12/16/2023 0 Comments Read along audio bookI also reviewed Max’s and Pettarin’s instructions and eventually figured out that I had missed a step. Thankfully, I had the Pagina EPUB Checker, which worked very well for troubleshooting. It was a great skill to improve.Īfter my first attempt to add the audio, the image on the left shows the results of opening the EPUB in Readium. Instead of just copying and pasting, I modified an expression Max gave me since his was for single words only and I was doing it for each line of text. One step I improved was wrapping the text in its HTML elements. Pettarin’s post covers those details really well. It involves adding IDs to the HTML elements containing text for their corresponding segments of audio and making other changes in a OPF file. ![]() You can find the full process there, since it is rather complicated. Once I had my audio file, I followed instructions based on Alberto Pettarin’s post How To Create EPUB 3 Read Aloud eBooks, which covers the requirements for adding audio to an EPUB file. Once the labels were complete, I exported them to a text file where I could curate them for the EPUB files. This made the book easier since it meant I had fewer audio labels to make. Fortunately, I chose to split it up by line instead of by word. It was very tedious, but I was soon done (whew!). This meant listening to every segment of the audio and manually adding in a label for each line of text. I did the recording in Audacity, which worked very well.Īfter recording the audio, I had to make labels, or time markers, for each line in the book. I recording myself at the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies Digital Learning Commons (DLC), which did a fabulous job instructing me how to record! They are a fabulous resource for any student with any media project. It reminded me of the books I read in my childhood, so it instantly caught my attention and I decided to add audio to it. I eventually a Fixed-Layout EPUB called “Bella The Dragon”. Read-aloud functionality, however, only works on Fixed-Layout EBUBs, meaning it only displays correctly on a certain screen size. Most of the EPUBs I found were reflowable format, meaning they adjust to whatever screen size you view them on. At first, I thought any EPUB eBook would work. ![]() Finding an EPUB eBookĪrguably one of the hardest parts of this assignment was finding an eBook in EPUB format I could add audio to. Thanks to the instructions of my professor Max Troyer at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, I was ready to begin. So, when I learned about read-aloud eBooks recently in a multilingual desktop publishing class, I knew I had to try it. I’ve listened to several audio books, and they have become and important part of my education and literature. Through my teenage and adult years, I have switched to listening to audio books.
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