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 alway 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. A similar site is Edit.org-online editor found here https://edit.org/ you can make covers with images found there too. UnSplash https://unsplash.com/ another free royalty-free picture place I point of note this is Audible's publishing site https://www.acx.com/ only residents of us, uk, canada and Ierland 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 recommeded by me are podbean and spreaker podcast site. https://www.podbean.com/ https://www.spreaker.com/ 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 podast 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/Rachel-Lawson/e/B075M3TWJQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 more writers help https://allpoetry.com/poem/15984610-Author-advise--updated-version-of-all-in-one-page-from-my-website-by-The-Poette audiobook working notes example https://allpoetry.com/poem/16009914-Rogue-of-Honor-or-The-Assasin-reading-cut-edition-by-The-Poette