Make Your Own Audio Books

By: Ivan Gerasymchuk

Do you travel often? Taking a long-haul flight can become easier and far less boring if you have a good reading with you. In a long-haul drive, however, you normally don't pay too much attention to a regular or electronic book without causing an accident. The solution? Audio books.

Audio books are great when you need to kill some time. Their entertainment and educational value is hard to underestimate. Pick a fiction book, and you're likely to enjoy the long flight, drive or walk. Bring a language course, and you'll have a chance to learn another language while doing regular driving. In this article, you will learn how to save money by making your own audio books in just minutes instead of buying them for $20-40 apiece.

Text-to-speech is the only technology that can produce speech from ordinary texts. Text-to-speech is not new, but we're still not there in terms of audio quality. Synthetic voices, spelling and punctuation issues, software limitations and the lack of adequate psychological models of human narration plague many old and current text-to-speech engines, making audio books produced with, say, Microsoft TTS engine that comes bundled with Windows sound unnatural at best.

Fortunately, there are computer programs designed to make computer-generated audio books easy on the ear. Pistonsoft Text to Voice Converter can take texts and documents of any size and create high-quality audio books of any length. Its newly designed text-to-speech engine makes long narrations sound natural and easy on the ear. The developers of this handy audio book creation tool tweaked the regular psychological model of modern text-to-speech engines, enhancing it with Smart Pause.

Smart Pause is precisely the reason that makes the audio books created by Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter easy on the ear. As computers don't breathe, they produce narrations that sound uncomfortable to the human ear. The computer-generated narrations, while pausing at dots and commas, completely lack pauses that a human narrator would need to catch their breath. As a result, the speech becomes too monotonous, and very soon the listener gets the uncomfortable feeling of suffocation.

Smart Pause makes Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter 'breathe'. The text-to-speech engine used in the audio book producer automatically detects moments when a human narrator would need to breathe in, and makes appropriate pauses in the reading. As a result, the long-playing audio books sound more natural and easier on the ear than those made with competing text-to-speech conversion tools.

Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter lets you select any SAPI 5 voices installed on your computer or download an extra one from the Cepstral Web site. You control the speed and volume of your audio book to create readings most comfortable to your taste.

Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter can be downloaded from Pistonsoft.com

Article Source: http://www.newarticledaily.com

PistonSoft.com (www.pistonsoft.com) is a privately held software company committed to providing quality audio software solutions. Founded in 2004, our company specializes in the audio tools.

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