Read-to-Me reads a book aloud with a computer voice and saves it as an audiobook.
In Broadcast: Library, Books, Read-to-Me. Set up under Server, Kinds of media, Books and Read-to-Me.
In Classic or Neu: Library, Ebooks, Read-to-Me. Set up under Settings, Extras, Read-to-Me.
Turns an ebook into an audiobook with a computer voice, made here on your own computer. The audiobook goes in your Audiobooks library, with chapters and the cover, and plays in Usherr, Audiobookshelf and phone apps.
Only books that are downloaded as EPUB can be read aloud. Tap the one you want.
▶ on a voice plays a short sample. Everyday voices are quick to make; expressive ones sound more human but take a lot longer.
Plays about 200 words of the book in that voice, before you commit. It takes a few seconds to make.
Press Make the audiobook.
It takes a while: the page says how long. You can leave, it carries on. Listen while it is being made plays the chapters already done, and the finished book appears in Audiobooks.
To get a notice when it’s done: Settings, Notifications, tick Audiobooks made.
Turns an ebook into an audiobook with a computer voice, made here on your own computer. The audiobook goes in your Audiobooks library, with chapters and the cover, and plays in Usherr, Audiobookshelf and phone apps.
Only books that are downloaded as EPUB can be read aloud. Tap the one you want.
Simple shows the three steps that matter. Press Full to see all six: you’ll walk through each.
Lights one step at a time and dims the rest. Leave it on if you like it; it works alongside this walkthrough.
Which chapters, whether the title and chapter titles are read, and the pauses after paragraphs, scene breaks and chapters. The contents and copyright pages are left out by themselves.
The voice, or a preset (a saved way of reading, like Warm narrator). With an everyday voice, Mix in a second voice blends two.
One voice for everything, a second voice for what’s in quotation marks, or a voice for each character. Usherr finds the characters and who says each line.
The speed (0.8× to 1.3×) and how the reading sounds. Change one thing at a time and press Hear a sample.
Names a voice gets wrong can be written how they sound: Hermione → her-MY-oh-nee. For this book, or for every book.
Plays about 200 words of the book in that voice, before you commit. It takes a few seconds to make.
The Make it step shows how long the book is and how long making it should take. Save these settings as a preset to use them again.
Press Make the audiobook.
It takes a while: the page says how long. You can leave, it carries on. Listen while it is being made plays the chapters already done, and the finished book appears in Audiobooks.
To get a notice when it’s done: Settings, Notifications, tick Audiobooks made.