Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tesolian's voice modulation goes Audiobooks!!!

Let's learn about Audiobooks


What is Audiobook?
-An audiobook is a recording that is primarily of the spoken word as opposed to music. While it is
often based on a recording of commercially

-audiobook - A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an
abridgement of a book

-These are books that are read aloud and recorded on cassettes. There are also books on CD.

-audiobook - A sound recording of the text of a book. This can be a straight narration or a
dramatization of the text.


Ok..now let's look what I have..
-A collection of Voice modulation asssignment that we do during we're in 1st year,2nd sem
This was an assignment that being given by Dr Kabilan,he ask us to record our voice,narrating
a story,insert a background music, and save it on CD..


Ok..let's go to the process!!!

The tool that we need is
-iPod Nano 5G ( or any iPod that support the Audiobooks format
-iPod to USB cable for data transfer
-A collection of Audiobooks.. If you're don't have it,get any story books,read it,record your voice using the iPod voice recorder or any voice recording program such as Sony Sound Forge or Nero Wave Editor

The software that we use is

-Sony Sound Forge 9 ( for sound editing )
-iTunes 9 ( to transfer the Audiobooks to your iPod )
-MS Digital Image Suite 2006 ( to design the Audiobooks cover art )


The step is :
-Get any story books that you want to make it as a Audiobooks..just pick any such as fairy tales story,or English literature stories..

-Read the story,record the narration of what you read using the iPod voice recorder, or connect a headphone with a mic then record it using any sound recording/editing program such as Sony Sound Forge.

-Choose a a music,insert it as a background music, you can also add a sound effect where's possible according to the story

-Save it as MP3 format.

-Congrats. You already have your own voice modulation file's!!!


The "Audiobooks" process :

-Now open the iTunes 9. Drag the voice modulation that you do into the iTunes music library

-Right click on it,choose Get info

-Options, change the Media type from Music to Audiobooks. You can also edit the album or voice name on this part.

-Click OK.

-Now the file is currently save onto the Audiobooks type on the left part of iTunes.


-Connect your iPod, transfer the Audiobooks. Now the media can be browse on Music, Audiobooks.

-Congrats. You just have your first very own Audiobooks on your iPod!!!



Additional process...

Creating and designing the Audiobooks Album Art.
-Choose any Album Art size that you have
-Edit it, insert the details of the audiobooks such as title etc..
-Here is some of my design, that I created for Audiobooks collection...





Don't switch. Modify..Hehe

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