Audiobook Creator 1.4
Device: Mac OS
Category: Music
Price: $6.99, Version: 1.3 -> 1.4 (iTunes)
Description:Audiobook creator is an app which enables the creation of audiobooks from ebooks. It converts ebooks to audiobooks using text to speech technology. You can listen to it on the go with a music player, smart phone or on your computer. The generated audiobook is the default iTunes MPEG-4 Audio Book file (m4b), and it can be used in iTunes, or transferred to ipod. iphones or iPad. The advantage of m4b file is iTunes, iPhone or iPad will always remember the audiobook track's position you listened unlike regular mp3 or m4a files, so you can always continue listening from where you left off.
-Converts ebooks to audiobook
-epub,pdf, ibooks, html, txt e-book files supported
-Creates default itunes formats so you can listen on mobile devices
-Lots of free and paid books available on the digital publishers website, and audiobook can handle all of them
-Sandboxed, no internet connection is required
-Reads only DRM free e-book files.
Audiobooks are great while commuting or when you have no time to sit down and read.
Audiobook creator uses text to speech technology provided by Mac OS X and it supports all the languages that are supported by Mac. Make sure to go to application preferences to select your desired voice for the language. Additional voices can be downloaded in system settings.
The ebooks have to be DRM free, otherwise it will not work. Currently it only supports epub ebook file formats. It is the most popular ebook format and there are lot of digital publishers who offer books in this format for free or paid. Please see the website for more about the publishers.
Large books will require more time to convert, but audiobook can handle any large size without any problem within 5 minutes.
To download additional voices from Apple, go to System Preferences -> Speech -> Text to Speech -> System Voice -> Customize... then choose additional voices to download (click 'OK' button). Once the download has completed relaunch you can use them with the app. OS X support these languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish , Swedish, Thai, Turkish.
This software is for your own personal use only, do not distribute the generated files by any means. We cannot be held responsible and/or liable for any mistakes or omissions in the exchange of data. Each ebook have its own copyrights, trademarks or patents. Please check the ebook what your rights are before converting the book.
What's New
small fix for ibook on sandboxed app
Audiobook Creator