students who read the same lesson on paper. “And the podcast group did a lot worse, not a little worse,” he says. Compared to the readers, the listeners scored an average of 28% lower on the quiz—about the difference between an A or a D grade, he says. Not all ebooks are downloadable , some can only be viewed within a browser, web app or webpage.
Joanna Penn from the Creative Penn explains how to use audio for book sales and marketingin her podcast. It took me a lot of time to narrate The Art of Writing a Non-Fiction Book, proof the recordings, and re-record troublesome parts of this title. Unless you have solid audio editing skills, I recommend sending your files to an editor. They will find and fix audio errors you may miss and help master the files for publication. So before you record a version for editing, read the chapter in question aloud.
Most people can speak at the rate of 8,000 to 9,000 words per hour, and its hard work to speak for an hour unless you’re a voice actor! Voice actors can just go into their studio, sit down, and knock out hours of recording on end. Like any technical skill, if you’re doing it for the first time, it’s going to take a LONG time. I actually recorded the audio for my book Recording Audiobooks myself!