Turn text to speech with From Text t speech in to an mp3 of voice reading your words.

Create podbean account and post  text recording as podcast you can share and embed with podbean

Join reverbnation as artist go too digital distribution and add a release chose package

chose all or 6 from these
Convert text to this bit rate none compressed with this

Add after Altering name to remove the advert It may appear on the title

You should have all this done the page is payment page then your work is pending for a few days for review if there is a problem they say what to fix in review page and as I cost only 1 Dollar to publish single to six places it is nearly as cheap as free and you can share your work.  For all places including IHEARTRADIO it cost 9.00 dollars which is cheaper than CdBaby and less paperwork. This is easier of the two sites to use.

Audio books made easy


To make audiobook there are 4 ways 1 pay someone to read on Findaway voices
2 get a friend to read.
3 Read yourself.
4 or if you want to publish in places where a human voice is not a requirement like audible or findaway voices use http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ or ivona voices the best text to speech voices work with https://www.reverbnation.com/ and cdbaby sites where you can upload txt2speech reading of poems and stories to other sites. from text to speech good on youtube videos as audio and sound cloud they are directly uploaded.

Findaway voices site cost money to use unless you sign up with Draft to Digital first. But is free if you upload own voice files if you sign in with Draft to Digital first.
Then if you decide to get a pro reader it will cost money.
you need a cover for audiobook which can be made with canva, gimp, and or photoshop. gimp and canva are being free. Photoshop is a paid software.
It all matters what you have access to.
This being what menu for Findawayvoice audiobook making 
https://i.gyazo.com/872decef98af8269806f1c759f5291c9.png

Needed to be paid are tax and bank details.
but the book goes everywhere. including nook and kobo.
good if you want to buy the book yourself.
The audiobook needs to be added on fav in parts with a  promo ad which may be used by site uploaded to.

reverbnation and cbdbaby audio is made as one part without promo.

I am and have always been bad at reading aloud so I use find away voices a lot but they do go down sporadically but they come back. I am now in the process of reading a new book which I am putting on find away voices a short story.
As I said I have reading problems I am reading it in parts 1 (read)


A tall handsome man in a  black shirt and pants  with glasses sat in his dingy little office. He was scribbling on papers with some skill with a black quill and ink. He stopped when he heard his son Lance arguing with his assistant  outside the office.

2
"Go away Necromancer he's working!" Blake Alexander heard his assistant shouting. "But I have to see him it is important!" Lance shouted back. Blake got up walked to the door and opened it standing in the door way he asked why they were arguing.

3
"He wanted to disturb you from your important work," Dante, Blake's assistant said. Lance glared at Dante.
"But this is important!" said Lance.

and so on
it's good for editing out mistakes and not hard for me to compile and read.

I read that off allpoetry page  on a quiet divice and into another in this case a tablet with a good audio dictation
program.

I email myself the audio files to a computer and edit them with ocenaudio a good audio editor.

I created a file like this https://gyazo.com/165379a6a95f2136e5bbccd164ae0005
Copy and paste the parts together

another good thing about the reading in parts thing is you can find the parts for prom easier.

Testing online site  with audio editing software online https://audiotoolset.com/
edits
3D Audio
Auto Panner
Bass Booster
BPM Detector
Converter
Equalizer
Key Detector
Noise Reducer
Pitch Shifter
adds Reverb (room noise echo)
removes Reverb (room noise echo)
Reverse Audio
Spectrogram Image
Stereo Panner
Tempo Changer
Trimmer / Cutter
Vocal Remover
Volume Changer
Waveform Image







more tips


Draft to Digital
publish everywhere needs tax details to pay
sign up here to use findawayvoices for free

Findaway voices
make an audiobook of your books
they have readers or read yourself
read yourself is free to publish everywhere you can listen to your book on kobo app.
note they like audible where can publish need real voices not text to speech readers.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/ free audio editor good for editing audiobooks components.

Canva
https://www.canva.com/
free place to make book covers with royalty-free pictures
bit like photoshop with pictures
need to sign up to keep old work but it's free to use

UnSplash
https://unsplash.com/
another free royalty-free picture place


Gimp
https://www.gimp.org/ this can help make covers and resize cover too and it's a free it is an alterinative to photoshop.

Photoshop
also good for making book covers just costs to use.

Covervault
Not actually publishing a book but it is a useful site with useful mockups you can turn his mockups into you book with a little skill and photoshop.
https://covervault.com/



I point of note this is Audible's publishing site https://www.acx.com/  only residents of US, UK, Canada and Ireland can sell books on it but podcasts on some podcasting site allow podcasts to their site which has no country of origin so Australian run podcasts can be seen on Amazon and Audible such as this one from Podbean originally https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JJS4SR9/
and this which originates on soundcloud just redirected a bit. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K593K5N/ for podcasts recommended by me are podbean and spreaker podcast site.
https://www.podbean.com/
https://www.spreaker.com/
what you also need to do is convert sounds for audio books with the next site
https://online-audio-converter.com/
to the highest quality sound to be able to publish on find away voices etc.

amazon authors can sign up for own free book page with all kindle, Audible and Audible linked podcasts and other versions of their book published there, on also has  videos audios, blog or or podcast feeds link to the page
https://author.amazon.com/

example of authors page she is classical writer curated
https://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Burney/e/B001I9U1QK/ref=sxts_entity_h_bsx_s_def_r00_t_aufl?pd_rd_w=TVdZa&pf_rd_p=7b65f550-ae72-40a7-86e4-c165711b4536&pf_rd_r=QZCVVNM82NE05TY2A9T6&pd_rd_r=9098a064-77b5-4011-b995-170f81870ff8&pd_rd_wg=E1b07&qid=1638515135&cv_ct_cx=fanny+burney

other mine just a modern author run one
https://www.amazon.com/author/rachellawson

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