Audiobook Maker
Hear your whole book in one warm, steady narrator voice. Drop in the manuscript, keep the chapters you want, and the audiobook maker narrates them while you get on with your day.
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
795 characters · 1 credit to narrate
Narrated by: Dashiell (AI Voice)
What is read
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
- EPUB, PDF, Word and plain text
- 4 formats
- 9 languages, one per book
- 40 narrators
- chapter marks and a file per chapter
- M4B + MP3
- to download your audiobook files
- 30 days
What does an audiobook maker do?
An audiobook maker turns written text into narrated audio. This one reads your EPUB, PDF or Word file in the browser, splits it into chapters, narrates each chapter with a natural AI voice, then hands you an M4B audiobook with chapter marks and an MP3 for every chapter.
How to convert a book to an audiobook
Four steps from a manuscript to a finished audiobook.
Drop in your book
Add an EPUB, PDF, Word document or plain text, up to 100 MB. The audiobook maker reads it in your browser and lists every chapter.
Audiobook MakerDrop your book here
epubmoby-dick.epub700 KBPick chapters and a narrator
Front matter, contents and license pages start unticked. Choose one of 40 narrators and hear the first passage of your own book free.
Audiobook MakerChapters136 of 142 to narrate- EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)Front matter
- EXTRACTSFront matter
- Chapter 1: Loomings2,220 words
- Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag1,438 words
Start the narration
See the exact credits before you start. Several chapters are narrated at once, and each plays as soon as it is ready.
Audiobook MakerThis book needs
1,190Credits
21 h 6 min · 1,189,962 characters
Start, 1,190 creditsDownload M4B and MP3
Save an M4B audiobook with chapter marks and cover, plus a ZIP with an MP3 for every chapter, both mastered to audiobook levels.
Audiobook MakerMoby-Dick.m4b21 h 6 min · 136 chaptersZIPMoby-Dick MP3.zip136 MP3 files
Why authors choose this audiobook maker
Built for whole books, from the first chapter to the last page.
Words in the book
217,407
The chapters add up to the whole book
- 136 chapters read
- 210,007
- 6 sections left out
- 7,400
Keep every word of every chapter
Chapters that span several files inside an EPUB are joined before narration, and a word count check confirms the chapters add up to the whole book, so no paragraph goes missing.
- Project Gutenberg headerProject Gutenberg text
- MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALEFront matter
- ETYMOLOGYFront matter
- EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)Front matter
- EXTRACTSFront matter
Left out: 6 sections, 7,400 words, about 48 min, saving 45 credits.
Pay only for the story
Copyright pages, contents, indexes and license text are left out by default, and the estimate shows the credits that saves. One click adds any section back.
DashiellCalm, AmericanFree previewCall me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would…
Moby-Dick · Herman Melville
Hear your own first passage free
Before you spend anything, listen to the opening of your book in the narrator you picked. No account is needed for the preview.
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
136 chapter marks
- 0:00:00Chapter 1: Loomings
- 0:13:00Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag
- 0:21:24Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn
- 0:55:24Chapter 4: The Counterpane
- 1:05:06Chapter 5: Breakfast
Get M4B and MP3 from one run
One narration gives you both files: an M4B audiobook with chapter marks, cover and author for listening apps, and an MP3 per chapter for publishing.
Target band −23 to −18 dB
Ceiling −3 dB
Every chapter is mastered to these levels
Match audiobook loudness, with a report
Each chapter is levelled to the range audiobook stores ask for, RMS between −23 and −18 dB with peaks under −3 dB, gets room tone at both ends, and comes with a level report.
2 of 136 chapters ready
- Chapter 1: Loomings13 min
- Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag8 min
- Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn5 of 13 parts
- Chapter 4: The CounterpaneWaiting
Listen while the rest is made
Finished chapters play straight away. Close the page if you like: the AI audiobook generator keeps working and emails you when the book is ready.
Audiobook maker guide
Prepare your book for the AI audiobook generator
An EPUB gives the cleanest result: its table of contents names every chapter, and the audiobook maker follows it. A PDF works best when you can select its text, and a Word document when chapter titles use the Heading 1 style.
