Make Your Own Audio Books

Do you drive often? Surviving a long-haul trip can be made easier and more entertaining if you take a good reading with you. In a long-haul drive, however, you usually don't spend too much time to a printed or electronic book without crashing into someone. The solution? Audio books.

Audio books are a great way to kill some time. Their entertainment and educational value is hard to underestimate. Bring a fiction book, and you're likely to breathe through the long flight, drive or walk. Choose a language course, and you'll get a chance to learn the language while doing regular trips. In this manual, you will learn how to save money by producing your own fiction and education audio books in seconds instead of buying them for $20-40 apiece.

Text-to-speech is the only computer technology that can produce voice out ot ordinary texts. The technology is far from being new, but we're still not there in terms of voice quality. Unnatural voices, spelling and punctuation problems, software limitations and the lack of good psychological models of human speech plague many old and current text-to-voice products, making audio books generated with, say, Microsoft TTS engine that comes included in Windows sound unnatural at best.

Luckily, there are products developed to make computer-generated reading easy on the ear. Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter can take texts of any size and create quality audio books of any length. Its newly developed text-to-speech engine makes long readings sound natural and easy on the ear. The developers of this handy e-book to voice converter tweaked the usual psychological model of modern text-to-speech algorithms, enhancing it with Smart Pause.

Smart Pause is exactly what makes the audio books produced by Pistonsoft Text to Speech Converter easy on the ear. As computers don't breathe, they generate narrations that sound uncomfortable to the human ear. The computer-generated narrations, while stopping at dots and commas, completely lack pauses that a human reader 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 algorithm used in the audio book converter automatically detects moments when a human reader would need to inhale, and makes appropriate pauses in the reading. As a result, the long-playing audio books sound more natural and easier on the ear than audio books produced with competing text to voice engines.

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

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

By: Ivan Gerasymchuk

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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.