Local. Everything happens in this browser: your recording is turned into a voice right here, is never uploaded and is not kept. What is saved is a small voice profile, under 2 MB, never your audio, and you can delete it.
Starting.
1. Record
Say it like you are telling a friend, at the pace you want to be read to. A quiet room and a microphone close to you make a better voice.
This is my voice, recorded so yapbook can read my books to me.
I listen in the kitchen, on the train, and late at night when the house should be quiet.
Some chapters take three tries, but I just keep going and the good ones stay with me.
Your voices
Each one is a choice under Voice in the reader. Pick the one to listen to here; each can be deleted on its own.
2. Listen
Most people find their own recorded voice odd at first; it usually stops registering after a few sessions.
The opening of the reader's sample book, Einstein's Relativity (1920 translation). You can replace it with any text.
Hear a whole book in your voice This opens the reader on a sample book, already set to this voice. Press Play. Your voices stay in this browser, and your own books there read in them too.