I started searching the Net for options to narrate a book I have written. I found this video one of the most informative for the process and for understanding the potential of ElevenLabs.
I'm so glad!! Thanks for saying hello. If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
I ran some chapters of my book through the text to speech on eleven labs, and although it's impressive, it still sounds artificial. Looks like the 'narrate it yourself' and process later is the way to go. At least you can be expressive, consistent and exert more control over the output.
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I’d like to know when something better, less expensive, less time consuming comes along. $99 a month sounds like a money grab when the software is a hot mess. I can always tell when AI is reading when pronunciation is off. That doesn’t make for a good listener experience. Thanks for letting us know.
$99 is pretty cheap if you're organized - you only need it for a single month. I think it's doing a really fantastic job compared to where it was even six months ago and for authors who wouldn't otherwise be able to produce an audiobook it's a viable option now!
I heard you mention this a while back so I was super excited to watch this. I did some quick math. My manuscript is 92k words or 485 characters with spaces. The pro version gets you 500k characters per month (though it didn't specify if that was with or without spaces) for $99, so one month should do it. Google says it costs $30-$100/hour to rent a studio, so to create the recommended 3-hour sample, that's $90-$300 more. Even if you factor in the cost of editing that sample (another $75-$200/hour per Google) this process should be way cheaper than the cost of reading it yourself in a studio for 10+ hours plus the cost of post-production (editing, proofing, mastering). While I would love to read my book myself in real life, it's just so cost prohibitive, no?
It is a huge cost and time savings BUT you can't publish it widely right now so you are missing out on a lot of the benefits of producing an audiobook for the various platforms. This choice isn't going to be the right one for everyone but I think it's exciting that it's an option and if you wouldn't invest in an audiobook otherwise DO THIS because at least you'll have a version for people who will ask you! And when they can be published widely - and I'm sure that day will come - you have it ready! Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won!
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Thank you! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com
You can just edit and re-record each line and paragraph separately, so you don’t have to re-run the whole file. I converted my novel this way and found it very efficient, and I was still doing line edits in the weeks before I finished.
Yes then you have to edit the file together to make a full chapter if you don't just rerun the whole thing. Obviously a smarter thing to do if you are short on credits for the month but I was trying to do this the simplest way possible so I didn't have to work for hours and hours. :p Thank you!!
@@BookLaunchers No editing the file together needed, just re-run the Convert command at the end of your editing session and it resaves the whole chapter out with the new edits included. You can export each chapter separately, or the entire project together as one file, but the separate chapters are more useful anyway, as it allows the listener to stop and start as needed.
You are so welcome! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. You can grab it here: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
Interesting! As a fiction author, though, I’d worry that it wasn’t expressive enough. (Yeah, I’m technically not your target, but you’ve got useful info.)
Yes I agree - it would require more editing to bring it to life. This, to me, is an option if you weren't going to do an audiobook vs the replacement of an audiobook right now. :) Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won! Also - SATURDAY - our next Deep Dive is happening and it’s with Jim James on how to use podcast interviews in your author business (including how to get the interviews!) at 10am PST. The link to register is at: www.booklaunchers.com/deepdive
It's not easier to read it yourself and pay an editor ... editors are thousands of dollars. I still prefer the real version but this is a really cool option! Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won! Also - SATURDAY - our next Deep Dive is happening and it’s with Jim James on how to use podcast interviews in your author business (including how to get the interviews!) at 10am PST. The link to register is at: www.booklaunchers.com/deepdive
Loving this. Very interesting. I am with google play books on the audio side and on my 10th book changing it over to audio. In the beginning it was a struggle, until I contacted google play help. You get to pick what voice you want. Have you talked about google play books in audio yet?
No I haven't done anything with Google Play books. I was going to play with it soon though. We always use aggregators to go to them so I haven't done anything direct. Because the aggregators won't take my AI narrated book I will be going direct now. Just need to get some space in my schedule to get some playtime for these things!! :D
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Very very interesting. Thank you for doing this video. I feel inclined to think that going for the actual audio book creation could be the best bet right now but that the bot version will come along
Glad it was helpful! I think it's a great option for those that wouldn't have done an audiobook otherwise due to cost or effort required ... but my next book will still be narrated by human me.
This sounds super difficult. Thanks for the video. Keep up the great job. Top channel on RUclips 👍⭐️do you have a favorite audiobook website you recommend for debut authors
HEY!! Amazon doesn't let everyone do it - you have to be selected and I think it's mostly for fiction authors so far. It's also not your voice, you have to choose a narrator bot. Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won! Also - SATURDAY - our next Deep Dive is happening and it’s with Jim James on how to use podcast interviews in your author business (including how to get the interviews!) at 10am PST. The link to register is at: www.booklaunchers.com/deepdive
Thanks Julie. I wanted to ask if you've played with the free service that KDP offers where they take your eBook and using AI translates it into audio format for release on their platform. I'm still of the mindset that if/when I do an audio book I want to tell the story myself. All the best.
