Why an audiobook
Why did you decide to make an audiobook version?
To have another format available for purchase, an audio version. More and more people are choosing to listen to books rather than read them.
How he produced it
How did you produce it in Narration Box?
I first converted the book to a PDF version of my original files in Adobe InDesign, removing all hyphenated words as per your instructions. Also I maintained the chapters and if the chapters were too long, I split them up into sections.
“I was quite pleased to see that the conversion took care of emotional reading without the need for intervention and tagging!”
Harder or easier than expected
Was anything harder or easier than you expected?
I'm pretty tech-savvy. So, though the process was long, I took my time listening to everything that was TTS converted. Though Narration Box has the option of “tag emotion indicators”, I did not need it. I was quite pleased to see that the conversion took care of emotional reading without the need for intervention and tagging!
Working with our team
How has your overall experience with Narration Box been, including support from our team?
The overall experience was amazing, the support of the team incredible. I purchased the highest scale platform. When I was converting the files, I quickly ran over the words per month limit. So, I contacted Narration support and explained to them that the book was over 100,000 words. They generously waived their word limit 5 times and permitted me to continue the conversion. If they had not done this it would have taken at least 5 months to convert it to TTS. Because of their understanding and generosity, I was able to convert it in 5 weeks!