Plain text and pasted text start a new chapter at each line such as "Chapter 2" or "第二章". Before you start, rename or merge any chapter in the list.
Where the chapters come from
- EPUBIts table of contents
- PDFIts bookmarks or chapter lines
- DOCXHeading 1 titles
- TXTLines such as “Chapter 2”
Exporting your manuscript to EPUB from your writing app gives the audiobook maker the most accurate chapter titles.
What the audiobook maker leaves out
Listeners skip the copyright page, the contents list and the index, so those start unticked, along with the Project Gutenberg header and license on public domain books. The chapter list shows each one with its word count, and the estimate shows the credits you keep by leaving them out.
Want the dedication or the acknowledgements read too? Tick them back in and the price updates at once.
- Everything ticked1,235 credits
- The story only1,190 credits
Choose a narrator for your audiobook
Pick from 40 narrators in 9 languages: 16 for English, American, British, Australian and Indian, young to older, 6 for Mandarin Chinese, and 2 or 3 each for Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean. Each has a sample to play, and the free preview reads the start of your own book.
The voice you choose reads the whole book, so every chapter sounds like the same narrator from start to finish.
- DashiellCalm, American
SuttonConfident, American
FenwickGentle, American
XanderSerious, British
LinneaRelaxed, US Southern
IsoldeEasy-going, American
How long it takes to convert a book to an audiobook
Several chapters are narrated side by side, and the first chapter is usually ready to play within minutes. You can leave the page at any time; the work continues and an email tells you when your audiobook is finished.
Making the M4B and MP3 files then runs in your browser at about 50 times real time, so on a typical computer a 10 hour audiobook is ready to save in around 12 minutes.
M4B or MP3: which audiobook file to use
M4B is the audiobook format: one file with chapter marks, the cover, title and author. Apple Books and most audiobook apps on iPhone and Android show its chapters and remember where you stopped.
MP3 files, one per chapter, are what audiobook stores take when you publish, and they play on every device. Your download includes a level report for each file.
One file with chapters
M4B with chapters, for Apple Books and most audiobook players
136 MP3 files
An MP3 per chapter in a ZIP, for publishing
Publishing an audiobook made with AI narration
Google Play Books, Kobo and Spotify for Authors accept audiobooks narrated by a digital voice. When you upload, mark the narrator as a synthesized or digital voice; the export panel gives you the credit line and the description sentence stores ask for.
Audible and ACX accept human narration for titles from independent authors, so use those stores for a recording you make yourself. You need the audiobook rights to your book, and public domain classics make lovely audiobooks to enjoy at home.
Ebook to audiobook in Chinese
The audiobook maker reads Chinese books too, including plain text saved in GBK, and recognises chapter lines such as 第一章. There are 6 Mandarin narrators, male and female, to read them in a natural voice. The audiobook maker reads books in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean the same way, with chapter lines such as Capítulo 1, Chapitre II, Kapitel 3, 第一話 and 제1장.
Each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character counts as two characters when credits are worked out, and the estimate shows the exact number before you start.
我在倒数上去的二十年中，只看过两回中国戏，前十年是绝不看，因为没有看戏的意思和机会，那两回全在后十年，然而都没有看出什么来就走了。
社戏 · 鲁迅
- Characters
- 65
- Billing characters
- 124
Who uses an AI audiobook generator
Independent authors
Hear your manuscript the way readers will, catch clunky sentences by ear, then publish the audiobook to stores that welcome digital narration.
Readers and commuters
Turn public domain classics and your own DRM-free ebooks into an audiobook for the drive, the gym or a long walk.
Students and teachers
Convert course readings, theses and lecture notes into audio to review on the bus or share with a class.
Small publishers
Bring a backlist to audio title by title, with the same narrator across a series and files ready for listening apps.
Audiobook maker questions
Make your audiobook today
Drop in your book, hear the first passage free, and let the audiobook maker narrate the rest.