Amazon has not allowed me to do this with my book. It's an invite only and it seems most people invited have been fiction or Amazon Publishing so I haven't been able to play with it. I am more excited about voice cloning though. :p Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won! Also - SATURDAY - our next Deep Dive is happening and it’s with Jim James on how to use podcast interviews in your author business (including how to get the interviews!) at 10am PST. The link to register is at: www.booklaunchers.com/deepdive
You're welcome! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
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моля, кажете за някоя свободна програма. всички все искат пари. дори и да умре човек пак искат пари. трябва ми програма да клонира гласове за аудио книги, но свободна с над 10 000 символа
I love human narrated books the most! Thank you for commenting the day a video was released! Our next live is happening here on May 21st at 2pm PST - and we’ll be talking about the AI Author Advantage! You’ve been entered to win a prize for your comment so you’ll want to be on that live to find out if you won! Also - SATURDAY - our next Deep Dive is happening and it’s with Jim James on how to use podcast interviews in your author business (including how to get the interviews!) at 10am PST. The link to register is at: www.booklaunchers.com/deepdive
What nobody tells you is that even the best AI won't have intonation. Unless you pay for a seriously customized tool, the tone will be off. Have you tried to make your AI ask a question or pronounce something that is not a suggestion or admiration? AI is trained by marketing content that has been rampant online for decades (suggestion/command tone, don't, do, buy, get, grab etc) and by ehm... "admiring" tools (so pretty, so great, so rich, so nice, oh so perfect, so...) and it seems to lack normal speech data. Just try it in any language other that English and you'll see that it sounds extremely fake, even with your own voice. You can also test the trial version, which are supposed to be better. Even in English, with the majority of training data, AI voices sound wrong. Test it, and tell me if you think you can trust AI tools with your book. Unless, of course, you write one of those "get rich $$$ now!" books without real content and you don't really care.
I won't listen to author who does AI voice clone because I really hate the sound. I'd rather listen to the real human. And is taking income from professional artist. Nope.
It's not necessarily taking money from a professional artist if you would have narrated your book yourself OR not produced one because of the cost without this.
Absolutely true, however I would like to see a decent AI ebook to audiobook convertor! I hate listening to a series of books, then the author for whatever reason decides to only release the first few books in the series in audio!
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I started searching the Net for options to narrate a book I have written. I found this video one of the most informative for the process and for understanding the potential of ElevenLabs.
I'm so glad!! Thanks for saying hello. If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
Absolutely loving this. You just spared me hours of research and headaches. You earned a follower.
Thank you so much for saying hello!
If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
I appreciate all of the work you put into giving us helpful information.
Ai narration is going to be a dominant trend for cost efficiency reasons. There's no fighting against it.
Thank you, Julie, for all of your work!
You're welcome. Thanks for saying hello.
You're a pioneer, thanks for being in the trenches of this modern age new technology!
You're welcome! It's just getting better and better each day too!
I ran some chapters of my book through the text to speech on eleven labs, and although it's impressive, it still sounds artificial. Looks like the 'narrate it yourself' and process later is the way to go. At least you can be expressive, consistent and exert more control over the output.
Thanks Julie. I appreciate you so much.
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What an interesting video, Julie Bears! It was worth the hours it took to make. Very entertaining and insightful!
I’d like to know when something better, less expensive, less time consuming comes along. $99 a month sounds like a money grab when the software is a hot mess. I can always tell when AI is reading when pronunciation is off. That doesn’t make for a good listener experience. Thanks for letting us know.
$99 is pretty cheap if you're organized - you only need it for a single month. I think it's doing a really fantastic job compared to where it was even six months ago and for authors who wouldn't otherwise be able to produce an audiobook it's a viable option now!
I heard you mention this a while back so I was super excited to watch this. I did some quick math. My manuscript is 92k words or 485 characters with spaces. The pro version gets you 500k characters per month (though it didn't specify if that was with or without spaces) for $99, so one month should do it. Google says it costs $30-$100/hour to rent a studio, so to create the recommended 3-hour sample, that's $90-$300 more. Even if you factor in the cost of editing that sample (another $75-$200/hour per Google) this process should be way cheaper than the cost of reading it yourself in a studio for 10+ hours plus the cost of post-production (editing, proofing, mastering). While I would love to read my book myself in real life, it's just so cost prohibitive, no?
It is a huge cost and time savings BUT you can't publish it widely right now so you are missing out on a lot of the benefits of producing an audiobook for the various platforms. This choice isn't going to be the right one for everyone but I think it's exciting that it's an option and if you wouldn't invest in an audiobook otherwise DO THIS because at least you'll have a version for people who will ask you! And when they can be published widely - and I'm sure that day will come - you have it ready!
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I greatly appreciate this video! Thank you🤗
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I appreciate you. Thank you so much. I subscribed.
Thank you! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. As my gift to you - here it is in audiobook for free: dl.bookfunnel.com/d5dcdw2icq Or, you can grab it here in print: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com
You can just edit and re-record each line and paragraph separately, so you don’t have to re-run the whole file. I converted my novel this way and found it very efficient, and I was still doing line edits in the weeks before I finished.
