EPUB to Audiobook
Your EPUB already knows where every chapter starts. The EPUB to audiobook converter follows its table of contents, keeps the cover and author, and hands you an M4B with chapter marks plus an MP3 for each chapter.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
731 characters · 1 credit to narrate
Narrated by: Linnea (AI Voice)
What is read
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
- checked against the whole book
- Word count
- cover, title and author in both
- M4B + MP3
- one narrator for the whole book
- 40 voices
- the EPUB is read in your browser
- On device
How do I convert an EPUB to an audiobook?
Drop a DRM-free EPUB into the tool above. EPUB to audiobook conversion starts from the book's own table of contents: each chapter is joined from the files it spans, narrated in the voice you pick, and saved as an M4B audiobook with chapter marks and an MP3 per chapter.
EPUB to audiobook in four steps
From an ebook file to an audiobook with chapters.
Drop in the EPUB
Any DRM-free EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 file up to 100 MB: from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, your publisher or your own writing app.
EPUB to AudiobookDrop your EPUB here
epubwizard-of-oz.epub351 KBReview the chapter list
Chapters come from the table of contents, with clean titles. The title page, contents, copyright page and license start unticked.
EPUB to AudiobookChapters25 of 30 to narrate- The Wonderful Wizard of OzFront matter
- ContentsContents
- Introduction184 words
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzFront matter
Pick a narrator
Play the samples, then hear the first passage of your EPUB in the voice you choose, free and without an account.
EPUB to AudiobookNarrator
- LinneaRelaxed, US Southern
DashiellCalm, American
SuttonConfident, American
Download M4B and MP3
Save one M4B audiobook with chapter marks, cover and author, and a ZIP of chapter MP3s with matching tags.
EPUB to AudiobookThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz.m4b3 h 40 min · 25 chaptersZIPThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz MP3.zip25 MP3 files
Built for how EPUB files really work
Chapters, metadata and every word, carried from the ebook into the audio.
- IThe CycloneTrack 02
- IIThe Council with the MunchkinsTrack 03
- IIIHow Dorothy Saved the ScarecrowTrack 04
- IVThe Road Through the ForestTrack 05
- VThe Rescue of the Tin WoodmanTrack 06
Follow the table of contents
Chapter breaks come from the EPUB's navigation document or NCX, so they match the book. In books split into parts, every chapter inside each part gets a track of its own.
Words in the book
42,721
The chapters add up to the whole book
- 25 chapters read
- 39,486
- 5 sections left out
- 3,235
Join chapters that span several files
Many EPUBs split a long chapter across two or three files. They are read as one chapter, and a word count check proves the chapters add up to the whole book.
M4B- Title
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Author
- L. Frank Baum
- Narrator
- Linnea
- Chapters
- 25
Carry the cover and author over
The EPUB cover becomes the M4B artwork and the MP3 cover image, and the title and author fill in the tags, so the audiobook shelves itself correctly in your player.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
25 chapter marks
- 0:00:00Introduction
- 0:01:12Chapter I: The Cyclone
- 0:07:36Chapter II: The Council with the Munchkins
- 0:18:54Chapter III: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
- 0:29:54Chapter IV: The Road Through the Forest
Convert EPUB to M4B with chapter marks
The M4B holds both chapter formats players read, so chapters show up in Apple Books on iPhone and Mac and in audiobook apps on Android, with your place remembered.
One file with chapters
M4B with chapters, for Apple Books and most audiobook players
25 MP3 files
An MP3 per chapter in a ZIP, for publishing
Make EPUB to MP3 files too
The same narration also gives you one MP3 per chapter, numbered in order and levelled to audiobook loudness, for any player, car stereo or self-hosted library.
Stays in this browser
Sent for narration
The text of 25 chapters, 206,377 characters
Keep your ebook on your device
The EPUB is unpacked in your browser and never uploaded as a file. Only the chapter text you choose is sent for narration.
EPUB to audiobook guide
Where your EPUB comes from
Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks offer thousands of public domain classics as EPUB, ready to listen to at home. Authors can export an EPUB from Vellum, Atticus, Scrivener, Google Docs or Word, and it gives the cleanest chapter titles of any format.
Ebooks bought from a store usually carry DRM. The converter reads DRM-free files, which covers everything above and many independent stores.
How chapters are found
An EPUB is a small website zipped into one file: chapters live in separate HTML files, listed in a navigation document. The converter reads that list, maps each entry to its file and position, and gathers the text between one entry and the next.
Front matter such as the title page, dedication, contents and copyright page is labelled and left unticked, and the estimate shows what leaving it out saves.
- Project Gutenberg headerProject Gutenberg text
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzFront matter
- ContentsContents
- The Wonderful Wizard of OzFront matter
- Project Gutenberg licenseProject Gutenberg text
Left out: 5 sections, 3,235 words, about 21 min, saving 20 credits.
Rename or merge chapters in the list before you start; the new titles go into the M4B chapter marks and the MP3 names.
What goes into the M4B
The M4B carries the narration as AAC audio, the chapter marks in both formats audiobook players use, the cover, the title, the author and the audiobook media type, so it lands on the audiobook shelf rather than in music.
It opens in Apple Books, and in audiobook apps on Android and in self-hosted libraries such as Audiobookshelf, with every chapter listed.
- AAC narration
- 25 chapter marks
- Cover artwork
- Title and author
- Shelved as an audiobook
Converting an ebook to audio in Chinese
Chinese EPUB files work the same way, with chapter titles such as 第一章 kept as written. There are 6 Mandarin narrators to read them, and each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character counts as two when credits are worked out. EPUB to audiobook works the same way in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean, each with narrators of its own.
我们屋后有半亩隙地。
落花生 · 许地山
- Characters
- 10
- Billing characters
- 19
Credits and how long your files stay
EPUB to audio conversion costs one credit per 1,000 characters, so an 80,000 word novel takes about 450 credits, and you only spend credits on the chapters you get. The exact number appears before you start.
Your audiobook stays ready to download again for 30 days after it is finished, then it is deleted for good.
This book needs
207Credits
3 h 40 min · 206,377 characters
Start, 207 creditsWho turns an EPUB into audio
Classic lovers
Listen to Austen, Dickens or Twain from a Project Gutenberg EPUB, narrated by one steady voice from the first chapter to the last.
Self-published authors
Export your book as EPUB and hear it as listeners will, then share the chapter files with beta readers.
Home library keepers
Add M4B audiobooks with proper chapters, covers and authors to a self-hosted audiobook library.
Language learners
Follow an EPUB in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese or another of our 9 languages with its narration, chapter by chapter, to train your ear while you read.
Questions about EPUB to audiobook
Turn your EPUB to an audiobook
Start your EPUB to audiobook conversion: drop in the file, hear the first passage free, and keep the M4B and MP3 files.