Yes then you have to edit the file together to make a full chapter if you don't just rerun the whole thing. Obviously a smarter thing to do if you are short on credits for the month but I was trying to do this the simplest way possible so I didn't have to work for hours and hours. :p
Thank you!!
@@BookLaunchers No editing the file together needed, just re-run the Convert command at the end of your editing session and it resaves the whole chapter out with the new edits included. You can export each chapter separately, or the entire project together as one file, but the separate chapters are more useful anyway, as it allows the listener to stop and start as needed.
This was informative. Thank you!
You are so welcome! If you liked this video, and you’re looking for guidance to write your book you will LOVE my book: Self-Publish and Succeed. You can grab it here: www.selfpublishandsucceed.com or if you have a non-fiction book written and you’re looking at launch or post-launch marketing support, this is the book to read for that: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/ And you can even get it free in audio format here: selfpromoteandsucceed.com/audio
Interesting! As a fiction author, though, I’d worry that it wasn’t expressive enough. (Yeah, I’m technically not your target, but you’ve got useful info.)
Yes I agree - it would require more editing to bring it to life. This, to me, is an option if you weren't going to do an audiobook vs the replacement of an audiobook right now. :)
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Sheesh think it's easier to read it yourself. More authentic too.
It's not easier to read it yourself and pay an editor ... editors are thousands of dollars. I still prefer the real version but this is a really cool option!
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Loving this. Very interesting. I am with google play books on the audio side and on my 10th book changing it over to audio. In the beginning it was a struggle, until I contacted google play help. You get to pick what voice you want. Have you talked about google play books in audio yet?
No I haven't done anything with Google Play books. I was going to play with it soon though. We always use aggregators to go to them so I haven't done anything direct. Because the aggregators won't take my AI narrated book I will be going direct now. Just need to get some space in my schedule to get some playtime for these things!! :D
Exciting! 🎉
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Very very interesting. Thank you for doing this video. I feel inclined to think that going for the actual audio book creation could be the best bet right now but that the bot version will come along
Glad it was helpful! I think it's a great option for those that wouldn't have done an audiobook otherwise due to cost or effort required ... but my next book will still be narrated by human me.
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This sounds super difficult. Thanks for the video. Keep up the great job. Top channel on RUclips 👍⭐️do you have a favorite audiobook website you recommend for debut authors
Hi! Audiobook website? I personally use Audible and Book Funnel.
Gotta be in it to winit
fwiw amazon lets you autogenerate an audiobook now.
HEY!! Amazon doesn't let everyone do it - you have to be selected and I think it's mostly for fiction authors so far. It's also not your voice, you have to choose a narrator bot.
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Thanks Julie. I wanted to ask if you've played with the free service that KDP offers where they take your eBook and using AI translates it into audio format for release on their platform. I'm still of the mindset that if/when I do an audio book I want to tell the story myself.
All the best.
Amazon has not allowed me to do this with my book. It's an invite only and it seems most people invited have been fiction or Amazon Publishing so I haven't been able to play with it. I am more excited about voice cloning though. :p
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Thanks!
You're welcome!
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Julie Bot is no Julie Broad
THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT!!
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Thanks
Welcome
Blurring the lines of reality will become more commonplace.
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Good lord i think i am in love
With Julie the book bot?! :)
моля, кажете за някоя свободна програма. всички все искат пари. дори и да умре човек пак искат пари. трябва ми програма да клонира гласове за аудио книги, но свободна с над 10 000 символа
1:99 Oh, that’s hilarious! 🤣
🙏🏽 Thanks
You're welcome!!
I'll just narrate the whole book, even if it ends up being about 1000 pages, which it might.
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What nobody tells you is that even the best AI won't have intonation.
Unless you pay for a seriously customized tool, the tone will be off.
Have you tried to make your AI ask a question or pronounce something that is not a suggestion or admiration? AI is trained by marketing content that has been rampant online for decades (suggestion/command tone, don't, do, buy, get, grab etc) and by ehm... "admiring" tools (so pretty, so great, so rich, so nice, oh so perfect, so...) and it seems to lack normal speech data.
Just try it in any language other that English and you'll see that it sounds extremely fake, even with your own voice. You can also test the trial version, which are supposed to be better. Even in English, with the majority of training data, AI voices sound wrong.
Test it, and tell me if you think you can trust AI tools with your book.
Unless, of course, you write one of those "get rich $$$ now!" books without real content and you don't really care.
I won't listen to author who does AI voice clone because I really hate the sound. I'd rather listen to the real human. And is taking income from professional artist. Nope.
It's not necessarily taking money from a professional artist if you would have narrated your book yourself OR not produced one because of the cost without this.
Yeah, it's spineless behaviour honestly.
Absolutely true, however I would like to see a decent AI ebook to audiobook convertor! I hate listening to a series of books, then the author for whatever reason decides to only release the first few books in the series in audio!